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Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software Vendors

The 488-page Enterprise Collaboration & Social Software Report evaluates 25 solutions, comparing them head-to-head within each category.

Platform Vendors

These are behemoth software vendors that arrived belatedly but with some force to the social software landscape. They are also among the pricier offerings.

  • IBM: IBM Connections
  • Microsoft: SharePoint 2010 - ECSSR
  • Oracle: Oracle WebCenter

Major Suites

These vendors provide multi-dimensional services and often attempt to compete directly with the Platform vendors.

  • Acquia: Drupal Commons
  • BroadVision: BroadVision Clearvale
  • Cisco: WebEx Social
  • Google: Google Apps
  • Jive Software: Jive Social Business Software
  • Socialtext: Socialtext
  • Telligent Systems: Telligent Enterprise

Smaller Suites

Smaller, privately held vendors that offer an array of different social software services, but individually, they come to this space with a particular background in one application or another, which typically remains their core strength and orientation.

  • blueKiwi: blueKiwi Suite
  • Igloo Software: Igloo
  • Moxie Software: Collaboration Spaces
  • ThoughtFarmer: ThoughtFarmer
  • Traction Software: TeamPage

Specialist Players

These are primarily standalone blog and wiki software packages. Nearly all of the other vendors in the tiers above offer these services, but they generally pale in comparison to what you would find in these dedicated tools.

  • Atlassian: Confluence
  • MediaWiki: MediaWiki
  • MindTouch: MindTouch
  • Six Apart: Movable Type
  • WordPress: WordPress

Social Enterprise Layers

These are add-on services for existing applications that attempt to "socialize" an established digital business environment.

  • Microsoft: Yammer
  • NewsGator: NewsGator
  • Salesforce.com: Chatter
  • TIBCO Software: tibbr
  • VMware: Socialcast

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