On 30 September 2014 at 15:30 Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell <darkliq...@darkliquid.co.uk> wrote:
> If they already use Microsoft Office (and especially if they already > subscribe to Office 365) then Yammer is a service that is specifically > designed to be a corporate social network at the Office 365 Mid-Size Business > tier. I've never used it though and naturally it's a service, not something > you can run yourself on your own hardware. > We are looking for a solution that can be hosted within our Corporate network, preferably on Linux servers. > > I've had some brief exposure to Atlassians Confluence software, which you can > buy to self-host or pay for monthly per user as a service and it seems pretty > good, though like all things it has a bit of a learning curve. I've only > barely used it though, so can't say much about it other than people I work > with have given it very high praise. It's probably better if you buy into the > rest of Atlassian's suite of tools like Jira and Hipchat, etc but by itself I > don't imagine it's too bad. > I don't think having to pay is the issue; it's about having it hosted on our network. > > Speaking of Hipchat, that might actually fit the bill. It's basically an IRC > style private chatroom client, but depending on the plans you get (and you can > even use it for free with unlimited users if I recall) when you attach images > or files to messages, they stay in the system so they can be referred back to, > at least for a time. If what they need is something more real-time rather than > a long-term document storage/sharing system, then that might work out well for > them. I use hipchat extensively at work for communicating with my team, > sharing files, talking to clients, holding meetings, etc and find I rarely use > anything else for sharing things, getting feedback or collaborating on > projects. I can highly recommend it, and since you can trial it for free, if > it sounds like it might fit the bill, I'd encourage you to investigate it. We > also use their dev API to feed in info from our various monitoring tools for > servers, software builds, support tickets, etc so it acts a company-wide > notification system as well as shared communications platform. > Thanks for the ideas. We will be investigating all of them. Anyone come across Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/)? Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
