We’ve written a very useful 38-page paper that goes over in a fair amount of detail what the phenomenon of Social Computing is and what its value is to Microsoft’s enterprise customers – particularly those that own and leverage Sharepoint Technologies.
The paper goes over a few specific examples but unfortunately they left a few off that I think would have been valuable to include:
- Cadence Design Systems
Social Networking Enhances Brand for Electronic Design Automation Firm WHITEPAPER: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000003532
VIDEO: http://hightech.telligent.com/blogs/video_clips_from_the_high_tech_summit/archive/2009/01/29/great-case-study-from-cadence-design-systems-and-speaktech.aspx - Numonyx
High-Tech Startup Creates Public Web Site and Collaborative Intranet in 80 Days
WHITEPAPER: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000003568
VIDEO: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/resources/Files/4000003568/Numonyx_1440K.wvx
Topics covered by the paper:
- Why Enterprises Adopt Social Computing
- Value of Social Computing to Enterprises
- Benefits of Social Computing to IT
- Usage Scenarios of Enterprise 2.0 Technologies
- How Social Computing with SharePoint Solves Business Problems
- Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as Social Computing Platforms
- Real World Applications of Social Computing
- Microsoft’s Main Differentiators
- IT Benefits
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