Hot trends by Yammer, Jive, NewsGator - video, social analytics, gamification

Leading social software vendors Yammer, Jive, NewsGator updated their products and showed us the latest trends, transforming the corporate social networks. Yammer has released the desktop AIR-client (Win and Mac), added the ability to post videos in microblog posts, reward colleagues with badges for completed tasks (we have already seen such gamification in Rypple and Producteev), and realized the integration with NetSuite, reminding the bunch Salesforce + Chatter. NewsGator in its new version of NewsGator Social Sites 2 focused on improving the Sharepoint video capabilities (recall, Newsgator Social Sites works on top of the Sharepoint). Like in Yammer, videos can now be easily inserted into microblog messages and besides they are added to the video gallery (something like YouTube for the Enterprise) where all the social capabilities can also be utilized - comments, rating, likes:



Regarding the new version Jive 5, it features the social intelligence tools - the system now recommends to user those materials and those employees that may be interesting and useful for him. Thus, the user sees the most important and useful information, and the "social noise" is filtered. Such social recommendations we have seen in Lotus Connections. In addition, the new version of Jive is tightly integrated to MS Office and also provides its own marketplace of (integrated) applications - Jive Apps Market.

See also: Top 10 Enterprise Social Software