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ECM: Vendors Add Social Features
ECM vendors are following the trend of the successful commercial web-based applications by adding social features to their software products. Part of the move towards greater social networking and collaboration is because email has become overwhelming for many people and people are looking for alternatives. Pressure is also coming from many younger employees who have become used to being able to easily share their personal content and photos using applications like FaceBook and MySpace, and they are looking for something similar in the work place.
Later this month Open Text will be adding blogs and forums to their Open Text Enterprise 2.0 solutions offered in their ECM Suite.
Version 2.0 of IBM’s Lotus Connections added features like profiles, communities, bookmarking and activities. After that release last year, coincidence or not, the product doubled the client base. Now an up-coming 2.5 release of Lotus Connections will include wikis and a personal “wall” space. IBM is also planning to include some social networking capabilities from their social software research project called Beehive.
EMC’s Documentum added social networking capability with their 6.5 release.
Alfresco 3.x and the new Alfresco Share application brings together a wide variety of social networking capabilities. Share lets you create Project Sites from which you can invite users. There are features for Calendaring, Document Management, Blogging, Wiki, and Discussions.
