Enterprise 2.0 by Concursive, Part 1

Posted by Matt Rajkowski on February 23, 2010, 10:45 AM EST

I just read Enterprise 2.0 by Andrew McAfee and when a smart guy tells you, "healthy and valuable online environments are likely to result when using emergent social software platforms," your organization should heed his advice because he's seen it work over and over again.  In fact, he coined the term Enterprise 2.0.  If there's any doubt, just read his book.  There's much to digest, so let me get to the point, as Andrew McAfee says, "Enterprise 2.0 is ultimately the result of a large number of individual choices about which technologies to use for communication, collaboration, and interaction."

So what Concursive did is put their heads together many years ago with some of the minds in the industry who care about collaboration and social networking to deliver something that ensures that a core social networking platform will keep advancing in ways that no single company can.  Concursive open sourced years worth of work and has already seen the vision of sharing this platform come to fruition.  So, while Concursive's ConcourseConnect doesn't do everything that every other social networking platform does, it does the important stuff well, it advances in many areas, and it innovates in others… ultimately you have a choice, and you can tailor and adapt the platform to your needs, as many other companies have already done today.

Once your organization has made the leap to learn more about using online collaboration, you ought to become familiar with the realities of available collaboration software.  So in the next part in this blog series I'll describe the benefits of using ConcourseConnect and begin to compare ConcourseConnect with other workplace solutions.  Based on Dion Hinchcliffe's Map of the 2009 Enterprise 2.0 Marketplace I've chosen to use a product from Jive Software, called Jive SBS, as the basis of my comparison.  Jive SBS is among a number of companies in which Dion has categorized in the 'Enterprise 2.0 Sweet Spot.'

Stay tuned for the upcoming review.

Update: The comparison between Jive SBS and ConcourseConnect has been posted.