May 11th, 2009 |
Cubetree launched a free collaboration suite designed to bring the capabilities of Facebook to the enterprise. But Cubetree’s offering goes a bit further that social computing by integrating more traditional collaboraton capabilities such as file sharing, as well as Web 2.0 services such as blogs and wikis into a complete SaaS-based collaboration offering. There’s a trend here, underscored by commercial products such as Telligent Community Server and IBM Lotus Connections to bring Facebook-like capabilities to the enterprise market, but where is Facebook itself in all of this?
Facebook cannot get into that field, because its brand is associated with the idea of a casual & personal platform. Business has to be more professional. And there is always the security issue - not sure how much my CEO would trust to have confidential conversation on facebook.
That’s why corporations prefer tools like Present.ly or Yammer. These tools are built to be used in the enterprise. I am not familiar with Cubetree, but checked out its comparison chart on cubetree webite. Very surprised to see that the chart does not include Present.ly since everybody knows that Present.ly is one of the leading apps in this field. Wondering if they are missing major features that Present.ly offers.
I am a huge fan of Web 2.0 tools in the workplace - great way to invest small amount of money to get huge returns.
Re: the Tags on : Another “Facebook for Business” Offering - could you please correct the spelling on Social Networking? (you have Social Neteworking)
That will tidy up our tags over here, too…
Thanks….
Fixed - thanks for pointing that out!