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Avoiding the enterprise social surprise

10-Nov-2010

Tags: Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software, Implementation, Industry Events, Marketplace at Large

In talking to customers for our Collaboration and Social Software evaluations, we've seen many of them struggle to take departmental or smaller-scale pilots to enterprise-wide deployments.

Organizational challenges to enterprise-wide collaboration and social networking systems are well documented. What's less well known are the technical hurdles confronting customers looking to extend to enterprise-wide deployments. We've recently isolated ten common shortcomings you might encounter with vendors large and small. From yesterday's release:

    Customers should remember that many of these products matured in departmental environments, so in addition to investing in essential governance, adoption, and education programs, organizations seeking to support enterprise-wide collaboration and networking should carefully simulate large-scale conditions before committing to any single vendor.

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