Enterprise Collaboration Software - Opinions & Reviews

Question

Is there anyone out there working for an organization that uses an enterprise collaboration software? What is your opinion about it? How does it perform in the following areas:

• Integration with a Document Management System(s)
• Ability to have many different kinds of sources for feeds (for example code checkins notifications, sharepoint notifications, company news etc). Ability plug in new sources of feeds?
• Searching/Filtering of information
• Ability to create "Project Pages" to share and collaborate with other team members
• Useful for different disciplines within the company such as Engineering, Product Development, Sales etc

Some of the software out there include:

• CubeTree
• Jive
• Yammer
• Social Text
• Google Wave

If anyone has experience using any of these within the enterprise, I would love to hear about it.

Thanks,

Jaspreet

Answer 1

I will be giving a presentation on this very subject at 1 p.m. CST on March 11, 2010 at an IASA ITARC E-Summit. This is a peer level knowledge sharing session for architects looking to roll out an ECM solution so no "marchitecture" and no product pitch. Registration is free and you attend from your PC so no airline tickets to buy.

Answer 2

I would actually say that the five options you listed above aren't robust enough for the enterprise. They don't offer all the features you'd like to see, or offer smaller versions of those features that can be outgrown in the enterprise.

If you are a smaller company using tools for collaboration and communication, those tools like Yammer and Social Text may help. However, try to find a solution more like OnePlace for deeper collaboration and managing work. Solutions like that offer all the features you need, and can bring teams together successfully.

Answer 3

It seems people mostly use email to collaborate on projects, even when there is a web-based PM tool available in the organization, so I think solutions like Google Wave could be a quite natural extension of that model.

http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ms-outlook-email-tasks-google-wave/