Nemertes Unified Communications and Collaboration Market Analysis: Social
Computing

Social computing is making the transition from the consumers to business as the
functions provided become standardized and as businesses are beginning to see
potential value from investments in such technology. Social computing applications include such
things as blogs, wikis, shared workspaces, but the common theme is to
facilitate idea generation and content development in the increasingly
dispersed business environment.

This market analysis discusses the key trends in the evolution of social
computing as applied to business and shows how social computing tools are
divided into two large areas of interest: collaboration and
productivity. Each is further examined and the various features and
function available are discussed.

Included in this market analysis is a detailed matrix describing offerings
from vendors, including product features, scalability, architecture, and key
competitive differentiators.

Vendors covered in this market analysis include:

Atlassian, blogtronix. Collanos, Communispace, Connectbeam,
CustomerVision, FirstClass (OpenText), Google, Grovesite, IBM/Lotus,
Jive Software, Leverage Software, LongJump, Mzinga, Microsoft,
MindTouch, NearTime, Oracle, OutStart, Ramius, Novell (SiteScape),
SixApart, SocialPlatform, SocialText, Suite Two, Telligent, ThinkFree,
Traction Software, and Twiki

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