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Enterprise 2.0 SocNet – Next Generation Collaboration & Knowledge Management Solution

ZSL’s Enterprise 2.0 SocNet is the Next Generation Collaboration and Knowledge Management solution for enterprises to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing and interaction among its employees. ZSL’s SocNet solution provides the business managers access to right information at right time through collaborative platforms within and across the organization at inexpensive cost.

Our Collaboration and Knowledge Management solution built on Web 2.0 technologies can help your organization gain immense potential through knowledge promotion, thought exchange and innovation, turning out to bring huge business opportunity for your enterprise. Our SocNet solution can help your organization build social computing tools like Blog, Forums, Syndications and more through which you can express your organization’s vision, ideas, innovations, strategic value and leadership insights to the world. Our expertise in open source technologies and commercial products can help you build social computing portals at reduced cost.

Collaboration in Cloud (CiC)

ZSL has extended its Enterprise 2.0 SocNet, the Knowledge Management & Collaboration, offerings as service oriented cloud computing services. Our Knowledge Management & Collaboration is service enabled and enterprises can now avail Collaboration as a service (CaaS), which is cost effective and pay only for the utilized services. Our Cloud enabled Collaboration services are powered by WebSphere sMash and Amazon Web Services. The green savvy enterprises can now capitalize their knowledge pool using a virtual infrastructure at reduced capital expenses.

Our Collaboration and Knowledge Management solution for enterprises

• Connects knowledge assets at low cost investment
• Is a repository for harnessed knowledge capital and easily accessible for employees
  at all levels
• One time investment for knowledge dissemination
• Enables effective utilization of knowledge converted into value proposition action
• Brings productive collaboration at inexpensive cost
• Brings transparency across the enterprises
• Brings solution to a problem at one’s own desk
• Share your project status, new experiences among your peers at inexpensive communication cost
• Provide you and your employees a tool to expose talents, leadership qualities and innovative thoughts to the world at no cost investment
• Is secured and reliable social computing portal tailor made to meet your enterprise
  requirements

Features of Enterprise 2.0 SocNet

Customized Social Computing Portal
The social computing portal can be customized and tailored to the needs of your enterprise for collaboration with multiple networks, employees, customers, partners and suppliers for information sharing and interaction.

Social Networking
ZSL’s Enterprise 2.0 SocNet brings you an opportunity of knowing each other and networking with people of your common business interests. It makes your business stronger by enabling you to build a stronger social tie around your business demands.

Features

• View individual profiles
• Create open and private groups at all levels
• Group Invitations
• Personalized Invitations
• View Group Profiles

Discussion Forums
Enterprise 2.0 SocNet provides discussion platforms that connects and engages the employees across various geographical areas. It gives the advantage of breaking the monotony of one-to-one communication and gives an opportunity for your employees at any level to initiate or participate in discussion and share their ideas. User-based and permission-based forums for employees, customers, partners, closed groups, open groups to generate content, share knowledge and re-use at time of need across the organization.

Features

• Search through forum posts
• Attach files of any format .Doc, .XLS, .PDF, .JPEG, .GIF and more to a discussion post
• Download attachments from a forum
• Easy navigability to other forums
• Information on user’s permission levels
• Forum Statistics through dashboards
• Sorting discussions based on topics, date-wise, period-wise and more
• Common Announcements visible to all
• Email notifications about forum postings
• Forum Pagination

Blogs
With SocNet you can harness your corporate knowledge and create a corporate memory of this valuable knowledge. It acts as an information dissemination vehicle. The technical and management bigwigs can share their innovative ideas, leadership insights and acquaintance and thereby establishing a liaison with employees promoting for a healthy corporate environment.

Features

• Search through blogs
• Attach files of any format .Doc, .XLS, .PDF, .JPEG, .GIF and more to a blog post
• Download attachments from a blog
• Provision to post comments
• Statistics on blog entries and comments
• Forum Statistics through dashboards
• Sorting discussions based on topics, date-wise, period-wise and more
• Links to recent and most popular blogs
• Rating, Tagging and bookmarking
• Email notifications about blog postings

Enterprise Wikis
ZSL’s Enterprise 2.0 SocNet offers a collaborative workspace with a rich WYSIWYG editor, which enables anyone to create content that is visible to team members and available for editing and collaborative contributions. It also includes user voting to rank the value of wiki pages.

Enterprise Search
Another break through feature of Enterprise 2.0 SocNet is its Enterprise-class search engine that performs search through ASCII files of both HTML and text and enables to create index.

Compliance Management
Enterprise 2.0 SocNet provides audit log features to trace and track the user activities on their step-in and -out time.

Bookmarking
To connect your interests and expertise with your colleagues, Enterprise 2.0 SocNet offers you a simple and exuberant feature of bookmarking URLs. You can save URLs, that you think to be useful, as bookmarks and can share with others and as well as go through URLs bookmarked by your peers.

Survey
ZSL’s collaborative platform has an integrated Survey Management module to conduct surveys across the organization. This will help you to find out the employee, peer and customer consensus, preferences and opinions over a topic and to take mission critical decisions based on the survey results.

Instant Messaging
Enterprise 2.0 SocNet provides instant messenger that enables you to instantly interact with your peers, partners and customers invariably across the globe through chats. This promotes effective and efficient communication featured with immediate response or acknowledgement – all at inexpensive spending.

RSS Feeds
Enterprise 2.0 SocNet has features to auto generate feeds for a newly posted blog/forum, publish and subscribe to feeds, where access rights to publish or subscribe to feeds is profile-based. You can also syndicate feeds from external sources.

News & Events Management
Enterprise 2.0 SocNet serves as a complete secured collaborative solution with permission-based administrative access to publish, edit and delete an announcement, news or event. Thus you can leverage SocNet to disseminate mission-critical information and enunciate organization's insights to your employees, customers and partners through announcement and news.

Rich and Friendly User Interface
Enterprise 2.0 SocNet is built on Web 2.0 services enriched by rich concepts of AJAX, RIA, etc providing more rich and user friendly interface bringing in ease data handling and quick data refreshment.

Business Benefits

Technical Benefits

Enterprise 2.0 SocNet Competency

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