CMS Watch Enterprise Social Software Vendor List
Below we list enterprise social software and collaboration solutions. These are not the "best" enterprise social software and collaboration tools, simply -- in our judgment -- the most significant today.
You can find a longer discussion of these categories -- along with comparative evaluations of these tools -- in The Enterprise Social Software & Collaboration Report.
Platform Vendors
These are behemoth software vendors who arrived belatedly but with some force to the Social Software landscape. With the exception of Google, they are also among the pricier offerings.
- Microsoft - SharePoint
- HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 41 - IBM - Connections / Quickr
- HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 5 - Oracle - Beehive / AquaLogic
- HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 4 - Google - Google Sites
- HQ: Mountain View, CA, US -- Mentions: 7
Social Software Suites
Smaller, privately-held vendors that offer an array of different Social Software services, but individually, they come to this space with a particular background in one application or another, which typically remains their core strength and orientation.
- Telligent Systems - Community Server / CS Evolution
- HQ: Dallas, Texas -- Mentions: 2 - Connectbeam - Social Software Appliance
- HQ: Mountain View, CA, US -- Mentions: 2 - Jive Software - Clearspace
- HQ: Portland, OR, US -- Mentions: 5 - Traction Software - TeamPage
- HQ: Providence, RI, US -- Mentions: 3 - Drupal - Drupal
- HQ: Global -- Mentions: 6 - blueKiwi - blueKiwi Suite
- HQ: Paris, France -- Mentions: 1 - Awareness - Awareness Platform
- HQ: Waltham, MA, US -- Mentions: 1
Wiki Software
These are standalone wiki software packages. Nearly all the other vendors in the tiers above offer some sort of wiki services, but they generally pale in comparison to what you would find in these dedicated wiki tools
- Socialtext - Socialtext
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA, US -- Mentions: 5 - MindTouch - MindTouch Deki
- HQ: San Diego, CA, US -- Mentions: 1 - Wetpaint - Wetpaint
- HQ: Seattle, WA, US -- Mentions: 1 - Atlassian - Confluence
- HQ: Sydney, Australia -- Mentions: 2 - MediaWiki - MediaWiki
- HQ: St Petersburg, FL, US -- Mentions: 4
Blog Software
Although all these vendors have ambitions about expanding to become more full-fledged Web Content Management and Social Software offerings, the core of each of these platforms is its blogging service.
- Six Apart - Movable Type
- HQ: San Francisco, CA, US -- Mentions: 6 - Automattic - WordPress
- HQ: -- Mentions: 6 - Google - Google Blogger
- HQ: Mountain View, CA, US -- Mentions: 8
White-label Community Services
These are hosted suites of Social Software services that an enterprise can private-label to create their own branded, public offerings.
- KickApps - KickApps Platform
- HQ: New York, NY -- Mentions: 2 - Ning - Ning
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA, US -- Mentions: 3 - Pluck - SiteLife
- HQ: Austin, TX, US -- Mentions: 4 - Lithium - InterActive
- HQ: Emeryville, CA, US -- Mentions: 3
Public Networks
These are public networking sites catering to individuals, but with the opportunity to create groups and networks that can be leveraged within and beyond the enterprise.
- XING - XING
- HQ: Hamburg, Germany -- Mentions: 2 - LinkedIn - LinkedIn
- HQ: Mountain View, CA, US -- Mentions: 5 - Facebook - Facebook
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA, US -- Mentions: 8 - Twitter - Twitter
- HQ: San Francisco, CA
Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.