Instead of adding social features to each business critical application one by one, a social layer enables applications to openly broadcast their events to an integrated activity stream where people across the entire company can benefit from the information.
6. What Is A Social Layer?
When Social Is Just A Feature
People
Content
Events
People
Content
Events
People
Content
Events
CRM ERP CMS
Business Process (SSO, LDAP, etc)
When Social Is A Layer
People
Content
Events
CRM ERP CMS
Business Process (SSO, LDAP, etc)
7. Activity StreamEnterprise Applications
CRM
ERP
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Socialtext Connect - Events
With all this openness and sharing…vast amounts (flood) of information
Slide about this transitioning to these “consumer accepted principles in the business world
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