Abstract: Systems and methods that interact with an enterprise clipboard are described. One example system embodiment includes logic to acquire an object item and logic to acquire information about the object item. The information may be metadata and/or contextual information. The example system embodiment includes logic to create a context associated with the object item. The example system embodiment includes logic to selectively provide to an enterprise clipboard the object item along with information about the object item so that the receiver of the object item and the information about the object item does not receive just data.