Social Media | Core » saas http://socialmediacore.com Sharing Top Social Media Content Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:37:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 HiveLive Social Enterprise Platform – REVIEW http://socialmediacore.com/hivelive-social-enterprise-platform-review/ http://socialmediacore.com/hivelive-social-enterprise-platform-review/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:59:21 +0000 Cosmin Ghiu http://socialmediacore.com/?p=190 I want to take this opportunity to write a followup blog post on my recent Top 10 Social Media Enterprise Companies. It had a great response and has been producing some great organic traffic. Social Media for enterprise…

]]> I want to take this opportunity to write a followup blog post on my recent Top 10 Social Media Enterprise Companies. It had a great response and has been producing some great organic traffic. Social Media for enterprise is something that is very appealing to Fortune companies that have doven into this space or are looking to invest budget.

That is why companies that specialize in Social platforms for enterprise are sprouting up all over. The leaders among those are the ones that continue to better there business model and product.

I was fortunate to get an email from the PR folks of HiveLive.com to give me an exclusive demo of their product.

HiveLive is different than other companies in their space by the following four points according to their Business Development Director who gave me the demo.

  1. Customizable web 2.0 building blocks (known as the hive).
  2. Extensive permissions sets
  3. Point & Click Interface
  4. Partnership Approach

He led me via a remote desktop demo to the following examples:

1. Designers Accord Web Community – http://community.designersaccord.org

2. Serena Software – http://community.serena.com/pages/home

3. Rally Community – http://agilecommons.org/hives

I also got an opportunity to get a demo of the administrative back end which is very flexible and customizable when it comes to the modules and features that are used within a website. Areas of the website are viewable and able to be modified based on the user permissions set to each usergroup and/or individual.

HiveLive Admin area

There is no URL to the admin area but I was shown a default back end admin area to get a feel of the GUI and features.

When it comes to design customizations it is also very flexible via company providing creative assets and HiveLives intergrates it into the soluction. HiveLive is a SaaS (Software as a Service) model. Which means it must be hosted on their servers with URL forwarding/alias from your company’s domain.

I was told that most enterprise companies are understandable of this when I asked about this SaaS being a potential negative to the product especially since if it is a large Fortune company with established brand and security processes in place it may be a deterrant.

As many companies are now adopting SaaS products (Salesforce.com) not allowing an opportunity to deploy on a company enterprise server may not be a problem.

Overall I was impressed with the product and look forward to reviewing others like it.

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