Socialtext Delivers Socialtext 4.0

By Socialtext, PRNE
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Enterprise social software platform enables people to mobilize in new ways around business challenges and opportunities.

PALO ALTO, California, March 3, 2010 - Socialtext (www.socialtext.com/) today announced the release of
Socialtext 4.0, the next major version of its enterprise social software
(www.socialtext.com/products/index.php) platform. The new release
enables employees to mobilize in new ways around projects, challenges and
opportunities. Socialtext 4.0 delivers new capabilities that span across all
of the company's social software modules. It includes microblogging channels
and filtered activity streams to help people digest the information
colleagues share with them throughout the day, as well as new tools for group
productivity.

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"The focus of our enterprise social software has always been to
accelerate business performance for our customers, by giving their people new
ways to share knowledge and expertise," says Eugene Lee, Socialtext's CEO.
"Socialtext 4.0 takes that an extra step forward. It allows people to
circulate information, ideas and updates in a targeted way with teammates, so
they can move quickly to take advantage of new opportunities."

Socialtext 4.0 is available on all of Socialtext's flexible deployment
options (www.socialtext.com/products/deploymentoptions.php), including
its unique on-site managed appliance, which delivers the security enterprises
need without requiring IT resources or developers to update and maintain the
software. Microblogging channels and filtering are also available on the
Socialtext Microblogging Appliance (www.socialtext.com/products/deploymentoptions_microblogging.php).

So what's new in Socialtext 4.0?

Collaborative Groups — Collaborative Groups give people the social
software tools they need to quickly circulate knowledge, ideas, and updates
among team members, and get work done faster. People can create a group for
any purpose, such as to work on a task or project, or to share around a
common interest. Anyone can create a Collaborative Group on the fly, complete
with a group home page with an activity stream of group member updates, a
dedicated microblogging channel, and one or more workspaces
(www.socialtext.com/products/wiki.php).

For administrator ease, Collaborative Groups can be synchronized with
existing groups in your company's LDAP or corporate directory. Collaborative
Groups can be configured for privacy to meet the business needs of the group.
A group can be listed, with its membership designated as either
"request-to-join" or open. Groups with these privacy settings are
discoverable, and lead to increased participation from across the
organization. Alternatively, a group can be unlisted, which makes it
completely private.

Microblogging Channels — The popularity of Socialtext Signals, a secure
enterprise microblogging tool (www.socialtext.com/products/microblogging.php),
has spawned the need for people to filter the short messages colleagues share
with them throughout the day. Want to view all the Signals from the
"Operations" Group? Simply pull from an easy drop down menu to see their
Signals. People can post a Signal to one group they belong to, or all of
them. This capability is available on both Socialtext's browser-based
interface or Socialtext Desktop, the Adobe AIR application.

Microblogging Search — As Socialtext Signals has hit critical mass in
large organizations, the messages shared by employees have become a valuable
corporate asset. Socialtext 4.0 provides the ability to browse and search
this new information resource, and also the ability to target your search to
messages from a specific group. The new microblogging search capabilities are
useful for discovering new information that can inform a project or decision,
and also to quickly pinpoint specific information. You can also "flashback"
from any microblogging message to see the context of the discussion at the
time it was published.

Activity Stream Filtering — Activity streams provide an extremely useful
way for people to know what is going on. With Socialtext 4.0, you can view
the activity stream of any group to which you belong, so you can quickly zero
in on what's transpired in the group. Alternatively, you can view the
activity stream of any individual, of all the people you follow, or of the
entire company.

Presence Indication — With user names from popular IM services in
Socialtext profiles (www.socialtext.com/products/socialnetworking.php),
you can now hover over a person's avatar to see their presence, which lets
teammates know who is reachable at a given moment.

About Socialtext

Socialtext addresses the critical issues organizations face as their
people and teams struggle to share knowledge, ideas and expertise. With
Socialtext's enterprise social software platform, people and teams are
synchronized, highly engaged and able to move fast. The Socialtext
collaboration platform employs a broad set of social software technologies
including microblogging, social networking, filtered activity streams,
widget-based dashboards, blogs and wikis. Socialtext offers both the
convenience of SaaS and the security of an on-site appliance, for the fastest
time to value. More than 6,500 businesses world-wide have accelerated their
business performance with Socialtext, including Mayo Clinic, McGraw-Hill,
OSIsoft, Symantec, The Washington Post, Egon Zehnder International, and
Epitaph Records. Learn more about Socialtext at www.socialtext.com.

CONTACT: Chris Lynch of Socialtext, +1-650-323-0800, pr@socialtext.com

Chris Lynch of Socialtext, +1-650-323-0800, pr at socialtext.com

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