Gartner: Social business software efforts largely unsuccessful, for now
Posted on January 29, 2013 at 17:38 PM EST
Many large companies are embracing internal social networks, but for the most part, they're not getting much good from them, according to analyst firm Gartner. By 2016, some 50 percent of enterprises "will have internal Facebook-like social networks," and 30 percent of these will be considered to be as crucial as email and telephones, a Gartner study announced on Tuesday states.