Tibbr Brings "Social" to the Enterprise   

"Social" invites many different mental images. Social Clubs, for example, are full of old men, with greying hair (if any hair at all), drinking cheap pints, playing pool and whinging about how it all used to be so much better.

Social Media, on the other hand, creates mental montages of young, intelligent and usually bespectacled people embracing the connected world and using it to spread knowledge, listen and collaborate.

Social Enterprise is an entirely different kettle of badgers, and one that not many companies are touching with a barge pole. There's a reason to this; there is an enormous risk of moving your business to a Social platform. If, for example, you get your security settings wrong on Facebook, then you might accidentally let all and sundry see that picture of you in Benidorm ill-advisedly wearing that mankini. But for the Enterprise, for business of all sizes, you're at risk of some simple human error exposing business-critical data to world plus dog.

The first time ACME, Inc. inadvertently publishes their Balance Sheet to the web there will be an implosion of customer confidence in any company trusting their systems to The Big Bad Web.

But if you're smart, and you should be if you run a business, you will firstly implement security and process to prevent this doomsday event from being possible, let alone probable. Secondly, if you're smart, you will also realise that there's nothing to stop an employee now emailling a Balance Sheet to everyone by mistake, or muttering a company-confidential figure across a phone line.

One company who understands that progress is only made when you take a risk and realise the benefits outweight the risk (so long as you succeed...) is TibCo, a decade-old organisation borne of the dot-com-bubble popping. Their social enterprise platform called Tibbr rocked up in January to (nerdy) critical acclaim.

Tibbr 3.0

While Tibbr 1.0 back in January offered you a global view of what you're interested in from a multitude of sources (RSS, widgets, email, legacy systems, etc), and Tibbr 2.0 seems to have never happened, Tibbr 3.0 is an impressive collection of new tools built upon its earlier incarnation.

From real-time discussions that live and breathe in front of your eyes across geographical, cultural and network boundaries, to voicemail which forms a native component in a discussion.

This is genuine "universal inbox" technology and is a means for personal and personalisable dashboards to be built organically from an array of sources of data.

See the launch video below: