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Social Sites® Deployment Options for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Social Sites makes Microsoft SharePoint even more social with social networking features that include numerous deployment options - whether it is SharePoint cloud computing, on premise, or a hybrid approach. No matter how you deploy Social Sites 2010, NewsGator continues to deliver the best enterprise collaboration software for business by going above and beyond SharePoint 2010 to make your organization truly social – with improved microblogging, an aggregated activity stream, a full range of mobile clients, ideation, video, rich social insights, and much more.

By integrating Social Sites directly into your SharePoint 2010 collaboration deployment, you can focus on delivering value to your users and unifying your technology infrastructure while fully leveraging your SharePoint social network – instead of building custom applications or learning and supporting additional technologies. Increase adoption among stakeholders, streamline communication, improve employee recruiting and retention, and boost overall productivity with Social Sites 2010.

NewsGator offers flexible deployment options for Social Sites 2010 to best meet your business needs - through SharePoint cloud computing, on premise, or a hybrid approach.		  

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Testimonials

“While out of the box, SharePoint is pretty good, NewsGator Social Sites just makes it awesome. We're finding that Social Sites is the critical glue in making it easy for our users to find information, share ideas, and collaborate with their peers. At the end of the day, Social Sites is wildly improving the ways we communicate across all parts of the organization.”

 - Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology, Denver Art Museum

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"Tomoye’s communities of practice is a strong compliment to SharePoint, creating a seamless platform where knowledge workers can create true business value." 

 - Deb Bannon, Sr. Product Manager for Microsoft’s SharePoint Server Partner Group, Microsoft Corporation

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“Newsgator has added cohesiveness to the community by incorporating another level of communication to bind us all together. The discussion forums are very helpful in that you do not need to know specifically who to pinpoint when posting a question or idea. Having an established community of experts exposed at the first point of contact limits the forwarding of emails and keeps the communication flowing.”

 - PepsiCo Participant in a NewsGator Social Sites Pilot

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 “The NewsGator Tomoye-powered Acquisition Community Connection (ACC) provides broad access to resources and knowledge sharing and supports the real-time needs of our acquisition workforce.  In addition, NewsGator provides top-notch support and incorporates our feedback and feature requests into their product roadmap.”

  -  Jill Garcia, ACC Program Manager, Defense Acquisition University

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“[Using Social Sites] increased awareness as people were able to join communities and interact. We’ve received explicit feedback from our users like:
I didn’t even realize there was a community of practitioners in that particular area.”

  - Kevin Dana, Director of Social Computing & Collaboration, Accenture

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“With the combination of SharePoint Server 2010 and Social Sites 2010, we can more effectively apply the power of social computing to our most important business objective –delivering great results for our clients."

- Jonella Donius, CIO, Fleishman-Hillard

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“In 18 months, D Street [powered by Social Sites] has become a very popular application at Deloitte. An average of 2,300 of the 26,000 active profiles are viewed by over 850 visitors per day. D Street now hosts 3,000 blogs, 60,000 photos and 11,000 resumes and is the place to connect at Deloitte.“

  - Patricia Romeo, VP, Talent Innovation at Deloitte

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“NewsGator Tomoye, from my experience, clearly understands communities of practice (CoPs) first, and builds the application second. Each version continues to evolve to support the needs of CoPs first and foremost.”

 - LTC (Retired) Mike Dorohovich, Chief Editor, Acquisition Community Connection, Defense Acquisition University

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“Now logisticians have access to advanced knowledge, the price of which we just can't quantify. Before LoGNet,the reality is that knowledge transfer was taking years. Now, valuable first-hand experience and information is transferred in a matter of days. Any given member has a network of thousands of mentors, which gives them the experience they need and helps us to drive innovation within the logistics profession in the U.S. Army.”

 - Bob Dalton, LOGNET Facilitator, The U.S. Army - U.S. Government Procurement

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"In conjunction with NewsGator Tomoye, FRAMEweb.org has successfully contributed to a dramatic shift in the paradigm of natural resource management that would have never been achieved with traditional development channels such as reports and face-to-face meetings."

  - Sarah Schmidt, DAI, Participation and Outreach Manager for USAID's Capitalizing Knowledge Connecting Communities (CK2C) Initiative

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NewsGator can help you develop a social computing strategy that delivers business value today using MOSS 2007 while transitioning seamlessly when you upgrade to SharePoint 2010.

Contact us to begin developing your SharePoint 2010 social strategy.

Social Sites 2010 Deployment Options

On Premise

Social Sites is primarily deployed on premise; however, that trend is starting to change with SharePoint cloud computing options. For many companies, the main benefit of building and supporting their software deployments on premise is to control and supervise the security of their data. Depending on the size of your company and your industry, deploying Social Sites 2010 on premise may be your best option; however, we recommend that you evaluate a cloud-based deployment to compare costs, short and long-term goals, and IT and security requirements.

In the Cloud

As Microsoft Office 365 progresses, cloud-based deployments will continue to grow. NewsGator understands the benefits of cloud computing – agility, accessibility, flexibility, and efficiency – and works with each customer individually to support its business needs and objectives. This includes the option of creating a hybrid approach that supports security, control, and scalability goals.
 
To learn more about Cloud deployments, check out this webinar with Kraft Foods – a global organization who has deployed SharePoint 2010 Online (Dedicated Version) and Social Sites 2010 enterprise-wide in the Cloud.
 

Social Sites 2010 Supports SharePoint Online Cloud Computing & Office 365 

Social Sites 2010 offers support for Office 365 and SharePoint Online Dedicated and is the most integrated social computing product for SharePoint – both on premise and in the cloud.
 
A few benefits of Office 365 include:
 
  • Access to e-mail, documents, contacts, and calendars on nearly any device
  • Works seamlessly with Microsoft Office and the other programs people use today
  • Lowers IT burden in regards to implementation, maintenance, and support 
  • Provides the right licensing for every type of knowledge worker and use case
  • Allows for an extended environment with a single sign-on and easily-managed access for trusted outside users (e.g. partners, suppliers)
For more information, contact us or check out this blog post by Brian Kellner, our EVP of Products, for what Office 365 and SharePoint Online mean to your organization – and how NewsGator will continue to be Microsoft’s go-to-partner for social computing and E2.0 technology.