Chapter 7. Collaborative and Social API

The portal is the best ECM for team collaboration, supporting industry standards such as Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI), CMIS, WebDAV, and JCR. Event data can be specific to a group within a company. In any organization, some data will be relevant at a team level and some other data will be relevant across the whole business. The portal supports such things very well. The portal's collaboration and social networking features take advantage of the benefits of today's virtualized work environment.

Social office gives us a social collaboration on top of the portal—a full virtual workspace that streamlines communication and builds up group cohesion. All components in social Office are tied together seamlessly, getting everyone on the same page by sharing the same look and feel. More importantly, dynamic activity tracking gives us a bird's eye view of who has been doing what and when within each individual site. Social equity can...