The
Gartner Report was generated as a study of an elite group of Social Networking
Software Companies. The groups surveyed
represent Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant” of companies who are best positioned to capture
market share within Enterprise Social Networking. I am pleased to write that Blogtronix was featured
in this report! This means that we meet
an extremely detailed list of specifications, which fall into a substantial
number of unique categories (User/Group Management, Software/Saas Offering,
Support, etc.). Below, I have included a
few excerpts from the report, with my own comments.
Gartner
did a great job in pin-pointing some of Blogtronix’s many strengths:
“Blogtronix offers a much-improved product with broad collaboration and
social interaction support. It is quick
to install and use, with multiple deployment options.”
One
Particular portion of the report reads:
"In general functional boundaries in
different products are constantly broadening and that there are very few
"pure" products. Most offer a blend of different capabilities and we
expect that successful products will continue to assimilate new functionality -
such as:
-user social tags,
-social bookmarks,
-social network analysis,
-social network
visualization,
-content feeds,
-people search (expertise
location),
-content rating,
-reputation management and
-alerting.
From this list of the "9 factors crucial to
success" for Social Networking companies, Blogtronix offers, and has
always offered ALL of the mentioned factors. This report only helps
confirm that we are positioned to cater to many applications ranging from
business collaboration to open ended social networking.
Read On: The Gartner Report specifically lists its
requirements to be considered a part of this “Magic Quadrant”. Quite the list isn’t it?
-It is a product that is packaged, marketed, and sold independently
(that is, not offered as part of a bigger suite or offering).
-The primary use of the product as advertised in marketing material and
as demonstrated in actual use is for supporting general collaboration and
social interaction; and that its use is not
limited to a specific industry or business process (such as project
management, learning or training).
-There are at least 50,000 users (seats) in total in production; and at
least 3 named customers, each with 1000 or more users (seats).
-It is a product with the following minimum functionality:
user
management: ability to create, modify, or retire user
accounts
user
profiles: information about each user can be accessed by
other users
roles
and access control: support for multiple roles
(e.g. editor, facilitator, community manager, moderator) with associated access
controls
configurable
group, project, team or community areas:
end-users with the right permissions can create themed areas for a group,
project, team, or community
document
sharing: ability to upload, store, organize and share
documents
discussion
forums: support for a persistent environment to post
questions and answers or to have general discussions
blogs:
end-user instant publishing functionality that
displays entries in reverse chronological order and permits comments from
others
wikis: group authoring of collections
of pages with support for ‘click-to-edit’, change tracking, and internal
linking
Blogtronix
continues to be a leading supplier of such functionality. However, at this point in our product
development cycle, such tools (Blogs, Wikis, Document Manager, etc.) remain at
the core of our platform, but only represent a fraction of our capabilities in
social media.