Connectbeam News
Connectbeam announces the latest upgrade of its enterprise social networking platform & services
Mountain View, CA (June 16, 2009) -- Connectbeam, a leading provider of enterprise social networking applications, today announced the immediate availability of its Social Activity Platform and Applications version 3.2.
"Release 3.2 puts us at the heart of enterprise social software ecosystem. With our advanced event-based web services API & connector framework, we can now integrate to any number of data sources – Enterprise 2.0 as well as traditional enterprise apps – to mine and store social activity streams and implicit user interactions from across the enterprise," said Sridhar Kunisetty, the Chief Architect at Connectbeam. "Connectbeam 3.2 lets users see information as it is being generated and connect with knowledge-workers around projects, research, and interests using tools they are already familiar with."
Recent upgrades and feature enhancements will greatly improve usability and performance; providing a tighter integration with existing IT infrastructure and corporate applications such as Microsoft Sharepoint, Outlook, Atlassian Confluence and Jive Clearspace. Major enhancements in this release include:
- Lucene Search Engine Integration: Utilizing Lucene Search Engine to boost Connectbeam Social Search capabilities and allow for more flexibility, faster and more relevant social content and expertise discovery.
- Content Voting: Rate user generated content, aggregated from various E2.0 apps directly from Connectbeam application
- User Profile Enhancements: Users’ expertise, past projects and interests could be used as filters to find related people.
- Newly designed User Management Interface: Manage day to day user administration activities such as add, remove, disable, and activate users and related UI improvements
- Enhanced Web Services APIs & Connector Framework: Introducing advanced social search APIs along with a new set of published REST-based APIs to capture and retrieve users’ social activity streams
- Event Management Infrastructure & Performance Improvements: More optimized and fine-tuned schema design to capture and retrieve social activity content and event streams
Customers can review and examine the new release functionality by registering with our hosted Test Drive environment before upgrading to the new release, or directly download the Connectbeam Social Activity Platform and Applications from Connectbeam website for a 30-day free trial. New customers can also purchase Connectbeam physical appliance models (CB-1000, CB-5000, and CB-9000) by contacting sales@connectbeam.com.
A quick product tour of Spotlight is available at: http://www.connectbeam.com/demo/tour/connectbeam_tour.html
About Connectbeam
Founded in 2006, Connectbeam is the first and leading provider of an integrated set of enterprise social software applications delivered as a turnkey appliance for businesses. The premise of the Connectbeam application is that social networks inside companies create a climate of information sharing and discovery, and thrive when employees discover and connect with other employees in the context of searching for information and expertise. Connectbeam is the first company to successfully combine the features of social bookmarking and social networking to deliver an integrated information access and discovery application.
Connectbeam is headquartered in Mountain View, California, is privately held and venture backed. For more information, visit http://www.connectbeam.com.
Awards
Connectbeam's major awards include:
- “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management” (KMWorld Magazine)
- “"100 Companies That Matter Most in Social Media” (EContent Magazine)
- “Cool Vendor for 2007” (Gartner)
- “Trend Setter Product of the Year 2007” (KMWorld)
- “Top Five Enterprise 2.0 Companies to Watch in 2007” (InformationWeek)
- “Rising Star of 2007” (InfoWorld)
Contact
Connectbeam, Inc.
605 Ellis Street
Mountain View, CA 94043
Main: (650) 980-5080
Toll free: (888) 977-8880
Fax: (650) 249-1656
http://www.connectbeam.com
