I had the pleasure of seeing a private pre-launch demo of the new Socialtext 3.0 a couple of weeks ago, and am delighted to finally be able to share my excitement about this latest offering from this veteran vendor in the world of collaborative communications.
Socialtext today announced and delivered Socialtext 3.0, a trio of applications including Socialtext People and Socialtext Dashboard, as well as a major upgrade to its enterprise wiki offering. The new version includes the following new features and upgrades:
Socialtext Dashboard — personalized and customized dashboards to manage attention across internal and external social network updates, conversations, data, and applications. The alert feed of your colleagues’ activity provides attention management with work context and relevance. Since Socialtext Dashboard supports the OpenSocial gadget standard, users can select widgets from a large library provided by Socialtext as well as from third parties, and arrange them with a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Socialtext Workspace — This significant upgrade promises dramatic usability enhancements, improved navigation, tight integration with Socialtext Dashboard as well as Socialtext People, and continued advances for IT administrative efficiency and directory integration.
Socialtext People (optional module available to platform customers) — social networking adapted for the enterprise. Profiles and a user directory make it easy for colleagues to describe themselves and discover implicit and explicit expertise. People can subscribe to the activity of colleagues. Tagging enables users to declare interest and expertise on their profile and others’ profiles, making group forming simple and powerful. Throughout the Socialtext wiki, Profiles are made visible so at any time you can pivot to the people behind the content. Integration with LDAP and Active Directory means companies will be able to make their corporate directories social.
Socialtext Signals — provides “safe and secure messaging with context.”
Socialtext will make all of its offerings available on a hosted ASP as well as an on-premise appliance basis. The entire Socialtext 3.0 trio of products is available immediately on the hosted service, and will be made available to appliance customers starting in October 2008.
Further information is available here.
