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Cisco Quad 2.5
Cisco takes social networking into the realm of real-time communications with a UC- and video-friendly collaboration platform, Cisco Quad, but its inward focus on Cisco customers ignores the mid-market and obscures the future of this new solution. (1/4/2012)
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Google+ (December 2011 Release)
Though new to the enterprise marketplace, Google+ greatly improves Google's stance opposite more established enterprise social networking platform vendors, but technological immaturity and limited support options will hold this solution back. (1/30/2012)
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IBM Connections 3.0.1
IBM continues to set the tone with IBM Connections, owing to the product's rich set of profile-centric features, tight ties with complementary IBM applications and value adds focusing on hot buttons such as social analytics and mobility. (1/30/2012)
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Jive 5
Jive Software is well positioned to grow its stature through an emerging application marketplace and a growing focus on social analytics and business outcomes, but the company has been slow to merge real-time and asynchronous collaboration. (12/13/2011)
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SP1
With an accelerating cloud business as well as improved rich profiles and event streaming capabilities, SharePoint 2010 is positioned to uphold Microsoft's dominant position within a collaboration market increasingly focused on social networking. (11/23/2011)
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Novell Vibe 3.2
Despite continued portfolio turmoil, Novell is pushing ahead with Vibe 3.2, improving integration options with GroupWise and adding native mobile client applications for both Apple iOS and Google Android. (4/20/2012)
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Salesforce.com Chatter Spring 2012 Release
Salesforce.com Chatter seeks relevancy within the enterprise social networking marketplace through a laser-like focus on event streaming and a viral, freemium marketing strategy aimed at both internal and external collaboration. (4/20/2012)
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Telligent Evolution 6.0, Enterprise 3.0 and Community 6.0
Telligent goes after the enterprise with a platform-centric philosophy of deep line-of-business application integration; together with its keen support for Microsoft environments, this sets the vendor apart within the social networking marketplace. (4/23/2012)
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Yammer Spring Release 2012
Yammer continues to disrupt the marketplace with a cloud-centric, freemium solution focused on enterprise-class requirements such as application integration, analytics, game mechanics, presence, and file sharing/editing. (5/4/2012)
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  • Product Strengths & Weaknesses
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Enterprise Social Networking Software and Services Product Metrics

  • Profiles
    • Rich profile
    • Custom profile attributes
    • Public and private profiles
    • Private/Direct messaging
    • User blocking
    • Group invitations
    • Follow feature
    • Connect with feature
    • Like feature
    • Follow/Like suggestion services
    • Organization/relationship browser managers, peers, etc.
  • Event Streaming Services
    • Event stream service
    • Event stream integration with external social networks
    • Customizable event stream dashboard
    • Event stream media supported
    • Event stream reposting allowed
    • Support for Twitter post conventions in event stream
    • Real-time event stream feed
    • Geolocation tool for event stream posts/profile
    • External notifications for event stream, blog, wiki, etc. posts
  • Applications and Integrations
    • Personal content store
    • Content (file) sharing
    • Rating facility
    • Search
    • Expertise location features
    • Bookmarking tool
    • Blogging feature
    • Wiki feature
    • Forum feature
    • Groups/Communities tool
    • Polling features
    • To do lists
    • Content submission via E-mail
    • Tagging
    • Tag taxonomy
    • Auto tagging
    • Presence capability
    • External directories supported
    • Synchronization with external directories
    • E-Mail/Calendar integration
    • Development Support
    • Activity Streams support
  • OpenSocial support
    • OAuth support
    • OpenID support
    • SAML support
    • API available for developers
    • UI customization/white labeling
    • REST API

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