Social Network Paradigms As Prototype For Enterprise Collaboration Platform

Enterprise Collaboration Platform (ECP) represents a paradigm shift from the system-centric to the collaboration-centric approach. It is the major step in aligning real employee interactions in the enterprise with the systems, which facilitate them. ECP allows a clear separation of the system administrators and their function from the key communication processes within the enterprise. ECP achieves this by borrowing its concepts from Social Network collaboration approach. It is envisioned as a tool which would (1) retain all enterprise communications from e-mail to IM; (2) eliminate the needs in using external communications; (3) allow users to administer portions of the content (similar to group moderation in Social Networks).The study was based on the present commercially available in 2009-2010 products and did not include any open source or scarcely used software systems