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More and more companies all over the world understand the power, scalability and possibilities of delivering Enterprise 2.0 implementations which are integrated with SharePoint Technology. SharePoint is a great product for delivering at the front robust Portal environments for team site creation and collaboration of people inside and outside any company. At the backend they deliver a platform which can be easily scaled. Lot of other tools are available for even expanding this platform in ways like business intelligence, Document Center technology, Enterprise Search and more.

Altering the environment due to the use of definitions and templates, it is suitable for creating intranet, extranet and even internet solutions. We see a lot of companies starting to use this enhancement by choosing for a transparent environment in their organisation.One entrance, one Portal thought.

Companies become aware of the possibilities of this product. It can help organisations to bring it to a higher level by creating Portal environments which classifies their information to make it easier to find information. The use of social network components is an absolute need in this process. By creating social networks, people, projects and divisions in organisations are more easiliy connected and referenced. This can enhance and solve their work related issues like:

• Finding easier the information you need
• Knowing what your (known or not known) collegeas are doing inside the organisation
• More time for things which are important in stead of spending a lot of effort on things which can be automated
• Easier being connected to collegeas for sharing information
• and more....

There are a lot of companies who announced their new platform for creating new enterprise 2.0 and web 2.0 solutions. These are:

• Awareness Inc,
  They deliver a new platform that allows for creation of Web 2.0 communities. They integrated with SharePoint for a searchable back-end and also some Web Parts
• NewsGator Technologies
  A new SharePoint Add-on called Social Sites 2.0 which brings social capabilities to MOSS using community pages. It can be used to create ad-hoc social networks around projects in an organisation.
• Atlassian
  Creation of a product called "Confluence" which is an enterprise wiki creation tool completly integrated with SharePoint to let the wiki pages become a part of the SharePoint Portal.
• WorkLight Inc.
  Windows Vista Gadgets, Facebook applications, RSS, mobile devices and more to view and update information from SharePoint.
• blueKiwi Software
  They have integrated their product with Office System and SharePoint through a connector and blueWiki OfficeAssistant to provide social networking tools and capabilities including blogging, user profiles, conversation trakers and more.
• Connectbeam
  A bookmarking and taggin add-on module for SharePoint.
• Telligent Systems
  Their social-computing platform offers enterprise blogging tools, social networking, social streams, forums, media galleries, and business analytics through detailed reporting
• Leverage Software
  Creation of interaction with external-facing internet communities of their partners and customers.
• Tomoye Corp.
  Tool for publishing documents from SharePoint to Ecco and support even SSO between both applications.

All these companies contribute to a large set of new innovative solutions on the SharePoint platform for social networks. You can read more in the following article on ReadWriteWeb.