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Question: Social customer community platform for B2B company?
Answer: Not sure if you have studied Salesforce's community, sharing it with you first. http://www.salesforce.com/communities/overview/
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"You can build websites on it very quickly.""The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS.""We use a part of the solution called Acquia. The personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect fo the solution.""It is good for big projects."

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"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."

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"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful.""Digital experience features like target, segmentation, and campaign management have a long way to go.""It is a little bit simplified.""I think the support needs to improve, as well as the integration with tracking and analytics systems."

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"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."

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    Anonymous User
    At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a round-up of a couple of the more well known platforms and compare their products to Drupal. In this roundup we will be comparing Jive, Sharepoint and Drupal Commons. Drupal Commons is a popular distribution created by Acquia to compete with some of these other proprietary platforms. There are many other options out there, commercial and otherwise, to compare with Drupal but I want to focus on Jive and Sharepoint for a couple of reasons. I chose Jive because it is one of the leading competitors in this space in respect to market share. Next, I chose Sharepoint because I have some history with Sharepoint. This experience dates back to when I built www.adhe.edu with Sharepoint 2007 a few years ago. I subsequently wrote this blog entry about my experience shortly after joining Mediacurrent. This roundup will also act as a refresher for those who read my original “Drupal vs. Sharepoint” blog. Yammer, which was recently bought by Microsoft and is the tool we currently use for office communication will also get some mentions throughout this article. As I went through and tested each of these tools I used three main criteria in my evaluation Cost Ability to Customize Overall features… Read more →
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    it_user70215 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user70215 (Marketing at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees)
    Real User

    http://influitive.com/ is one that i've seen recently that has some pretty good features and integrations with salesforce, also targeted at B2B businesses.

    it_user153456 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user153456 (Community Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees)
    Vendor

    Thanks for all for the answers. We are looking quite a wide range of features needed from platform. This is why we have been looking suppliers mentioned earlier. These suppliers can (some better than others) offer what we need.

    Basically my question was about how these companies are to work with. Have these fulfilled your expectations? Have they been there for you? Have you got any problems with implementation? This kind of info is very hard to get. And when you talk to these suppliers you are talking to sales guys. So you all know what that means.

    Special thanks to Sanjeev for the review!

    BR
    Teemu

    Sanjeev_Gupta - PeerSpot reviewerSanjeev_Gupta (Digital Web Advisors Pvt Ltd)
    Consultant

    Hi Teemu
    As you too mentioned, it's hard to answer the question with so little info. The key would be to first detail out the kind of interactions you expect with your B2B users and thus list out the features you'd expect in your Social Software. Take these speck as the benchmark to evaluate the shortlisted software.
    That said, If you're looking for basic interactions through let say discussion threads, polls etc you could do well with Drupal But if you are looking for advance collaboration features you might want to evaluate Jive ( its a bit old but it might help to read my review on Jive http://www.sanjeevg.com/2010/06/jive-sbs-40-review.html ).

    Rgds
    Sanjeev Gupta

    it_user79686 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user79686 (VP in Global Business Development at a wireless company)
    Vendor

    You can hire a social media consultant who will run a hand on campaign regarding your targeted b2b group.
    Even better to hire a fb - twitter & social media expert or advertizer about it.

    it_user130032 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user130032 (CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees)
    Consultant

    Hi,
    We have used SocialEngine ( http://www.socialengine.com/) in one of our projects.
    Its built in Zend/PHP/Smarty, so if you're looking for too much customization, you must have a good programmer in-house.
    I don't know much about the other options, just commenting on the one I know.
    Thanks
    Pratik

    it_user3459 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user3459 (Sales with 501-1,000 employees)
    Vendor

    Hi again Teemu, my thoughts before considering the technology! Are you looking for pre-built roadmap that locks community platform to one vendor or solution that uses open standards and thinks about problems of tomorrow and not yesterday.

    it_user149673 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user149673 (Sales at a tech company with 10,001+ employees)
    Real User

    It really depends on the requirement you have. Most of the options you have offer a customer portal only, without really integrating into "services" aspects...

    Another critical issue I think when you are considering smaller scale companies, it will be the vision they have. Are they waiting to be acquired by a Giant? Any acquisition is a nightmare to customers, because it delay any kinds of innovation and improvement.

    Back to the applications you have mentioned, Jive should be the one with more possibilities, but if you are willing to go further forward, Salesforce should be a platform offering you the most options.

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    Also Known As
    Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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    Overview
    Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications

    The workplace has changed. It has become more mobile, and has become a place where communication and collaboration across all spheres of the business is key to success. This is where Jive comes in with its cutting-edge mobile portal, its enterprise social network, and its integrative platform that is compatible with current infrastructure and modern cloud applications.

    As a portal, Jive brings colleagues, content, and current news straight to your desktop or mobile device at the touch of your fingertips. The enterprise social software aspect of Jive connects business colleagues as never-before across geographical locations and throughout the organizational structure. The Jive platform is completely flexible and integrative, and will seamlessly integrate with current systems such as SharePoint and CRM tools, as well as cloud apps like Google Drive and Okta

    Sample Customers
    BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously
    Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Marketing Services Firm20%
    Media Company20%
    Non Profit20%
    Retailer10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government16%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Government9%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise33%
    Large Enterprise28%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise64%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise63%

    Drupal is ranked 5th in Web Content Management while Jive is ranked 27th in Web Content Management. Drupal is rated 8.6, while Jive is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Drupal writes "Through my different companies, we have developed many Drupal sites, from simple ones to complex E-commerce sites and custom made applications. The UI could be improved, though". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jive writes "Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments". Drupal is most compared with SharePoint, WordPress, Adobe Experience Manager, Atlassian Confluence and Magnolia CMS, whereas Jive is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Yammer and Microsoft Teams.

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