OpenSocial drives apps for the Consumerprise Era!
July 29th, 2011 | Published in Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial rocks! Plain and simple. On Wednesday, Jive Software hosted an event where we showed off the Jive Apps Market. Thirteen of our app partners were present to demonstrate their killer apps (AppFusions, Appirio, Box, Crowd Factory, Gliffy, Lingotek, RoundPegg, Rypple, SalesCrunch, SolutionSet, SurveyGizmo, ThreeWill, yaM Labs). You can learn more about it in different blogs like Forbes and InformationWeek Brainyard, the Twitter stream, and on the Jive Developer Community.
This is the world's first social enterprise apps market. And it's based on OpenSocial. Each application is an OpenSocial gadget that gets rendered inside a user's Jive Apps dashboard.
Why is OpenSocial such a great fit for this? First of all, it gives us an open, industry standard application model that our partners can use to deliver SaaS based capability that extends and compliments the underlying Jive Platform.
Would we have been able to build and deliver the Jive Apps Market as quickly as we did without OpenSocial? No way. By leveraging the OpenSocial, and building on top of Apache Shindig, we were able to leverage the power of the community, appeal to a broad base of fantastic application developers working at innovative companies, and provide enterprises with the security of working with an industry leading open, standard technology.
Posted by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation & Developer Evangelist, Jive Apps
This is the world's first social enterprise apps market. And it's based on OpenSocial. Each application is an OpenSocial gadget that gets rendered inside a user's Jive Apps dashboard.
Why is OpenSocial such a great fit for this? First of all, it gives us an open, industry standard application model that our partners can use to deliver SaaS based capability that extends and compliments the underlying Jive Platform.
OpenSocial also provides access to the enterprise social graph. You can use the programming model to access the members of your company that you are connected with as well as the member of your groups.
And let's not forget the activity stream! Inside of Jive, OpenSocial applications can post activities into the stream, which enables them to spread virally across the enterprise.
Would we have been able to build and deliver the Jive Apps Market as quickly as we did without OpenSocial? No way. By leveraging the OpenSocial, and building on top of Apache Shindig, we were able to leverage the power of the community, appeal to a broad base of fantastic application developers working at innovative companies, and provide enterprises with the security of working with an industry leading open, standard technology.
Posted by Mark Weitzel, President, OpenSocial Foundation & Developer Evangelist, Jive Apps