Socialtext Connect a Missing Link for Enterprise Apps?

, June 17, 2010

Socialtext Connect includes three core components. Connectors serve a kind of bridge between Socialtext and either an on-premises and cloud-based enterprise application. The company already has pre-built Connectors to SharePoint and Lotus Connections available, and IT developers, system integrators and other developers can use Socialtext's ReST API to build new Connectors.

"What we're trying to establish is that there should be a social layer in every enterprise architecture rather than a social application silo," said Ross Mayfield, Socialtext's president and co-founder. "By spanning across multiple enterprise systems and sharing events that come out of them, there's a bigger incentive for adoption and achieving a deeper business value."