Quick Take from Gartner Social Software Magic Quadrant Unveiling
James Lundy shared the 2009 edition of Gartner’s Social Software Magic Quadrant on the ITxpo floor at Symposium in Orlando. Considering that he had just 20mins to present the topic, he did a great job fitting in high value content. The public version is to be posted tomorrow (yes, I have a pic but he asked everyone not to post it).
Here’s some highlights from the brief presentation:
The social software space is being broken up into three areas (descriptions fairly self-evident):
- Enterprise
- Public
- External / Customer Communities
Those who are visionaries in the MQ tend to be ones who bring a social platform story to the table vs. a point solution
Lot’s of pricing variation in the market. Read: Negotiate pricing and get yourself a deal!
Lots of opportunity for companies who can analyze social graphs and associated meta data (Any BI vendors in the house?)
Prepare for the battle to own the social profile! Will it be HR? Finance? Every dept for themselves?
Abbas Haider Ali
