Thursday, July 26, 2012

What is Social Portal - Social everywhere

Social networking is buzz these days. We see social networking all around in Internet, Mobile and even through television.
everyone is running after facebook, twitter and linked-in.

Around 3 years before IBM has started thinking in direction of using Social networking and Social knowladge in business.

Collective knowledge is very much useful to take right decision and it really helps if you get social information right in the place and context when you actually need it.

In a situation like you are interest to purchase a product from any webspace, It always helps to see social aspect of that product right in the place where you need, which means just when you want to select product.

available social tools are like, blogs, wikis, activities, bookmarks, files, profiles and forums helps you to gather more and more information around the product you want to select.

IBM Collaboration suite contains two primary product to provide Social aspect in your business.
these two IBM products are
1. IBM WebSphere Portal Server
2. IBM Connections

Here we all know IBM WebSphere Portal server is composite application plateform, which can used in B2B, B2C scenarios very well. Its used for both Intranet and Internet both.

IBM Connections, Is a social tool helps in effective collaboration. and has capability to connect with many other products like IBM WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes, Lotus Sametime, Microsoft outlook, Sharpoint etc...

The best combination for Social everywhere is IBM WebSphere Portal + IBM Connections which are connected with fully equipped portal plugins (portlets).

These portlets are well connected to each other and portal search center.
These portlet can be used in connection with any-other business application to inject social aspect of that business into webApplication, which helps in knowledge discovery and better decision making.

Recently IBM Connections 3011 version and coressponding plugin portlets are released.
These portlets are available in IBM Catalog and can be downloaded to provide social capability on you existing portal assest.

In addition to portlet war, IBM also release DevKit (Developer Kit) using this devKit business owner can modify existing functionality to best fit in their environment.

These portlets are IBM Web Experience Factory based, which easy to use and helps creating dynamic applictions and portlets quickely even without having much knowledge of  portal/Portlet Java J2ee.

in subsequent post i will unlease other important capabilites of social everywhere.
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