"Enterprise OpenSocial White paper" now available!
December 22nd, 2009 | Published in Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial emerged from the demands of consumer-facing social networking sites, including MySpace, LinkedIn, and Ning. The rise of online social networking, and the changing nature of the consumer web, have both made OpenSocial increasingly relevant to business and enterprises. Beyond social capabilities for accessing and sharing user profile, relationship and activity data, OpenSocial can also be used as a general purpose web application integration technology, providing open standards for browser-based components known as gadgets. For non-browser/ui data transfer OpenSocial also includes a REST based server-to-server protocol
Over the last few months, a small group of enterprise vendors have been working together to understand how each is using OpenSocial within their organizations, and identify requirements based upon their enterprise use cases. What started out as a panel session at Google IO in May of 2009, led to larger face to face meeting in September consisting of representatives from IBM, SAP, Atlassian, Alfresco, SocialText, Cisco, Cubetree, eXo Platform, Google and others. The result of that face to face meeting is the Enterprise OpenSocial white paper, a collaborative effort that discusses general requirements for enterprise social systems and describes how OpenSocial can be used today to address them. Not all requirements are met today, however, so the paper also outlines the current gaps and discusses how the specification might evolve to meet them.
The white paper is intended for IT professionals, development managers, and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) who are leading organizational changes through social computing by embracing standards and Web 2.0 approaches. Our next face to face meeting is in late January 2010, so check out the Enterprise OpenSocial page on OpenSocial.org for more details. We hope that you find the paper enjoyable and educational. However, we recognize this is only the first step. Like the paper, we'll conclude with a call to action and encourage you to become involved and help shape OpenSocial.
Click here to read the "Enterprise OpenSocial White paper"!
Over the last few months, a small group of enterprise vendors have been working together to understand how each is using OpenSocial within their organizations, and identify requirements based upon their enterprise use cases. What started out as a panel session at Google IO in May of 2009, led to larger face to face meeting in September consisting of representatives from IBM, SAP, Atlassian, Alfresco, SocialText, Cisco, Cubetree, eXo Platform, Google and others. The result of that face to face meeting is the Enterprise OpenSocial white paper, a collaborative effort that discusses general requirements for enterprise social systems and describes how OpenSocial can be used today to address them. Not all requirements are met today, however, so the paper also outlines the current gaps and discusses how the specification might evolve to meet them.
The white paper is intended for IT professionals, development managers, and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) who are leading organizational changes through social computing by embracing standards and Web 2.0 approaches. Our next face to face meeting is in late January 2010, so check out the Enterprise OpenSocial page on OpenSocial.org for more details. We hope that you find the paper enjoyable and educational. However, we recognize this is only the first step. Like the paper, we'll conclude with a call to action and encourage you to become involved and help shape OpenSocial.
Click here to read the "Enterprise OpenSocial White paper"!