Social Enterprise Software: $4.5B by 2016? (Part 2)

This is a follow-up post to Part 1 on the same topic.  If you have not read Part 1, I suggest you start there.  The chart below includes my assessment of the social enterprise software market.  The size of each bubble reflects my estimate on the size of each sub-sector, while the axes represent the relative […]

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Social Enterprise Software: $4.5B By 2016? (Part 1)

According to a recent report from IDC, social enterprise software will grow from $800 million in 2011 to $4.5 billion by 2016. Despite Facebook’s greedy IPO last May, and disappointing Q2 results from both Facebook and Zynga, social enterprise software is doing fine.  Six of the sixteen M&A transactions in the sector during the past 2.5 years occurred since Facebook’s IPO.  These six transactions totaled […]

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