Social networking applications may have got a bad rap in enterprises due to security scares, but according to a Gartner analyst, companies should begin building for these in the workplace because they are here to stay.In fact, Andrew Walls, Gartner research director, said the research firm expects online environments such as social networks and virtual worlds to become “the base infrastructure for businesses and personal interaction in the future”.
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