Seeking to incorporate real-time communication and social task management into its social business platform, Jive Software has acquired Meetings.io and Producteev. Meetings.io’s platform facilitates human interaction with its capability to create video and chat connections instantly, through a web browser. In addition, the platform can be accessed from anywhere across the world without sign ups or downloads. Producteev has developed a cloud-based social task management solution which provides real-time task management and task progress tracking functionality. Read the rest of this entry »

Part 1 of this series introduced Saba Software, a public provider of the Saba People Cloud, which constitutes a new class of business-critical software that combines enterprise learning management, talent management, and social and real-time collaboration technologies. My post first described the vendor’s slew of industry rewards and accolades at the recent 2011 Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston and related events.

Then, the post discussed the need for the “People Cloud” that transforms people-driven enterprises and analyzed a number of social software use case scenarios. The blog post ended with a description of Saba’s current state of affairs. Part 2 analyzed the individual modules of the Saba People Cloud Applications.

This final part will analyze the underlying product architecture that enables the rich functionality of the Saba People Cloud Applications described in Part 2.

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