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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social
Platforms, Q2 2014
by Rob Koplowitz, June 5, 2014
For: CIOs
Key Takeaways
IBM, Microsoft, And Salesforce.com Are Forrester Wave Leaders And In A
Position To Be Market Leaders
Forrester’s research uncovered a market in which IBM Connections, salesforce Chatter
and Communities, Jive, Microsoft Office 365, Zimbra Communities, and Tibco tibbr
lead the pack. Sitrion, Neudesic, Microsoft Yammer, Atlassian, SAP, OpenText, and
blueKiwi offer competitive options. Socialcast by VMware lags behind.
The Market Is No Longer Nascent -- At Least In Terms Of Functionality
While there are still many offerings and the market remains chaotic, the offerings
are converging in terms of functional sets. Most products now offer robust activity
streams, blogs, wikis, and profiles, and the battleground for differentiation has moved to
integration, analytics, and partner ecosystems.
Market Leaders Are Emerging
Enterprise social has become increasingly integrated with adjacent technologies, such
as document collaboration, portals, and line-of-business applications like customer
relationship management. To that end, vendors with significant leverage like IBM,
Microsoft, and salesforce.com will become more dominant on customers’ shortlists.
Market Leadership Will Drive Dominant Ecosystems
Enterprise social does not live in isolation. It thrives with business-specific horizontal
and vertical extensions. As market leaders emerge, partner ecosystems will follow to
exploit the best market opportunities. Leaders will become even more dominant as
broader partner ecosystems increasingly equate to broader and deeper capabilities.
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For CIOs
Why Read This Report
In Forrester’s 65-criteria evaluation of enterprise social platform vendors, we identified the 13 most
significant solution providers — Atlassian, blueKiwi, IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Neudesic, OpenText, salesforce.
com, SAP, Sitrion, Socialcast by VMware, Tibco, and Zimbra — in the category and researched, analyzed,
and scored them. This Forrester Wave replaces two previous Forrester Waves —The Forrester Wave™:
Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011 and The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012 — because
market conditions have forced these two categories to consolidate. There also has been significant vendor
attrition over that period, e.g., Jive is now the only pure-play enterprise social vendor. This report details
our findings about how well each solution fulfills our criteria and where each stands in relation to one
another in order to help CIO professionals select the right partner for their enterprise social platform.
Table Of Contents
Enterprise Social Platform Market Matures
Amid Consolidation And Integration
Enterprise Social Platform Evaluation
Overview
Broad Integration And Partnership
Differentiate The Market Leaders
When The Focus Is On Activity Stream, The
Landscape Shifts
Vendor Profiles
Supplemental Material
Notes & Resources
Forrester conducted lab-based evaluations
and interviewed over 50 vendor and user
companies, including Atlassian, blueKiwi,
IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Neudesic, OpenText,
salesforce.com, SAP, Sitrion, Tibco, VMware,
and Zimbra.
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Enterprise Social Platform Market Matures Amid Consolidation And
Integration
The enterprise social platform is no longer in its infancy as offerings become increasingly functional.
At the same time, market dynamics are driving well-placed offerings into leadership positions based
upon sales reach, portfolio integration, and bundling options.
Dominant Vendors Pursue Market Share While Others Differentiate
As this market matures, some vendors have begun to differentiate their offerings. For example,
Telligent, a Leader in the last enterprise social platform (ESP) Forrester Wave, acquired Zimbra
from VMware and is working on a new offering that integrates email and enterprise social into a
new knowledge experience. Telligent targets medium-sized enterprises with this evolved offering
and it has gained significant traction in Europe and Asia. Sitrion (formerly known as NewsGator
Technologies) and Neudesic are focused on on-premises implementations that provide deep
integration with SharePoint and back-end line-of-business applications.
Strategies that provide long-term differentiation will become increasingly important as large
vendors with significant marketing and sales resources, as well as deep experience with knowledge
workers, begin to flex their muscles. Three in particular are well positioned — IBM, Microsoft, and
salesforce.com are all Leaders in this Forrester Wave.
Once Disparate Offerings Converge, But Not Completely
The last time Forrester evaluated this space, we produced two distinct Forrester Waves: The Forrester
Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011 and The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012.
Since that time, many activity stream vendors have grown their offerings and the overlap with
broader enterprise social platforms has become much larger. In light of these changes, we have
combined the Forrester Waves and have created a second set of weightings, scorecards, and graphics
for clients that require a more focused activity stream. In the activity stream version, salesforce.
com is represented by Chatter, but in the enterprise social platform version, it is represented by a
combination of Chatter and Communities.
Enterprise Social Platform Evaluation Overview
To assess the state of the enterprise social platform market and see how the vendors stack up
against one another, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top enterprise social
platform vendors.
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Evaluation Criteria Cover Current Offering, Strategy, And Market Presence
After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we
developed a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. We evaluated vendors against 65 criteria,
which we grouped into three high-level buckets:
■	Current offering. To assess product strength, we evaluated each offering against seven groups of
criteria: 1) core functionality; 2) language support; 3) architecture and administration; 4) event
logs, monitoring, and reporting; 5) security; 6) cross-platform support; and 7) engagement
workplace readiness.
■	Strategy. We reviewed each vendor’s strategy, management team, and road map, evaluating how
well the vendor’s planned enhancements will position it for market leadership and whether or
not the vendor has the resources to support that strategy.
■	Market presence. To determine a vendor’s market presence, we evaluated each vendor’s
financial performance, installed base, integration partners, professional services, number of
employees, and technology partners.
Evaluated Vendors Have Broad Capabilities, Market Presence, And Client Interests
Forrester included 13 vendors in the assessment: Atlassian, blueKiwi, IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Neudesic,
OpenText, salesforce.com, SAP, Sitrion, Socialcast by VMware, Tibco, and Zimbra. Each of these
vendors has (see Figure 1):
■	Offered a breadth of social capabilities. Participating vendors were required to have most or
all of the following: profiles, user home page, activity streams, community/group capabilities,
tagging, discussion threads, blog, and wiki. This implies a broad array of social capabilities that
represents a fairly level field of comparison.
■	Provided three references of customers in production. As vendors enter this crowded market
on a regular basis, Forrester requires vendors to demonstrate a basic level of market presence
and staying power.
■	Received frequent consideration in enterprise social strategy or collaboration strategy. In
order to maintain the Forrester Wave at a manageable number of vendors, Forrester queried
our internal customer relationship management system and solicited feedback from appropriate
analysts to help determine which vendors were most highly relevant to Forrester clients.
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Figure 1 Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Vendor Selection Criteria
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Vendor
Atlassian
blueKiwi
IBM
Jive
Microsoft
Microsoft
Neudesic
OpenText
salesforce.com
SAP
Sitrion
VMware
Tibco
Zimbra
Product evaluated*
Confluence
blueKiwi
Connections
Jive
Office 365 (including Yammer)
Yammer
Neudesic Pulse
OpenText Tempo Social
Chatter and Communities
Jam
Sitrion Social
Socialcast
tibbr
Zimbra Community
Vendor selection criteria
Vendors offered a breadth of social capabilities. Participating vendors were required to have most or all
of the following: profiles, user home page, activity streams, community/group capabilities, tagging,
discussion threads, blog, and wiki. This implies a broad array of social capabilities that represents a
fairly level field of comparison.
Vendors provided three references of customers in production. As vendors enter this crowded market
on a regular basis, Forrester requires vendors to demonstrate a basic level of market presence and
staying power.
Vendors received frequent consideration in enterprise social strategy or collaboration strategy. In order
to maintain the Forrester Wave at a manageable number of vendors, Forrester queried our internal
customer relationship management system and solicited feedback from appropriate analysts to help
determine which vendors were most highly relevant to Forrester clients.
*All products evaluated were generally available as of February 2014.
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Broad Integration And Partnership Differentiate The Market Leaders
The evaluation uncovered a market in which (see Figure 2):
■	IBM, salesforce.com, Jive, Microsoft Office 365, Zimbra, and Tibco lead the pack. The
Leaders all offer very mature and, more importantly, very complete offerings. In addition, each
has differentiated in some critical area like integration with a broader portfolio or has provided
an established partner marketplace. The end result in each case is a robust core product offering
that extends the value through a broader ecosystem.
■	Sitrion, Neudesic, Microsoft Yammer, Atlassian, SAP, OpenText, and blueKiwi follow closely.
The Strong Performers each stand out in multiple areas of the evaluation, but are not as strong
across the board as the Leaders. For some vendors, notably Neudesic Pulse and Microsoft Yammer,
their standings in the Forrester Wave are more reflections of their heritage as activity stream
vendors. If your main concern is activity stream functionality, use the Forrester Wave controls to
adjust the weightings and identify the options that best serve that more narrow set of needs.
■	Socialcast by VMware focuses on activity stream. Socialcast is another offering that fairs better
in the activity-stream-focused version of this evaluation and is designed to be part of a larger
offering of knowledge-worker technologies from VMware.
This evaluation of the enterprise social platform market is intended to be a starting point only. We
encourage clients to view detailed product evaluations and adapt criteria weightings to fit their
individual needs through the Forrester Wave Excel-based vendor comparison tool.
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Figure 2 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Risky
Bets Contenders Leaders
Strong
Performers
StrategyWeak Strong
Current
offering
Weak
Strong
Go to Forrester.com to
download the Forrester
Wave tool for more
detailed product
evaluations, feature
comparisons, and
customizable rankings.
Market presence
Atlassian
blueKiwi
IBM
Jive
Microsoft
Office 365 + YammerMicrosoft Yammer
Neudesic
OpenText
salesforce.com
SAP
Sitrion
Tibco
Socialcast by VMware
Zimbra
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Figure 2 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 (Cont.)
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
IBM
Jive
MicrosoftOffice365
MicrosoftYammer
CURRENT OFFERING
Core functionality
Language localization
Architecture and
administration
Event logs, monitoring,
and reporting
Security
Cross-platform support
Engagement
workplace readiness
STRATEGY
Executive vision
and strategy
MARKET PRESENCE
Installed base
Employees
Partners
Forrester’s
Weighting
50%
40%
5%
10%
5%
10%
10%
20%
50%
100%
0%
34%
33%
33%
4.17
4.04
3.34
3.30
5.00
4.50
5.00
4.30
4.40
4.40
4.58
3.75
5.00
5.00
3.93
3.98
2.68
3.90
5.00
4.75
3.00
3.95
4.40
4.40
4.30
3.25
5.00
4.67
Atlassian
blueKiwi
2.52
2.44
3.68
2.30
3.00
2.75
1.00
3.00
3.80
3.80
3.33
3.00
2.00
5.00
2.34
2.63
1.34
2.30
3.00
4.00
1.50
1.45
3.40
3.40
2.10
1.00
4.00
1.34
3.50
3.54
5.00
2.90
3.34
4.25
3.50
3.00
4.80
4.80
4.66
4.00
5.00
5.00
2.96
2.37
5.00
2.70
3.00
4.25
3.50
2.85
3.40
3.40
3.17
2.25
4.00
3.30
Neudesic
OpenText
3.03
2.95
1.00
2.90
3.66
2.50
2.50
4.15
3.40
3.40
2.41
1.25
4.00
2.00
2.56
2.30
1.34
3.40
3.33
4.50
2.00
2.10
3.20
3.20
3.29
1.75
4.50
3.68
salesforce.com
SAP
Sitrion
Tibco
3.61
2.80
4.33
3.10
5.00
4.50
5.00
3.80
4.80
4.80
3.82
2.50
4.00
5.00
3.13
3.24
3.35
2.30
2.01
4.00
3.00
3.20
3.00
3.00
3.88
3.00
5.00
3.68
3.66
3.93
2.01
3.70
3.66
4.50
3.00
3.40
3.00
3.00
3.24
2.25
3.50
4.01
3.61
3.57
2.01
2.90
4.32
4.25
3.50
4.00
3.40
3.40
4.32
3.00
5.00
5.00SocialcastbyVMware
Zimbra
2.51
1.99
1.34
2.60
3.33
3.50
3.00
2.85
2.60
2.60
2.58
1.75
4.00
2.01
3.57
3.63
4.34
3.20
5.00
4.25
1.50
3.80
4.00
4.00
3.24
1.75
3.00
5.00
All scores are based on a scale of 0 (weak) to 5 (strong).
When The Focus Is On Activity Stream, The Landscape Shifts
While we are consolidating the social business and collaboration (SBC) and activity stream
categories in this Forrester Wave — mainly because we see a convergence taking place in the market
that must be reflected in our Forrester Wave analysis — we know that the needs of many clients can
be addressed by more narrow activity stream offerings. For these clients, we are breaking out a view
of the activity stream Forrester Wave data (see Figure 3):
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■	Salesforce Chatter and Tibco lead the pack. The Leaders both face a strong emphasis on
integration. In the case of Chatter, the integration is particularly compelling with salesforce
customer relationship management (CRM) and the other participants in the Force.com
platform. Tibbr thrives with Tibco middleware. Both offerings are functionally strong across the
board. Note that for the activity stream-focused analysis Forrester evaluated salesforce Chatter,
but for the broader analysis, Chatter and Communities were also evaluated.
■	Neudesic, Microsoft Yammer, SAP, and Socialcast by VMware are Strong Performers. Each
of the Strong Performers offers deep integration with a potentially critical asset. In the case
of Neudesic, the asset is SharePoint on the front-end and a variety of services on the back-
end. Yammer thrives in the Office 365 environment and with any SharePoint implementation.
SAP offers a compelling vision of social enabled business applications starting with legacy
SuccessFactors and moving to the full SAP portfolio over time. Socialcast augments the broader
VMware offerings.
Figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 — Activity Streams
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
Risky
Bets Contenders Leaders
Strong
Performers
StrategyWeak Strong
Current
offering
Weak
Strong
Go to Forrester.com to
download the Forrester
Wave tool for more
detailed product
evaluations, feature
comparisons, and
customizable rankings.
Market presence
Microsoft Yammer
Neudesic
salesforce.com
SAP
Socialcast by VMware
Tibco
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Figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 — Activity Streams (Cont.)
Source: Forrester Research, Inc.
MicrosoftYammer
Neudesic
salesforce.com
SAP
CURRENT OFFERING
Core functionality
Language localization
Architecture and administration
Event logs, monitoring, and reporting
Security
Cross-platform support
Engagement workplace readiness
STRATEGY
Executive vision and strategy
MARKET PRESENCE
Installed base
Employees
Partners
Forrester’s
Weighting
50%
40%
5%
10%
5%
10%
10%
20%
50%
100%
0%
34%
33%
33%
3.09
2.69
5.00
2.70
3.00
4.25
3.50
2.85
3.40
3.40
3.17
2.25
4.00
3.30
3.30
3.61
1.00
2.90
3.66
2.50
2.50
4.15
3.40
3.40
2.41
1.25
4.00
2.00
3.80
3.29
4.33
3.10
5.00
4.50
5.00
3.80
4.80
4.80
3.82
2.50
4.00
5.00
3.18
3.36
3.35
2.30
2.01
4.00
3.00
3.20
3.00
3.00
3.88
3.00
5.00
3.68
SocialcastbyVMware
Tibco
2.83
2.80
1.34
2.60
3.33
3.50
3.00
2.85
2.60
2.60
3.09
3.25
4.00
2.01
3.82
4.10
2.01
2.90
4.32
4.25
3.50
4.00
3.40
3.40
4.32
3.00
5.00
5.00
All scores are based on a scale of 0 (weak) to 5 (strong).
Vendor Profiles
Leaders
■	IBM Connections expands its scope. IBM continues to tap assets across its broad portfolio
to build the value of Connections. While there have been numerous enhancements since
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, two in particular have changed
the landscape for this offering. First, with the release of Connections 4.5 in April 2013, IBM
introduced robust, scalable document management with Connections Content Manager
and pushed the product into the role of a full engagement workplace rather than a focused
enterprise social solution. Second, with the increasing integration with Kenexa, IBM is bringing
social to talent management, both as an application (social in HR) and as a feature (talent
management integrated into other enterprise social applications). Connections shines if you are
looking for a broad robust offering with strong integration across the IBM portfolio.
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■	Salesforce Chatter leverages Communities. The last time we evaluated Chatter, the core
differentiator was the ability to integrate deeply with the broader salesforce CRM and salesforce
automation offerings. While those continue to drive value, Chatter now has deep integration
with salesforce Communities to create a bridge between employees and customers. Forrester
evaluated Chatter and Communities for the enterprise social platform portion of this analysis
and Chatter by itself for the activity stream portion. Because of its heritage, salesforce.com is
especially strong with applications focused on revenue generation — which is a particularly
crucial focus of the social business landscape. Chatter and Communities shine when you are
looking to create a bridge from salesforce CRM to your enterprise and your customers.
■	Jive thrives on user experience. Jive is the last of what was once a rich landscape of pure-play
enterprise social vendors. As others have been acquired or faded into the background of a
crowded vendor landscape, Jive continues to thrive by emphasizing user experience across all
devices. To that end, it has invested in areas like deep email integration with Microsoft Outlook
and purpose-built applications for mobile users to facilitate high-value functions like expertise
location. Jive also recently announced a partnership with Cisco to bring integrated Unified
Communications to the overall Jive social business offering. Jive shines when you require a best-
in-breed solution with an excellent user experience across all user environments and devices.
■	Microsoft Office 365 begins to fulfill the Yammer promise. As predicted by Forrester,
Microsoft has provided clear guidance that Yammer is the social engine for its offerings and
Yammer will be supported by the broader portfolio to provide adjacent capabilities.1
With Office
365, Microsoft begins the process of deeply integrating Yammer for social with SharePoint
for document management, team sites, and other functions. The next announced experience,
which is code-named Oslo and scheduled to be released by the end of 2014, will provide the
first unique Office 365 application that spans multiple applications to generate a social graph
and drive recommendations for workers. With the bundling of Yammer into Office 365 at
no charge, Microsoft can advance the platform as an integrated set of services rather than
disparate applications. Office 365 shines when you require a full suite of capabilities in a cloud
environment and desire integration and alignment with the broad Microsoft portfolio.
■	Zimbra Communities is still strong and is now part of a broader story. The offering was a
Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, under the name Telligent
and was rebranded following the acquisition of Zimbra. While it continues to be offered as a
standalone social offering, the company and product strategy will increasingly focus on a new
integrated worker experience that combines email, calendaring, task management, and enterprise
social capabilities. With this strategy, Zimbra will look to break down barriers between traditional
knowledge worker technologies and create a new and more compelling experience that accesses
functionality as integrated services to work in the context of each other. Zimbra shines for
organizations that are looking for a radically new and potentially very powerful user experience.
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■	Tibco tibbr expands its breadth of offering. Tibbr was a Leader in The Forrester Wave™:
Activities Streams, Q2 2012, and, as this Forrester Wave shows, remains a viable offering for
organizations looking for focused activity stream functionality. However, Tibco has grown the
offering to become a much more robust enterprise social platform offering, particularly when
paired with pre-integrated offerings like Huddle for document collaboration. Tibbr is also at
the forefront of leveraging geolocation for situational analysis to target content and expertise
recommendations. Tibbr shines when it is aligned with Tibco’s middleware as a strategy to
socially enable a broad heterogeneous computing environment.
Strong Performers
■	Sitrion Social adds integration to core social to extend SharePoint. Sitrion (formerly
NewsGator Technologies) is the only offering evaluated that runs natively on Microsoft
SharePoint. With Microsoft’s recent guidance that Yammer will be its recommended social
solution, Sitrion becomes a preferred solution for organizations seeking high quality enterprise
on-premises social to fully complement SharePoint. Sitrion extends the on-premises value
proposition with deep back-end line-of-business integration and a strategy to drive social
business solutions through horizontal application specialization. While representing a unique
and compelling on-premises solution, Sitrion also offers a wide array of deployment options,
including a cloud option. Sitrion shines when best-in-class enterprise social for on an on-
premises implementation meets line-of-business integration.
■	Neudesic Pulse places focus on integration to drive vertical processes. Pulse is designed to
leverage the full value of a pure on-premises solution. To that end, it thrives in highly regulated
and highly secure deployments. Neudesic has a long history of providing custom application
solutions through its professional services and software products arms and leverages Pulse as a
productized extension of that strategy, allowing the development of social-enabled extensions
to existing line-of-business applications. Pulse also offers deep integration with Microsoft
SharePoint for organizations looking to provide best-in-class social in an on-premises model.
Pulse shines in an on-premises environment where deep and meaningful line-of-business
integration, supported by a strong professional services offering, is required.
■	Microsoft Yammer focuses on a defined role in a bigger offering. With Yammer now fully
absorbed by Microsoft, the process of defining the role of the offering in relation to the overall
portfolio is well underway. To that end, many of the product enhancements that were in process
during The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012, such as document integration and
page publishing, have been removed and are now handled by other Microsoft solutions, mainly
SharePoint. The strategy allows Yammer to play the primary role of providing social capabilities
to the entirety of the Microsoft portfolio. This concentration pushes Yammer into a more
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focused niche as a standalone offering, but offers the best strategy for customers using multiple
Office solutions and is particularly powerful in the context of Office 365. Yammer shines when
an outstanding user experience is required, particularly when coupled with SharePoint and the
rest of the Microsoft portfolio.
■	Atlassian Confluence extends from social content authoring to a full social platform.
Confluence began life as a wiki designed for tech management professionals and has grown into a
full enterprise social platform. Atlassian has kept the offering true to its roots with deep integration
with its JIRA issue tracking application, but has expanded Confluence to be relevant to a broader
business audience. With the addition of true social capabilities, such as a robust activity stream
and deep integration with its HipChat real-time chat and document sharing application, Atlassian
offers a wide array of knowledge-worker technologies. Confluence shines when enterprise social
complements a new way to manage overall knowledge worker content management.
■	SAP Jam makes a solid entry to a crowded market. SAP has taken a circuitous path to enterprise
social but is quickly getting its bearings. Jam is well positioned as a general-use enterprise social
product and could be a very valuable addition to SAP’s overall portfolio over time. The baseline
technology was originally from CubeTree which came to SAP via the SuccessFactors acquisition.
The technology has been extended, including rebuilding much of the functional capability that
was originally part of SAP’s homegrown StreamWork offering. The result is a pure software-as-
a-service (SaaS) offering that, while still young, represents a strong offering. Integration between
SuccessFactors and SAP is strong, and SAP has a vision of “social enabling” much of its application
portfolio. More importantly, SAP recently announced platform capabilities that are accessible to
third-party developers and partners. With this strategy now in place, SAP has the opportunity to
extend Jam to a strong position across a significant partner ecosystem.
■	OpenText Tempo takes on its role as part of content’s life cycle. OpenText provides end-
to-end management of content, from Tempo for enterprise social all the way to back-end
archiving and management. Tempo fits in that continuum as a social layer for the back-end
system of record as well as the OpenText Portal. Organizations that depend on OpenText for
content management and require diligent management of social content and communications
should look to Tempo as an extension of the overall OpenText investment. Tempo shines when
deployed as a social layer of an overall OpenText information management strategy.
■	BlueKiwi supports the Atos Zero email initiative. Atos garnered a lot of media attention a few
years ago with its Zero email initiative. Soon thereafter it acquired French enterprise social
vendor blueKiwi and began raking in the benefits of its approach to customers. It has had
particular success for a variety of reasons, but mainly because of its large footprint of professional
services. The fact that blueKiwi is offered primarily as a SaaS offering from a European company
and is housed in a European data center appeals to European customers concerned about the
effects of the US Patriot Act and National Security Agency (NSA) activity on US-based data
centers. However, beyond that, the combination of a strong social offering in the form of
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blueKiwi and change management support from Atos creates a compelling story for getting to
enterprise social adoption and business value in an accelerated fashion. BlueKiwi shines when
SaaS is the preferred deployment mechanism and when coupled with through leadership on
redefining knowledge-worker communications away from email. It is especially compelling for
customers looking for a solution from a European vendor that uses European data centers.
Contenders
■	Socialcast by VMware stays the course. VMware continues to build its offering for knowledge
workers with Socialcast ultimately becoming the social layer to other VMware technologies
like the document collaboration capabilities from recently acquired AirWatch. Socialcast offers
strong standalone capabilities as well, with a focus on the activity stream as a central point of
interaction. To that end, Forrester includes Socialcast as an enterprise social platform vendor
but the offering fairs better in the activity stream-focused analysis. Socialcast shines when
coupled with the broader VMware portfolio and end user strategy.
Supplemental Material
Online Resource
The online versions of Figure 2 and Figure 3 are Excel-based vendor comparison tools that provide
detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings.
Data Sources Used In This Forrester Wave
Forrester used a combination of four data sources to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each
solution:
■	Hands-on lab evaluations. Vendors spent half day with a team of analysts who performed a
hands-on evaluation of the product using a scenario-based testing methodology. We evaluated
each product using the same scenario(s), creating a level playing field by evaluating every
product on the same criteria.
■	Vendor surveys. Forrester surveyed vendors on their capabilities as they relate to the evaluation
criteria. Once we analyzed the completed vendor surveys, we conducted vendor calls where
necessary to gather details of vendor qualifications.
■	Product demos. We asked vendors to conduct demonstrations of their product’s functionality. We
used findings from these product demos to validate details of each vendor’s product capabilities.
■	Customer reference calls. To validate product and vendor qualifications, Forrester also
conducted reference calls with two to three of each vendor’s current customers.
For CIOs
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© 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014
The Forrester Wave Methodology
We conduct primary research to develop a list of vendors that meet our criteria to be evaluated
in this market. From that initial pool of vendors, we then narrow our final list. We choose these
vendors based on: 1) product fit; 2) customer success; and 3) Forrester client demand. We eliminate
vendors that have limited customer references and products that don’t fit the scope of our evaluation.
After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we develop
the initial evaluation criteria. To evaluate the vendors and their products against our set of criteria, we
gather details of product qualifications through a combination of lab evaluations, questionnaires,
demos, and/or discussions with client references. We send evaluations to the vendors for their review,
and we adjust the evaluations to provide the most accurate view of vendor offerings and strategies.
We set default weightings to reflect our analysis of the needs of large user companies — and/or other
scenarios as outlined in the Forrester Wave document — and then score the vendors based on a
clearly defined scale. These default weightings are intended only as a starting point, and we encourage
readers to adapt the weightings to fit their individual needs through the Excel-based tool. The final
scores generate the graphical depiction of the market based on current offering, strategy, and market
presence. Forrester intends to update vendor evaluations regularly as product capabilities and vendor
strategies evolve. For more information on the methodology that every Forrester Wave follows, go to
http://www.forrester.com/marketing/policies/forrester-wave-methodology.html.
Integrity Policy
All of Forrester’s research, including Forrester Waves, is conducted according to our Integrity Policy.
For more information, go to http://www.forrester.com/marketing/policies/integrity-policy.html.
Endnotes
1
	 We predicted that Microsoft would become increasing dependent on Yammer for social and the cloud as a
preferred deployment option for customers. For more, see the August 13, 2013, “Is Yammer + SharePoint
Right For You” report.
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The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014

  • 1. Forrester Research, Inc., 60 Acorn Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA Tel: +1 617.613.6000 | Fax: +1 617.613.5000 | www.forrester.com The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 by Rob Koplowitz, June 5, 2014 For: CIOs Key Takeaways IBM, Microsoft, And Salesforce.com Are Forrester Wave Leaders And In A Position To Be Market Leaders Forrester’s research uncovered a market in which IBM Connections, salesforce Chatter and Communities, Jive, Microsoft Office 365, Zimbra Communities, and Tibco tibbr lead the pack. Sitrion, Neudesic, Microsoft Yammer, Atlassian, SAP, OpenText, and blueKiwi offer competitive options. Socialcast by VMware lags behind. The Market Is No Longer Nascent -- At Least In Terms Of Functionality While there are still many offerings and the market remains chaotic, the offerings are converging in terms of functional sets. Most products now offer robust activity streams, blogs, wikis, and profiles, and the battleground for differentiation has moved to integration, analytics, and partner ecosystems. Market Leaders Are Emerging Enterprise social has become increasingly integrated with adjacent technologies, such as document collaboration, portals, and line-of-business applications like customer relationship management. To that end, vendors with significant leverage like IBM, Microsoft, and salesforce.com will become more dominant on customers’ shortlists. Market Leadership Will Drive Dominant Ecosystems Enterprise social does not live in isolation. It thrives with business-specific horizontal and vertical extensions. As market leaders emerge, partner ecosystems will follow to exploit the best market opportunities. Leaders will become even more dominant as broader partner ecosystems increasingly equate to broader and deeper capabilities.
  • 2. © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited. Information is based on best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Forrester® , Technographics® , Forrester Wave, RoleView, TechRadar, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. To purchase reprints of this document, please email clientsupport@forrester.com. For additional information, go to www.forrester.com. For CIOs Why Read This Report In Forrester’s 65-criteria evaluation of enterprise social platform vendors, we identified the 13 most significant solution providers — Atlassian, blueKiwi, IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Neudesic, OpenText, salesforce. com, SAP, Sitrion, Socialcast by VMware, Tibco, and Zimbra — in the category and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This Forrester Wave replaces two previous Forrester Waves —The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011 and The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012 — because market conditions have forced these two categories to consolidate. There also has been significant vendor attrition over that period, e.g., Jive is now the only pure-play enterprise social vendor. This report details our findings about how well each solution fulfills our criteria and where each stands in relation to one another in order to help CIO professionals select the right partner for their enterprise social platform. Table Of Contents Enterprise Social Platform Market Matures Amid Consolidation And Integration Enterprise Social Platform Evaluation Overview Broad Integration And Partnership Differentiate The Market Leaders When The Focus Is On Activity Stream, The Landscape Shifts Vendor Profiles Supplemental Material Notes & Resources Forrester conducted lab-based evaluations and interviewed over 50 vendor and user companies, including Atlassian, blueKiwi, IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Neudesic, OpenText, salesforce.com, SAP, Sitrion, Tibco, VMware, and Zimbra. Related Research Documents Brief: Your Next Portal Should Be An Engagement Workplace February 3, 2014 Microsoft Aims SharePoint To The Cloud January 27, 2014 Setting The Technology Foundation For Your Social Business And Collaboration Strategy July 29, 2013 The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up by Rob Koplowitz with Peter Burris and Nancy Wang 2 2 5 7 9 13 June 5, 2014
  • 3. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 2 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Enterprise Social Platform Market Matures Amid Consolidation And Integration The enterprise social platform is no longer in its infancy as offerings become increasingly functional. At the same time, market dynamics are driving well-placed offerings into leadership positions based upon sales reach, portfolio integration, and bundling options. Dominant Vendors Pursue Market Share While Others Differentiate As this market matures, some vendors have begun to differentiate their offerings. For example, Telligent, a Leader in the last enterprise social platform (ESP) Forrester Wave, acquired Zimbra from VMware and is working on a new offering that integrates email and enterprise social into a new knowledge experience. Telligent targets medium-sized enterprises with this evolved offering and it has gained significant traction in Europe and Asia. Sitrion (formerly known as NewsGator Technologies) and Neudesic are focused on on-premises implementations that provide deep integration with SharePoint and back-end line-of-business applications. Strategies that provide long-term differentiation will become increasingly important as large vendors with significant marketing and sales resources, as well as deep experience with knowledge workers, begin to flex their muscles. Three in particular are well positioned — IBM, Microsoft, and salesforce.com are all Leaders in this Forrester Wave. Once Disparate Offerings Converge, But Not Completely The last time Forrester evaluated this space, we produced two distinct Forrester Waves: The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011 and The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012. Since that time, many activity stream vendors have grown their offerings and the overlap with broader enterprise social platforms has become much larger. In light of these changes, we have combined the Forrester Waves and have created a second set of weightings, scorecards, and graphics for clients that require a more focused activity stream. In the activity stream version, salesforce. com is represented by Chatter, but in the enterprise social platform version, it is represented by a combination of Chatter and Communities. Enterprise Social Platform Evaluation Overview To assess the state of the enterprise social platform market and see how the vendors stack up against one another, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top enterprise social platform vendors.
  • 4. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 3 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Evaluation Criteria Cover Current Offering, Strategy, And Market Presence After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we developed a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria. We evaluated vendors against 65 criteria, which we grouped into three high-level buckets: ■ Current offering. To assess product strength, we evaluated each offering against seven groups of criteria: 1) core functionality; 2) language support; 3) architecture and administration; 4) event logs, monitoring, and reporting; 5) security; 6) cross-platform support; and 7) engagement workplace readiness. ■ Strategy. We reviewed each vendor’s strategy, management team, and road map, evaluating how well the vendor’s planned enhancements will position it for market leadership and whether or not the vendor has the resources to support that strategy. ■ Market presence. To determine a vendor’s market presence, we evaluated each vendor’s financial performance, installed base, integration partners, professional services, number of employees, and technology partners. Evaluated Vendors Have Broad Capabilities, Market Presence, And Client Interests Forrester included 13 vendors in the assessment: Atlassian, blueKiwi, IBM, Jive, Microsoft, Neudesic, OpenText, salesforce.com, SAP, Sitrion, Socialcast by VMware, Tibco, and Zimbra. Each of these vendors has (see Figure 1): ■ Offered a breadth of social capabilities. Participating vendors were required to have most or all of the following: profiles, user home page, activity streams, community/group capabilities, tagging, discussion threads, blog, and wiki. This implies a broad array of social capabilities that represents a fairly level field of comparison. ■ Provided three references of customers in production. As vendors enter this crowded market on a regular basis, Forrester requires vendors to demonstrate a basic level of market presence and staying power. ■ Received frequent consideration in enterprise social strategy or collaboration strategy. In order to maintain the Forrester Wave at a manageable number of vendors, Forrester queried our internal customer relationship management system and solicited feedback from appropriate analysts to help determine which vendors were most highly relevant to Forrester clients.
  • 5. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 4 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Figure 1 Evaluated Vendors: Product Information And Vendor Selection Criteria Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Vendor Atlassian blueKiwi IBM Jive Microsoft Microsoft Neudesic OpenText salesforce.com SAP Sitrion VMware Tibco Zimbra Product evaluated* Confluence blueKiwi Connections Jive Office 365 (including Yammer) Yammer Neudesic Pulse OpenText Tempo Social Chatter and Communities Jam Sitrion Social Socialcast tibbr Zimbra Community Vendor selection criteria Vendors offered a breadth of social capabilities. Participating vendors were required to have most or all of the following: profiles, user home page, activity streams, community/group capabilities, tagging, discussion threads, blog, and wiki. This implies a broad array of social capabilities that represents a fairly level field of comparison. Vendors provided three references of customers in production. As vendors enter this crowded market on a regular basis, Forrester requires vendors to demonstrate a basic level of market presence and staying power. Vendors received frequent consideration in enterprise social strategy or collaboration strategy. In order to maintain the Forrester Wave at a manageable number of vendors, Forrester queried our internal customer relationship management system and solicited feedback from appropriate analysts to help determine which vendors were most highly relevant to Forrester clients. *All products evaluated were generally available as of February 2014.
  • 6. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 5 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Broad Integration And Partnership Differentiate The Market Leaders The evaluation uncovered a market in which (see Figure 2): ■ IBM, salesforce.com, Jive, Microsoft Office 365, Zimbra, and Tibco lead the pack. The Leaders all offer very mature and, more importantly, very complete offerings. In addition, each has differentiated in some critical area like integration with a broader portfolio or has provided an established partner marketplace. The end result in each case is a robust core product offering that extends the value through a broader ecosystem. ■ Sitrion, Neudesic, Microsoft Yammer, Atlassian, SAP, OpenText, and blueKiwi follow closely. The Strong Performers each stand out in multiple areas of the evaluation, but are not as strong across the board as the Leaders. For some vendors, notably Neudesic Pulse and Microsoft Yammer, their standings in the Forrester Wave are more reflections of their heritage as activity stream vendors. If your main concern is activity stream functionality, use the Forrester Wave controls to adjust the weightings and identify the options that best serve that more narrow set of needs. ■ Socialcast by VMware focuses on activity stream. Socialcast is another offering that fairs better in the activity-stream-focused version of this evaluation and is designed to be part of a larger offering of knowledge-worker technologies from VMware. This evaluation of the enterprise social platform market is intended to be a starting point only. We encourage clients to view detailed product evaluations and adapt criteria weightings to fit their individual needs through the Forrester Wave Excel-based vendor comparison tool.
  • 7. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 6 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Figure 2 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Risky Bets Contenders Leaders Strong Performers StrategyWeak Strong Current offering Weak Strong Go to Forrester.com to download the Forrester Wave tool for more detailed product evaluations, feature comparisons, and customizable rankings. Market presence Atlassian blueKiwi IBM Jive Microsoft Office 365 + YammerMicrosoft Yammer Neudesic OpenText salesforce.com SAP Sitrion Tibco Socialcast by VMware Zimbra
  • 8. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 7 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Figure 2 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 (Cont.) Source: Forrester Research, Inc. IBM Jive MicrosoftOffice365 MicrosoftYammer CURRENT OFFERING Core functionality Language localization Architecture and administration Event logs, monitoring, and reporting Security Cross-platform support Engagement workplace readiness STRATEGY Executive vision and strategy MARKET PRESENCE Installed base Employees Partners Forrester’s Weighting 50% 40% 5% 10% 5% 10% 10% 20% 50% 100% 0% 34% 33% 33% 4.17 4.04 3.34 3.30 5.00 4.50 5.00 4.30 4.40 4.40 4.58 3.75 5.00 5.00 3.93 3.98 2.68 3.90 5.00 4.75 3.00 3.95 4.40 4.40 4.30 3.25 5.00 4.67 Atlassian blueKiwi 2.52 2.44 3.68 2.30 3.00 2.75 1.00 3.00 3.80 3.80 3.33 3.00 2.00 5.00 2.34 2.63 1.34 2.30 3.00 4.00 1.50 1.45 3.40 3.40 2.10 1.00 4.00 1.34 3.50 3.54 5.00 2.90 3.34 4.25 3.50 3.00 4.80 4.80 4.66 4.00 5.00 5.00 2.96 2.37 5.00 2.70 3.00 4.25 3.50 2.85 3.40 3.40 3.17 2.25 4.00 3.30 Neudesic OpenText 3.03 2.95 1.00 2.90 3.66 2.50 2.50 4.15 3.40 3.40 2.41 1.25 4.00 2.00 2.56 2.30 1.34 3.40 3.33 4.50 2.00 2.10 3.20 3.20 3.29 1.75 4.50 3.68 salesforce.com SAP Sitrion Tibco 3.61 2.80 4.33 3.10 5.00 4.50 5.00 3.80 4.80 4.80 3.82 2.50 4.00 5.00 3.13 3.24 3.35 2.30 2.01 4.00 3.00 3.20 3.00 3.00 3.88 3.00 5.00 3.68 3.66 3.93 2.01 3.70 3.66 4.50 3.00 3.40 3.00 3.00 3.24 2.25 3.50 4.01 3.61 3.57 2.01 2.90 4.32 4.25 3.50 4.00 3.40 3.40 4.32 3.00 5.00 5.00SocialcastbyVMware Zimbra 2.51 1.99 1.34 2.60 3.33 3.50 3.00 2.85 2.60 2.60 2.58 1.75 4.00 2.01 3.57 3.63 4.34 3.20 5.00 4.25 1.50 3.80 4.00 4.00 3.24 1.75 3.00 5.00 All scores are based on a scale of 0 (weak) to 5 (strong). When The Focus Is On Activity Stream, The Landscape Shifts While we are consolidating the social business and collaboration (SBC) and activity stream categories in this Forrester Wave — mainly because we see a convergence taking place in the market that must be reflected in our Forrester Wave analysis — we know that the needs of many clients can be addressed by more narrow activity stream offerings. For these clients, we are breaking out a view of the activity stream Forrester Wave data (see Figure 3):
  • 9. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 8 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 ■ Salesforce Chatter and Tibco lead the pack. The Leaders both face a strong emphasis on integration. In the case of Chatter, the integration is particularly compelling with salesforce customer relationship management (CRM) and the other participants in the Force.com platform. Tibbr thrives with Tibco middleware. Both offerings are functionally strong across the board. Note that for the activity stream-focused analysis Forrester evaluated salesforce Chatter, but for the broader analysis, Chatter and Communities were also evaluated. ■ Neudesic, Microsoft Yammer, SAP, and Socialcast by VMware are Strong Performers. Each of the Strong Performers offers deep integration with a potentially critical asset. In the case of Neudesic, the asset is SharePoint on the front-end and a variety of services on the back- end. Yammer thrives in the Office 365 environment and with any SharePoint implementation. SAP offers a compelling vision of social enabled business applications starting with legacy SuccessFactors and moving to the full SAP portfolio over time. Socialcast augments the broader VMware offerings. Figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 — Activity Streams Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Risky Bets Contenders Leaders Strong Performers StrategyWeak Strong Current offering Weak Strong Go to Forrester.com to download the Forrester Wave tool for more detailed product evaluations, feature comparisons, and customizable rankings. Market presence Microsoft Yammer Neudesic salesforce.com SAP Socialcast by VMware Tibco
  • 10. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 9 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 Figure 3 Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 ’14 — Activity Streams (Cont.) Source: Forrester Research, Inc. MicrosoftYammer Neudesic salesforce.com SAP CURRENT OFFERING Core functionality Language localization Architecture and administration Event logs, monitoring, and reporting Security Cross-platform support Engagement workplace readiness STRATEGY Executive vision and strategy MARKET PRESENCE Installed base Employees Partners Forrester’s Weighting 50% 40% 5% 10% 5% 10% 10% 20% 50% 100% 0% 34% 33% 33% 3.09 2.69 5.00 2.70 3.00 4.25 3.50 2.85 3.40 3.40 3.17 2.25 4.00 3.30 3.30 3.61 1.00 2.90 3.66 2.50 2.50 4.15 3.40 3.40 2.41 1.25 4.00 2.00 3.80 3.29 4.33 3.10 5.00 4.50 5.00 3.80 4.80 4.80 3.82 2.50 4.00 5.00 3.18 3.36 3.35 2.30 2.01 4.00 3.00 3.20 3.00 3.00 3.88 3.00 5.00 3.68 SocialcastbyVMware Tibco 2.83 2.80 1.34 2.60 3.33 3.50 3.00 2.85 2.60 2.60 3.09 3.25 4.00 2.01 3.82 4.10 2.01 2.90 4.32 4.25 3.50 4.00 3.40 3.40 4.32 3.00 5.00 5.00 All scores are based on a scale of 0 (weak) to 5 (strong). Vendor Profiles Leaders ■ IBM Connections expands its scope. IBM continues to tap assets across its broad portfolio to build the value of Connections. While there have been numerous enhancements since The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, two in particular have changed the landscape for this offering. First, with the release of Connections 4.5 in April 2013, IBM introduced robust, scalable document management with Connections Content Manager and pushed the product into the role of a full engagement workplace rather than a focused enterprise social solution. Second, with the increasing integration with Kenexa, IBM is bringing social to talent management, both as an application (social in HR) and as a feature (talent management integrated into other enterprise social applications). Connections shines if you are looking for a broad robust offering with strong integration across the IBM portfolio.
  • 11. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 10 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 ■ Salesforce Chatter leverages Communities. The last time we evaluated Chatter, the core differentiator was the ability to integrate deeply with the broader salesforce CRM and salesforce automation offerings. While those continue to drive value, Chatter now has deep integration with salesforce Communities to create a bridge between employees and customers. Forrester evaluated Chatter and Communities for the enterprise social platform portion of this analysis and Chatter by itself for the activity stream portion. Because of its heritage, salesforce.com is especially strong with applications focused on revenue generation — which is a particularly crucial focus of the social business landscape. Chatter and Communities shine when you are looking to create a bridge from salesforce CRM to your enterprise and your customers. ■ Jive thrives on user experience. Jive is the last of what was once a rich landscape of pure-play enterprise social vendors. As others have been acquired or faded into the background of a crowded vendor landscape, Jive continues to thrive by emphasizing user experience across all devices. To that end, it has invested in areas like deep email integration with Microsoft Outlook and purpose-built applications for mobile users to facilitate high-value functions like expertise location. Jive also recently announced a partnership with Cisco to bring integrated Unified Communications to the overall Jive social business offering. Jive shines when you require a best- in-breed solution with an excellent user experience across all user environments and devices. ■ Microsoft Office 365 begins to fulfill the Yammer promise. As predicted by Forrester, Microsoft has provided clear guidance that Yammer is the social engine for its offerings and Yammer will be supported by the broader portfolio to provide adjacent capabilities.1 With Office 365, Microsoft begins the process of deeply integrating Yammer for social with SharePoint for document management, team sites, and other functions. The next announced experience, which is code-named Oslo and scheduled to be released by the end of 2014, will provide the first unique Office 365 application that spans multiple applications to generate a social graph and drive recommendations for workers. With the bundling of Yammer into Office 365 at no charge, Microsoft can advance the platform as an integrated set of services rather than disparate applications. Office 365 shines when you require a full suite of capabilities in a cloud environment and desire integration and alignment with the broad Microsoft portfolio. ■ Zimbra Communities is still strong and is now part of a broader story. The offering was a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q3 2011, under the name Telligent and was rebranded following the acquisition of Zimbra. While it continues to be offered as a standalone social offering, the company and product strategy will increasingly focus on a new integrated worker experience that combines email, calendaring, task management, and enterprise social capabilities. With this strategy, Zimbra will look to break down barriers between traditional knowledge worker technologies and create a new and more compelling experience that accesses functionality as integrated services to work in the context of each other. Zimbra shines for organizations that are looking for a radically new and potentially very powerful user experience.
  • 12. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 11 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 ■ Tibco tibbr expands its breadth of offering. Tibbr was a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012, and, as this Forrester Wave shows, remains a viable offering for organizations looking for focused activity stream functionality. However, Tibco has grown the offering to become a much more robust enterprise social platform offering, particularly when paired with pre-integrated offerings like Huddle for document collaboration. Tibbr is also at the forefront of leveraging geolocation for situational analysis to target content and expertise recommendations. Tibbr shines when it is aligned with Tibco’s middleware as a strategy to socially enable a broad heterogeneous computing environment. Strong Performers ■ Sitrion Social adds integration to core social to extend SharePoint. Sitrion (formerly NewsGator Technologies) is the only offering evaluated that runs natively on Microsoft SharePoint. With Microsoft’s recent guidance that Yammer will be its recommended social solution, Sitrion becomes a preferred solution for organizations seeking high quality enterprise on-premises social to fully complement SharePoint. Sitrion extends the on-premises value proposition with deep back-end line-of-business integration and a strategy to drive social business solutions through horizontal application specialization. While representing a unique and compelling on-premises solution, Sitrion also offers a wide array of deployment options, including a cloud option. Sitrion shines when best-in-class enterprise social for on an on- premises implementation meets line-of-business integration. ■ Neudesic Pulse places focus on integration to drive vertical processes. Pulse is designed to leverage the full value of a pure on-premises solution. To that end, it thrives in highly regulated and highly secure deployments. Neudesic has a long history of providing custom application solutions through its professional services and software products arms and leverages Pulse as a productized extension of that strategy, allowing the development of social-enabled extensions to existing line-of-business applications. Pulse also offers deep integration with Microsoft SharePoint for organizations looking to provide best-in-class social in an on-premises model. Pulse shines in an on-premises environment where deep and meaningful line-of-business integration, supported by a strong professional services offering, is required. ■ Microsoft Yammer focuses on a defined role in a bigger offering. With Yammer now fully absorbed by Microsoft, the process of defining the role of the offering in relation to the overall portfolio is well underway. To that end, many of the product enhancements that were in process during The Forrester Wave™: Activities Streams, Q2 2012, such as document integration and page publishing, have been removed and are now handled by other Microsoft solutions, mainly SharePoint. The strategy allows Yammer to play the primary role of providing social capabilities to the entirety of the Microsoft portfolio. This concentration pushes Yammer into a more
  • 13. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 12 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 focused niche as a standalone offering, but offers the best strategy for customers using multiple Office solutions and is particularly powerful in the context of Office 365. Yammer shines when an outstanding user experience is required, particularly when coupled with SharePoint and the rest of the Microsoft portfolio. ■ Atlassian Confluence extends from social content authoring to a full social platform. Confluence began life as a wiki designed for tech management professionals and has grown into a full enterprise social platform. Atlassian has kept the offering true to its roots with deep integration with its JIRA issue tracking application, but has expanded Confluence to be relevant to a broader business audience. With the addition of true social capabilities, such as a robust activity stream and deep integration with its HipChat real-time chat and document sharing application, Atlassian offers a wide array of knowledge-worker technologies. Confluence shines when enterprise social complements a new way to manage overall knowledge worker content management. ■ SAP Jam makes a solid entry to a crowded market. SAP has taken a circuitous path to enterprise social but is quickly getting its bearings. Jam is well positioned as a general-use enterprise social product and could be a very valuable addition to SAP’s overall portfolio over time. The baseline technology was originally from CubeTree which came to SAP via the SuccessFactors acquisition. The technology has been extended, including rebuilding much of the functional capability that was originally part of SAP’s homegrown StreamWork offering. The result is a pure software-as- a-service (SaaS) offering that, while still young, represents a strong offering. Integration between SuccessFactors and SAP is strong, and SAP has a vision of “social enabling” much of its application portfolio. More importantly, SAP recently announced platform capabilities that are accessible to third-party developers and partners. With this strategy now in place, SAP has the opportunity to extend Jam to a strong position across a significant partner ecosystem. ■ OpenText Tempo takes on its role as part of content’s life cycle. OpenText provides end- to-end management of content, from Tempo for enterprise social all the way to back-end archiving and management. Tempo fits in that continuum as a social layer for the back-end system of record as well as the OpenText Portal. Organizations that depend on OpenText for content management and require diligent management of social content and communications should look to Tempo as an extension of the overall OpenText investment. Tempo shines when deployed as a social layer of an overall OpenText information management strategy. ■ BlueKiwi supports the Atos Zero email initiative. Atos garnered a lot of media attention a few years ago with its Zero email initiative. Soon thereafter it acquired French enterprise social vendor blueKiwi and began raking in the benefits of its approach to customers. It has had particular success for a variety of reasons, but mainly because of its large footprint of professional services. The fact that blueKiwi is offered primarily as a SaaS offering from a European company and is housed in a European data center appeals to European customers concerned about the effects of the US Patriot Act and National Security Agency (NSA) activity on US-based data centers. However, beyond that, the combination of a strong social offering in the form of
  • 14. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 13 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 blueKiwi and change management support from Atos creates a compelling story for getting to enterprise social adoption and business value in an accelerated fashion. BlueKiwi shines when SaaS is the preferred deployment mechanism and when coupled with through leadership on redefining knowledge-worker communications away from email. It is especially compelling for customers looking for a solution from a European vendor that uses European data centers. Contenders ■ Socialcast by VMware stays the course. VMware continues to build its offering for knowledge workers with Socialcast ultimately becoming the social layer to other VMware technologies like the document collaboration capabilities from recently acquired AirWatch. Socialcast offers strong standalone capabilities as well, with a focus on the activity stream as a central point of interaction. To that end, Forrester includes Socialcast as an enterprise social platform vendor but the offering fairs better in the activity stream-focused analysis. Socialcast shines when coupled with the broader VMware portfolio and end user strategy. Supplemental Material Online Resource The online versions of Figure 2 and Figure 3 are Excel-based vendor comparison tools that provide detailed product evaluations and customizable rankings. Data Sources Used In This Forrester Wave Forrester used a combination of four data sources to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each solution: ■ Hands-on lab evaluations. Vendors spent half day with a team of analysts who performed a hands-on evaluation of the product using a scenario-based testing methodology. We evaluated each product using the same scenario(s), creating a level playing field by evaluating every product on the same criteria. ■ Vendor surveys. Forrester surveyed vendors on their capabilities as they relate to the evaluation criteria. Once we analyzed the completed vendor surveys, we conducted vendor calls where necessary to gather details of vendor qualifications. ■ Product demos. We asked vendors to conduct demonstrations of their product’s functionality. We used findings from these product demos to validate details of each vendor’s product capabilities. ■ Customer reference calls. To validate product and vendor qualifications, Forrester also conducted reference calls with two to three of each vendor’s current customers.
  • 15. For CIOs The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Social Platforms, Q2 2014 14 © 2014, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 5, 2014 The Forrester Wave Methodology We conduct primary research to develop a list of vendors that meet our criteria to be evaluated in this market. From that initial pool of vendors, we then narrow our final list. We choose these vendors based on: 1) product fit; 2) customer success; and 3) Forrester client demand. We eliminate vendors that have limited customer references and products that don’t fit the scope of our evaluation. After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, we develop the initial evaluation criteria. To evaluate the vendors and their products against our set of criteria, we gather details of product qualifications through a combination of lab evaluations, questionnaires, demos, and/or discussions with client references. We send evaluations to the vendors for their review, and we adjust the evaluations to provide the most accurate view of vendor offerings and strategies. We set default weightings to reflect our analysis of the needs of large user companies — and/or other scenarios as outlined in the Forrester Wave document — and then score the vendors based on a clearly defined scale. These default weightings are intended only as a starting point, and we encourage readers to adapt the weightings to fit their individual needs through the Excel-based tool. The final scores generate the graphical depiction of the market based on current offering, strategy, and market presence. Forrester intends to update vendor evaluations regularly as product capabilities and vendor strategies evolve. For more information on the methodology that every Forrester Wave follows, go to http://www.forrester.com/marketing/policies/forrester-wave-methodology.html. Integrity Policy All of Forrester’s research, including Forrester Waves, is conducted according to our Integrity Policy. For more information, go to http://www.forrester.com/marketing/policies/integrity-policy.html. Endnotes 1 We predicted that Microsoft would become increasing dependent on Yammer for social and the cloud as a preferred deployment option for customers. For more, see the August 13, 2013, “Is Yammer + SharePoint Right For You” report.
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