Social Networking Meets Enterprise Applications
The fact that people inside corporations are leveraging social networks outside their corporation isn't news to anybody. But what is news is the fact that corporations are starting to integrate their enterprise applications with applications created for social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
At the forefront of this trend is a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software called Alfresco that uses an open source model to bring its software to market. According to company CTO John Newton they've already had a number of customers ask them to integrate Facebook and LinkedIn applications with the Alfresco ECM system so the customers can work better with all the contractors that make up their extended enterprise.
