Tibbr

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Developed by TIBCO Software, Tibbr is a social networking platform that enables employees, customers, and partners to interact with each other – and with information located in any system. [1] The profile layout is similar to Facebook, with space to list professional skills, past projects and people you've worked with. You can follow topics, people, apps and project updates, then see who else follows similar subjects.

Enterprise apps like Salesforce, SAP and Oracle are integrated on the Tibbr social network, as well as personal apps like Box, Evernote and LinkedIn (accessible through the App Marketplace). [2]

Tibbr can be deployed from a company's corporate data center, or through a cloud environment hosted by TIBCO. [1]

Features[1]

  • Contextual. With its unique approach, tibbr allows information to be organized by subject or topic. Leveraging its highly customizable structure and classification system, you can tailor an information model and hierarchy that works best for the business and workforce.
  • Relevant. As not all topics matter equally to each person, tibbr allows users to create, contribute, and subscribe to the event streams that matter most to their roles and interests. Users also have complete control of the frequency in which they receive notifications – right down to the individual subject.
  • Integrated. Information from any existing application can be mapped to specific subjects. Instead of constantly checking different systems or calling someone for updates, tibbr can instantly notify you and your team of the change you are looking for.
  • Accessible. Whether at home, on the move, or at work, users can publish and receive tibbr updates anytime, anywhere. Sharing information has never been so easy.
  • Secure. Whether for use on-premise or hosted in a cloud environment by TIBCO, tibbr is designed to meet all your data security needs. Integration is quick and simple – often only requiring a few hours – and ensures all data storage and user access points meet enterprise-level security, compliance, and audit requirements.

Tibbr recently integrated third-party meeting and video chat service, so you can use Skype, WebEx or Google Hangouts directly through the Tibbr interface.

Licenses

Tibbr licenses start at $12 per user per month, for either the on-premise or cloud-based version of the product, with per seat pricing declining with volume. The company offers a free 60 day trial, but does not offer an ongoing freemium option, because, as Ram Menon, TIBCO President of Social Computing, has said in the past, “Yammer does that for us.” As overconfident as this may sound, the fact that as of April 2013, 75 percent of all Tibbr users had switched from Yammer seems to back up the claim. [3]

Tibbr's impact

Tibbr has grown from 1.5 million paid users to 6.5 million paid users between 2012 and 2013, and now has users in 7,000 global cities. By comparison, Yammer had just 800,000 paid users when it sold to Microsoft in 2012. [3]

Companies that are using Tibbr, include[2]:

Devices

All Tibbr's features are available across desktop, Web, and mobile, with support for the iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone platforms from 2,100 distinct mobile device models.[2]


To read more about other Enterprise Social Networks, please go to All-in-one enterprise social platform

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tibco. TIBBR: Social Collaboration [Internet]. Tibco. Available from: http://www.tibco.com/products/social/social-collaboration]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fee, J. 10 Enterprise Networks to Improve Company Communication [Internet]. Mashable.com; 2013 [cited 2014 Sep 23]. Available from: http://mashable.com/2013/06/14/enterprise-social-networks/ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "mashable" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "mashable" defined multiple times with different content
  3. 3.0 3.1 Carney, M. For Tibbr, social is the center of the enterprise universe, and it’s got three new apps to prove it [Internet]. PandoDaily; 2013. Available from: http://pando.com/2013/10/16/for-tibbr-social-is-the-center-of-the-enterprise-universe-and-its-got-three-new-apps-to-prove-it/