How Digital Collaboration is Fragmenting, and Why It’s a Major Opportunity - Enterprise Irregulars

Excerpt from a timely collaboration market reality check

"Certainly, some of the latest additions to the industry pool of collaboration options — and yes, I’m talking about Slack here — are designed specifically to address this issue, as it becomes one of the largest — and most ironic — new obstacles to effective collaboration: Too many apps and channels for working, none of which share well with each other. Solutions like Slack make all the knowledge and content flowing through our many individual business applications, visible from one collaboration platform. And that’s certainly one major way to solve the problem. Certainly, approaches like OpenSocial have tried to tackle it in other ways, and now the W3C Social Web Working Group is looking at the issue as well. So perhaps we’ll still end up with an SMTP for collaboration, but we don’t have it yet."

How Digital Collaboration is Fragmenting, and Why It’s a Major Opportunity - Enterprise Irregulars