Enterprise collaboration and social collaboration software have became mainstream of the enterprise solutions. This can also be seen from the solution market: It's packed with hundreds of different tools. From the surface they all look the same. Almost every collaboration suite provides tools for social sharing, file management, discussions, task tracking and other basic collaboration needs. But what are the major differences?

1.
Users
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www.podio.com
Social
sharing,
file
Social
network
+
focused
management,
group
work
group
work
&
innova2on
and
idea
management
spaces
Manage
collabora2on
in
cross-­‐organiza2onal
projects
or
programs.
Large
corpora*on,
social
network
of
employees
Social
sharing
and
social
networking
Flexible
social
network
with
user
groups
Connect
employee
network
to
share
knowledge
more
openly
All
employees
inside
enterprise
Intranet
communica*on,
file
management,
group
work
Defined
by
organiza*onal
structure
Communicate
and
manage
content
across
enterprise
Large
corpora*on
social
network
and
employees
Integrated
enterprise
social
network
Large
social
network
and
organiza*onal
structure
Connect
employees
and
manage
content
in
company-­‐wide
network.
Sales,
marke*ng
and
customer
service
network
Knowledge
sharing
and
communica*on
related
to
Salesforce
content
Social
network
connected
to
sales,
marke*ng
and
customer
service
Connect
employees
to
support
sales,
marke*ng
and
service
Groups
of
employees
inside/outside
enterprise
Collabora*on
suite
boosted
with
small
business
applica*ons
Organiza*on
divided
into
workspaces
Manage
work
and
typical
processes
of
small
and
medium
size
enterprise
File
management
and
team
collabora*on
Defined
by
organiza*onal
structure
Team
or
project
-­‐driven
collabora*on
in
shared
workspaces
Ad-­‐hoc
cross-­‐
organiza*onal
teams
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Network
of
people
from
sca0ered
loca2ons
and
organiza2ons
Enterprise
collabora*on
in
team/project
workspaces
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Solu*ons
Structure
File
sharing
and
shared
storages
Ad-­‐hoc
teams
and
organiza*onal
structure
Deliver
and
manage
files
in
shared
storage
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Use
Case

2. Collabora*on
SoAware
Comparison
Enterprise
collabora*on
and
social
collabora*on
soAware
have
became
mainstream
of
the
enterprise
solu*ons.
This
can
also
be
seen
from
the
solu*on
market:
It's
packed
with
hundreds
of
different
tools.
From
the
surface
they
all
look
the
same.
Almost
every
collabora*on
suite
provides
tools
for
social
sharing,
file
management,
discussions,
task
tracking
and
other
basic
collabora*on
needs.
But
what
are
the
major
differences?
The
key
to
this
answer
can
be
found
from
the
original
purpose
of
the
soAware.
Purpose
defines
in
which
context
the
solu*on
can
most
probable
ac*vate
the
people
and
keep
collabora*on
meaningful.
In
this
comparison
target
users,
tools,
structure
and
use
cases
are
based
on
our
customers’
comments.
Some
of
these
tools
can
be
implemented
to
different
purposes
as
well,
but
this
comparison
should
help
you
to
understand
what
challenges
the
solu*on
have
been
designed
to
solve.
For
more
informa*on
please
contact
us
www.lumoflow.com
Copyright
-­‐
2013
Lumo
Research
Ltd,
Helsinki