A competitive analysis of the market for Business Social Networking software.

For Immediate Release

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Lauren Reardon
The Radicati Group, Inc.
(650) 322-8059
lreardon@radicati.com

Palo Alto, CA – February 9th, 2009 – The latest market brief by The Radicati Group, “Business Social Networks – Market Quadrant 2009,” provides a competitive analysis of the market for enterprise Business Social Networking software solutions.

Radicati Market Quadrants^SM rank vendors based on a four quadrant system, which includes “Mature Players,” “Specialists,” “Trail Blazers,” and “Top Players” quadrants. Leading players in each market segment are ranked based on the features and functionality of their solution and their market share in that segment. Radicati Market Quadrants^SM provide a comparative viewpoint of the market, and an analysis of each vendor included in the study, including both strengths and weaknesses.

This Market Quadrant^SM focuses on Business Social Networking solutions which include wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and more. These solutions are seeing rapid adoption by organizations of all sizes with the objective of improving the flow of ideas, foster employee creativity, as well as streamline business processes. Business Social Networking solutions are increasingly being used to build interactive communities internally within organizations, as well as with outside customers and partners. Companies evaluated in this Market Quadrant include: Atlassian, Awareness, Huddle, IBM, Jive Software, Leverage Software, Microsoft, MindTouch, Mzinga, Novell, Oracle, SocialText, Telligent, and TWIKI.NET.

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