The Socialtext Enterprise Collaboration Platform

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1 The Socialtext Enterprise Collaboration Platform Socialtext transforms business processes and organizational culture by bringing real-time collaboration to the enterprise. By unlocking knowledge, expertise, ideas and information, Socialtext helps to eliminate organizational silos. The result? Improved productivity. Better performance. Faster innovation. In terms of generating content and sharing information quickly, there s really no comparison to Socialtext. Tim Kelly, Director of Engineering McKesson Collaboration drives results. Socialtext s enterprise collaboration platform, including microblogging, activity streams, blogs, rich text editable webpages (wikis), profiles, video, and social spreadsheets, provides simpler ways for employees to work together in real-time and increases the velocity of information flow within and between teams, departments, and business partners. Socialtext creates a virtual workspace where teams can work together as effectively as if they were co-located because the information and colleagues they need to work with are always available. With Socialtext, organizations gain a sustainable competitive advantage by collectively sharing insights and learning faster than their competitors. Built on a flexible, web-oriented architecture hosted in the cloud, Socialtext integrates with traditional systems of record, such as CRM and ERP, enabling companies to collaborate and take immediate action on key business processes. Socialtext deployments deliver measurable improvements in many business functions across the enterprise, such as HR and learning, communications, sales and marketing, product management, IT and customer support.

2 Key Features and Benefits Customizable Dashboard Collaborative intranets are the cornerstone of company-wide collaboration. The Socialtext Dashboard is a customizable start page, which displays the information that matters to you, all in one place. Share status updates, discover popular content, and connect with the people who can help you get your job done. Real-time activity streams provide an aggregated view and cross-functional visibility into people, projects, resources, topics, conversations, applications and data needed most often, all in one place. Additionally, Socialtext enables contextual discovery of relevant content through the activity of colleagues. We run all our projects on Socialtext. It enables my company to not only release more CDs per year, but also execute without things slipping through the cracks. Thanks to Socialtext, we re collaborating better than ever. Brett Gurewitz, Founder and CEO Epitaph Records Socialtext allows your teams to collaborate in either private or open group dashboards. Functional teams or project members access one dynamic page that greatly reduces time spent providing updates, while enhancing visibility into project status. As group members update their work, activity feeds automatically alert other team members to changes. Networking Unify your workforce through an open and vibrant environment that connects colleagues to each other and to their work. Socialtext profile pages enable people to learn about their peers, their contact information and skills, the content they create, the groups they belong to, and more. Groups - both open and private - let members organize and build project teams around common skills, experience, interest or theme and work together in a secure community. Open communication enables idea sharing to flourish. Socialtext offers a rich idea management toolset, including Idea Creator, Idea Tracker, and Idea Voting, enabling employees to more effectively share ideas and collaborate with peers, resulting in better solutions to business challenges.

3 Socialtext encourages peer mentoring by pairing experts with employees to collaborate and complete a certain project, task, idea definition, or leadership development goal, empowering your workforce with greater skills and opportunities for career growth. Content Creation and Sharing Socialtext s web-based content creation tools enable teams to work together, creating pages that are available for everyone to contribute to and benefit from. From rich text editable web pages (advanced wiki) to online spreadsheets and blogs, valuable information is always updated and no longer locked away inside individual inboxes. Socialtext is core to our success. Support says they can t live without it. Don Smith, VP of Global Support OSIsoft Getting content in and out of Socialtext is simple. Workspace page content is easily created from s or via copy/paste from Microsoft Word, PDF, or web pages, and is editable within Socialtext. It is also easy to Socialtext page content to a colleague or group of colleagues, or export a workspace page to a Rich Text Format Microsoft Word document or PDF. Widgets can be embedded for views into dynamic content. Track and report on content usage trends and display this information on the dashboard, illustrating user preferences as a measure of engagement, social sentiment, and interest. Alerts can be easily set up to notify users of important information on a periodic basis. Advanced Search Advanced Search allows all content, including text within attachments, to be searchable via keywords or phrases, and makes it easy to find documents and files within just a few clicks. Historical information is never lost and is always accessible through revision history, including the ability to restore previous content easily. Interactive Video Socialtext s unique, robust video integration provides the ability to record, host, and stream video to various devices, comment and share, search

4 videos to precise moments, and embed third party videos via prebuilt widgets. In addition, resources related to the video content, such as PowerPoint presentations, Word, and.pdf documents, can be included to enhance knowledge transfer. Social Blender Consolidate all of your company s social media channels Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and RSS into a streaming news ticker to keep your employees informed about your company strategy, announcements, and up-to-the-minute news. Simply press pause when you find something of interest and click to read the latest. Deploy the Social Blender to your company dashboard or select groups, such as Sales, Marketing, or Communications. Embed External Web Content Embed Twitter account posts into a widget, RSS feeds from your favorite blogs, and YouTube or Vimeo videos directly within Socialtext microblog (Signals) posts or workspace pages. You can also embed Google Maps, Google search results, and even external webpages into your Socialtext workspace pages. Integration with Socialtext Connect Easily integrate your CRM, ERP, HR, and content management systems within the Socialtext platform to collaborate across data from multiple systems. Socialtext Connect provides out-of-the-box integration with tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, Salesforce.com, and Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions. Our ReST API makes it easy to connect to other enterprise platforms as well.

5 Anywhere, Anytime Access Socialtext is accessible any time from multiple platforms such as the web, mobile devices including native app support for ios and Android devices - or your desktop client. No matter where you are, you ll always be able to access your critical business content, and connect and share with your peers. Empower your employees to access information, contacts, stay in the loop on project status changes, and make necessary updates from anywhere, anytime. Get Started Today For more information, visit or contact the Socialtext sales team at sales@socialtext.com. To get started with a free 30-day trial now, visit Some of our customers: About Socialtext Established in 2002, Socialtext, a Bedford Funding portfolio company, was the first company to deliver social software to businesses. By unlocking knowledge, expertise, ideas and data, Socialtext eliminates information silos across the enterprise to drive superior business performance. Socialtext s enterprise social networking products including microblogging, blogs, wikis, profiles and social spreadsheets provide simpler ways for employees to share vital information and work together in real-time.