Enterprise 2.0 SocNet

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet – Next Generation Collaboration & Knowledge Management Solution

ZSL’s Enterprise 2.0 SocNet is the Next Generation Collaboration and Knowledge Management solution for enterprises to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and interaction among its employees. ZSL’s SocNet solution provides the business managers access to right information at right time through collaborative platforms within and across the organization at inexpensive cost.

Our Collaboration and Knowledge Management solution built on Web 2.0 technologies can help your organization gain immense potential through knowledge promotion, thought exchange and innovation, turning out to bring huge business opportunity for your enterprise. Our SocNet solution can help your organization build social computing tools like Blog, Forums, Syndications and more through which you can express your organization’s vision, ideas, innovations, strategic value and leadership insights to the world. Our expertise in open source technologies and commercial products can help you build social computing portals at reduced cost.

Collaboration in Cloud (CiC)

ZSL has extended its Enterprise 2.0 SocNet, the Knowledge Management & Collaboration, offerings as service oriented cloud computing services. Our Knowledge Management & Collaboration is service enabled and enterprises can now avail Collaboration as a service (CaaS), which is cost effective and pay only for the utilized services. Our Cloud enabled Collaboration services are powered by WebSphere sMash and Amazon Web Services. The green savvy enterprises can now capitalize their knowledge pool using a virtual infrastructure at reduced capital expenses.

Our Collaboration and Knowledge Management solution for enterprises

• Connects knowledge assets at low cost investment
• Is a repository for harnessed knowledge capital and easily accessible for employees at all levels
• One time investment for knowledge dissemination
• Enables effective utilization of knowledge converted into value proposition action
• Brings productive collaboration at inexpensive cost
• Brings transparency across the enterprises
• Brings solution to a problem at one’s own desk
• Share your project status, new experiences among your peers at inexpensive communication cost
• Provide you and your employees a tool to expose talents, leadership qualities and innovative thoughts to the world at no cost investment
• Is secured and reliable social computing portal tailor made to meet your enterprise requirements

Features of Enterprise 2.0 SocNet

The social computing portal can be customized and tailored to the needs of your enterprise for collaboration with multiple networks, employees, customers, partners and suppliers for information sharing and interaction.

Social Networking

ZSL’s Enterprise 2.0 SocNet brings you an opportunity of knowing each other and networking with people of your common business interests. It makes your business stronger by enabling you to build a stronger social tie around your business demands.

Features

• View individual profiles
• Create open and private groups at all levels
• Group Invitations
• Personalized Invitations
• View Group Profiles

Discussion Forums

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet provides discussion platforms that connects and engages the employees across various geographical areas. It gives the advantage of breaking the monotony of one-to-one communication and gives an opportunity for your employees at any level to initiate or participate in discussion and share their ideas. User-based and permission-based forums for employees, customers, partners, closed groups, open groups to generate content, share knowledge and re-use at time of need across the organization.

Features

• Search through forum posts
• Attach files of any format .Doc, .XLS, .PDF, .JPEG, .GIF and more to a discussion post
• Download attachments from a forum
• Easy navigability to other forums
• Information on user’s permission levels
• Forum Statistics through dashboards
• Sorting discussions based on topics, date-wise, period-wise and more
• Common Announcements visible to all
• Email notifications about forum postings
• Forum Pagination

Blogs

With SocNet you can harness your corporate knowledge and create a corporate memory of this valuable knowledge. It acts as an information dissemination vehicle. The technical and management bigwigs can share their innovative ideas, leadership insights and acquaintance and thereby establishing a liaison with employees promoting for a healthy corporate environment.

Features

• Search through blogs
• Attach files of any format .Doc, .XLS, .PDF, .JPEG, .GIF and more to a blog post
• Download attachments from a blog
• Provision to post comments
• Statistics on blog entries and comments
• Forum Statistics through dashboards
• Sorting discussions based on topics, date-wise, period-wise and more
• Links to recent and most popular blogs
• Rating, Tagging and bookmarking
• Email notifications about blog postings

Enterprise Wikis

ZSL’s Enterprise 2.0 SocNet offers a collaborative workspace with a rich WYSIWYG editor, which enables anyone to create content that is visible to team members and available for editing and collaborative contributions. It also includes user voting to rank the value of wiki pages.

Personalized Home Pages

You can personalize your forum or blog or wiki to designs of your own interest. You have provisions to download widgets and through simple drag and drop capabilities create your own page style.

Enterprise Search

Another break through feature of Enterprise 2.0 SocNet is its Enterprise-class search engine that performs search through ASCII files of both HTML and text and enables to create index.

Compliance Management

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet provides audit log features to trace and track the user activities on their step-in and -out time.

Bookmarking

To connect your interests and expertise with your colleagues, Enterprise 2.0 SocNet offers you a simple and exuberant feature of bookmarking URLs. You can save URLs, that you think to be useful, as bookmarks and can share with others and as well as go through URLs bookmarked by your peers.

Survey

ZSL’s collaborative platform has an integrated Survey Management module to conduct surveys across the organization. This will help you to find out the employee, peer and customer consensus, preferences and opinions over a topic and to take mission critical decisions based on the survey results.

Instant Messaging

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet provides instant messenger that enables you to instantly interact with your peers, partners and customers invariably across the globe through chats. This promotes effective and efficient communication featured with immediate response or acknowledgement – all at inexpensive spending.

RSS Feeds

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet has features to auto generate feeds for a newly posted blog/forum, publish and subscribe to feeds, where access rights to publish or subscribe to feeds is profile-based. You can also syndicate feeds from external sources.

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet has a fully integrated administrator module to manage user and group access and permission levels to perform actions such as add, edit, delete, view, post comments, rating and more. The administrative user has provision to enable/disable a blog and approve/disapprove/edit a posted comment, news and events. This helps you to keep only authenticate information posted, secure your mission critical information and avoid spamming over the collaborative tools.

News & Events Management

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet serves as a complete secured collaborative solution with permission-based administrative access to publish, edit and delete an announcement, news or event. Thus you can leverage SocNet to disseminate mission-critical information and enunciate organization's insights to your employees, customers and partners through announcement and news.

Rich and Friendly User Interface

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet is built on Web 2.0 services enriched by rich concepts of AJAX, RIA, etc providing more rich and user friendly interface bringing in ease data handling and quick data refreshment.

Business Benefits

• Easy knowledge sharing beyond the boundaries
• Leverage learning through capturing knowledge and re-using it
• Knowledge as assets to drive innovations and nurture researchAccess to context sensitive data to employees at all levels of an enterprise
• Easy information sharing across and between the enterprises subjected to the IPR norms and business policies
• Receiving on-desk solutions for tricky questions
• Day-to-day update on what is going around at organization level, technology & business world through RSS and Email notifications
• Day-to-day update on new technology and business trends
• Deepened relationships and mutual trust for each other
• Discover and unveil hidden talent

Technical Benefits

• Framed on highly scalable, reliable, service and web oriented architecture
• Seamless integration with existing applications
• High performing APIs
• Easy customization in accordance to the interacting network
• Trustworthy secured interaction network
• Affluent user interface enabled through RIA, AJAX, Mashups, and so on
• Desktop experience on web through Identity Management
• Be provided as an integral component compatible to various technologies, tools and products
• Increased speed and heavy traffic handling
• Easy and faster implementation
• Minimal configuration procedures
• Minimal maintenance cost

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet Competency

Technologies

Java, Silverlight, ASP.NET, C#, Moonlight, Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash, Groovy, Javascript, XML, SOAP, Web Services, XAML, WPF, WF, Windows Card Space, PHP, VB.NET and more

Products

MS Visual Studio.NET, Eclipse, Biztalk Server, IBM WAS, IBM RAD, IBM WID, WS Process Server, WS sMash, MS Popfly, IBM QEDWiki, Adobe Flex, Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR, Eclipse, Microsoft Expression Web and more

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