Matrix
Below you can find the full overview of ratings of Social Software Matrix. They are enriched with background colors to show positive (green) or negative (red) ratings. The results are also included into our widget that you can embed on your own web page or blog.
Use Cases
| Enterprise Communication |
Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange |
Social Networking and Expert Search |
Personal Information Management |
Project Management |
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| Atlassian Confluence 4.0 | 70% | 90% | 60% | 70% | 70% |
| Google Apps Pro + Wave | 30% | 80% | 10% | 40% | 50% |
| IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 | 80% | 80% | 90% | 80% | 70% |
| Jive Social Business Software 5.0 | 90% | 80% | 80% | 100% | 70% |
| Liferay Social Office | 70% | 70% | 60% | 60% | 50% |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 | 80% | 100% | 70% | 60% | 90% |
| blueKiwi 10.5 | 80% | 50% | 90% | 90% | 10% |
| Socialtext 4.7.5 | 80% | 60% | 60% | 70% | 30% |
| Drupal Commons 2.3 | 80% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 30% |
Technology & Product
| Operational Flexibility | Customization & Extensibility | Data & Security | Vendor Position | Support & Service | |
| Atlassian Confluence 4.0 | 80% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 90% |
| Google Apps Pro + Wave | 30% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 70% |
| IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 | 80% | 80% | 70% | 100% | 80% |
| Jive Social Business Software 5.0 | 80% | 80% | 80% | 90% | 80% |
| Liferay Social Office | 70% | 90% | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 | 80% | 90% | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| blueKiwi 10.5 | 60% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 60% |
| Socialtext 4.7.5 | 80% | 70% | 60% | 80% | 60% |
| Drupal Commons 2.3 | 90% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 70% |
7 comments for “Matrix”
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These number on categories are great but if you don’t post what your decisions are to give a certain category a certain number/grade. Its completly useless
. I mean if I speak for myself I am quite familiar with Lotus Connections. and you graded for example “Date & Security” 70%. I just now want to know why did you graded it 70% ! that would be interesting as maybe your decisions do not apply to my or to my customer environments and in that particualr case it would be 100% as you understand what I mean.
Hope to see clarifications on the categories soon !
thnx
Hi Sjaak,
You are making an important remark here. If we would post these ratings without an explanation of our categories and any indication how we came to that rating the numbers would be completely useless. We have however outlined our categories here and provide a short evaluation text for each rating on the individual toolpages (you find a linklist here and in the sidebar).
We will make this more transparent by providing a new matrix-table with links to the respective evaluation texts in the near future.
In the specific case that you mention (Lotus Connections, Data & Security) we did not like that “access controls are mostly just public or private and a definition of user roles needs a complicated integration with the Websphere Portal Server (WPS).”
Surely it is possible to justify a 10% higher or lower rating and we are aware that our assessments are not perfect. This is why we encourage people to understand the ratings as indicators of strength and weaknesses rather than absolute scientific statements.
Your conclusion that a given rating will not fit a particular customer environment is absolutely correct and valuable. The Social Software Matrix is provides a general overview only. For a detailed situational analysis and tool-selection experts should be consulted.
Best regards,
Bernd
Excellent work. How often do you guys plan to refresh the matrix, given that SM apps evolve at a very rapid pace?
Hi Saqib,
you are right, the tools evovle at a rapid pace. However, significant changes do not occur on a monthly basis and usually just come in major product updates. We are working on this trying to establish a process that will allow vendors to easily notify us about enhancements of their tools, so that we can reasses them. In addition we are optimizing our product review process which will allow us to add more tools to the Matrix despite of the limited time we have for working on our favorite side-project.
Best regards,
Bernd
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I will second what some others have said. This would be even more useful if there was a way to understand the basis of your ratings.
You should include SalesForce/ Chatter