We provide all the IT services such as security, monitoring, and backup and restore. We also provide the infrastructure and storage, and we install all the software updates and upgrades. The cost of providing these people services in-house can be the most significant cost in the total cost of ownership calculation, so our hosted service represents a significant resource savings.
Your hosted service can be set up in a matter of days and returning business results in a matter of weeks. There is no client software to install or manage, and an intuitive web interface allows a non-technical person to create workspaces, provision user accounts and assign privileges.
We use an enterprise-grade, tier 1 global data center and network provider with SAS-70 certification. From their facilities, we offer multi-tenant security on shared infrastructure with a service level agreement that includes a 99.9% uptime guarantee. In addition, Socialtext supports 256 bit SSL for secure data transport. Our systems are continuously monitored, and updates are applied at times chosen to minimize any interruption of service.
Our Customer Success team will guide the strategy, planning and execution of your roll-out to ensure fast adoption and time-to-results. Your Customer Success Manager will check in with you on an ongoing basis to make sure you get the most out of your deployment. Additional premium services, such as customizing the look and feel of your workspaces, are also available, and you have several support options to choose from.
| End-user features | Hosted Service | Appliance |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited workspaces | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited pages | Yes | Yes |
| WYSIWYG, collaborative editing | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications on pages, workspaces, people; via e mail, RSS, web | Yes | Yes |
| RSS feed for every page, blog, tag, search query, watchlist and workspace | Yes | Yes |
| Customizable dashboard for each user; can include external feeds | Yes | Yes |
| Collaborative individual and team blogs | Yes | Yes |
| Social networking | Yes | Yes |
| Built in profile page | Yes | Yes |
| Browse people by tag cloud; find people with tag search | Yes | Yes |
| Link to other pages, workspaces, sections | Yes | Yes |
| Easily find recent changes | Yes | Yes |
| Integrated comments | Yes | Yes |
| Include one or more pages in the contents of another page | Yes | Yes |
| Can embed media including images, video | Yes | Yes |
| File attachments | 10GB | Unlimited |
| Multi word tagging | Yes | Yes |
| Search by tag, title, author or date; searches text in attached documents; supports boolean | Yes | Yes |
| Send & create pages via email; add to & comment on pages via e mail; email any page, with attachments | Yes | Yes |
| Automated table of contents | Yes | Yes |
| Watch list notifications | Yes | Yes |
| Standards based widgets from Socialtext and 3rd parties; filter in content from Socialtext, enterprise systems, web | Yes | Yes |
| HTML, Microsoft® Word and PDF output | Yes | Yes |
| Read & write content offline; synchronize. | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile device access (e.g., Palm®, BlackBerry®, iPhoneTM, and TreoTM and other devices) | Yes | Yes |
A purpose-built appliance optimized for social networking and collaboration, the Socialtext appliance provides performance and security, and can be up and running in days and returning measurable business results in weeks.
This paper will help you drive the adoption of a social software solution in your company. It shares Socialtext's own carefully planned roll-out process for our social software, which incorporates our learnings of over 5 years and 6,500 customers.