Hi We've used Socialcast and Salesforce's Chatter, both are externally hosts (ie cloud) but both work quite well. Depends on how deep your pockets are and if you're already using Salesforce or not.
-- Martin Hepworth, CISSP Oxford, UK On 30 September 2014 15:50, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk > wrote: > 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 > -- 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
