Social Software - Apps Rating

Yammer is revolutionizing internal corporate communications by bringing together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network. Although Yammer is as easy to use as consumer products like Facebook or Twitter, it is enterprise-class software built from the ground up to drive business objectives.

Jive’s enterprise social networking platform allows you to engage employees, customers, and the social web. Increase the efficiency of internal communication, build brand loyalty, and monitor customer chatter and ideas, all from one central location. Say good bye to your intranet, multiple logins for scattered enterprise apps, and being out of the loop; the Jive Engage platform integrates the social networking tools you love and need so you can focus on what matters.

With Chatter, it’s easy to work together and know everything that’s happening in your company. Updates on people, groups, documents, and your application data come straight to you in real-time feeds

NewsGator Social Sites is a social software for business that works with SharePoint and helps to create rich social profiles, share ideas and expertise, and effectively communicate with colleagues using all of the most promising features from consumer social networking and community software.

Socialcast creates a flexible, simple, data-rich collaborative space where employees can find information from applications, systems, and people across the enterprise.

Enterprise social software with the fastest business value. With Socialtext, everyone knows what’s going on. People and teams are synchronized, engaged and informed. Socialtext provides a broad social software platform that has the ease of SaaS and the security of an on-site appliance. You get a quick deployment that focuses on your people, not on the software code.

IBM Connections is social software for business that lets you access everyone in your professional network, including your colleagues, customers, and partners.

Drupal Commons is the better way to social business. The only [open alternative] social business software, Drupal Commons is the social layer in the enterprise that drives customer loyalty, employee efficiency, and bridges the social web — all at a lower total cost than proprietary solutions.

Google Wave is a web-based computing platform and communications protocol, designed to merge key features of media like e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. Communications using the system can be synchronous and/or asynchronous, depending on the preference of individual users.

IBM Lotus Quickr is team collaboration software that can help you access and interact with the people, information, and project materials you need to get your work done.