Connectbeam Spotlight Connect for Jive Clearspace
Integrate Jive Clearspace into Your Enterprise Social Network
Founded in 2001, Jive Software pioneered community forum software. Jive Forums power many of the largest online communities around the world. From these roots, Jive Clearspace has added documents and blogs, along with forums, for company employees.
A problem for many organizations is that great information is contained in different enterprise applications, but those applications are too often silos inside companies. By connecting the various applications, companies gain a layer of valuable metadata:
- Who created or saved the information
- What tags were applied
- Which Groups contain the information
From this information, valuable social networks emerge. Spotlight Connect for Clearspace integrates valuable user content into the larger enterprise social network.
How Spotlight Connect for Clearspace Works
Spotlight Connect for Jive Clearspace automatically creates references to content created in Clearspace 2.5, storing them in the Connectbeam workstream repository.
Spotlight Connect for Clearspace is built using Clearspace's plugin framework. When it is installed for the first time, references to existing content are mapped into Spotlight. From then on, the references are added dynamically as new content is created.
For example, if a user creates a new blog entry on Clearspace and tags it, the tags show up in Connectbeam Spotlight along with a link to the blog post. In addition, the user's Connectbeam Social Profile is updated to reflect the new activity on the blog. The mapping can be configured to trigger off Clearspace tags or page titles.
With Connectbeam Connect for Clearspace, you can extend the reach of your blog, document or forum content to users outside Clearspace. These users can now discover valuable information that is too often trapped inside of enterprise applications.
The information that is referenced from Clearspace is aggregated and consolidated with the rest of the information inside Connectbeam Spotlight. The information includes the bookmarking and tagging activities of other users, and information extracted from other Enterprise 2.0 applications, aggregated into a single social workstream repository.
