SocialCast - Software to implement an internal social network and very useful to improve team collaboration
SocialCast is used by the IT department of my company.
We use SocialCast to create an internal social network for employees to help them …
Starting at $250 per month
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What is Socialcast (discontinued)?
Socialcast was an enterprise social networking and collaboration platform acquired by VMware in 2011. The platform allowed an organization's employees to share information and documents with co-workers in real time through a Facebook- or Twitter-like news feed. VMware announced its…
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- $250 per month
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What is Socialcast (discontinued)?
Socialcast was an enterprise social networking and collaboration platform acquired by VMware in 2011. The platform allowed an organization's employees to share information and documents with co-workers in real time through a Facebook- or Twitter-like news feed. VMware announced its end of availability (EOA) effective May 2018.
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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Socialcast was an enterprise social networking and collaboration platform acquired by VMware in 2011. The platform allowed an organization's employees to share information and documents with co-workers in real time through a Facebook- or Twitter-like news feed. VMware announced its end of availability (EOA) effective May 2018.
Socialcast (discontinued) starts at $250.
Jive and Microsoft Yammer are common alternatives for Socialcast (discontinued).
Reviewers rate Chat and Surveys highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Socialcast (discontinued) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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February 06, 2015
Work Smarter with Socialcast
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Socialcast is deployed to all FactSet departments and employees worldwide. We implemented Socialcast in 2009, as we had experienced rapid growth which was putting pressure on our ability to share information. We needed a way to quickly onboard new employees while preserving our corporate culture. Now, Socialcast goes beyond onboarding and has become the go-to hub for employees to ask questions, share information, and solve problems.
- Share the collective knowledge of our company in a centralized location
- Publicly praise and thank employees
- Make strategic information and corporate values accessible to all employees worldwide
- Tagging and groups are useful, but that only extends to text posts. We post a lot of images in our community and it would be great to tag those for people and topics as well.
- When we purchased Socialcast in 2009, they were the only provider with analytics on platform usage. However, in the years since, I haven't seen a lot of development in their analytic tools. This is a shame, as analytics are critical to demonstrating usage and proving the ROI of an enterprise social network.
- Sales teams have created groups for key accounts to update a broad range of people within the company about the status of sales opportunities or issue resolution. This allows for a more informed and streamlined sales process.
- We are able to share strategic goals more broadly, across all departments / employee levels / location to increase employee engagement.
- We are able to celebrate corporate milestones and have created "affinity groups" to let employees engage at the more "human level" which increases employee loyalty and buy-in to our culture.
- Yammer,Salesforce Chatter
We purchased Socialcast in 2009, so our information on competitors is no longer relevant.
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Score 10 out of 10
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- Socialcast has an exceptional user experience. With very few idiosyncrasies, it works well on every platform I've tried.
- The platform has such a high level of ease of use, it becomes somewhat addicting.
- Social analytics are superb.
- The platform is highly intuitive and requires zero training or coaching in order for network members to become productive with it.
- It's extremely reliable. Only once in 4 years, was the product not available, and that was only for about a half-hour. In that half-hour, we realized how dependent we were on it. (Very.)
- The multi-device and deployment options are excellent. On-premise, Private Cloud, and Multi-tenant SaaS all available.
- The mobile apps for iPhone, tablets, and Android render well with a beautiful UI/UX. The desktop AIR app is equally highly usable.
- There is limited functionality with some of the mobile device apps. I'm only familiar with iPhone, but I've heard this from other users. Photos sometimes do not render; you can sometimes not see links that were posted from the web view.
- Socialcast does not offer presence which we'd find useful.
- Ha. We could not run our business without Socialcast. It is our primary channel of communication.
- The platform serves as the backbone of our company which is structured as a network. It creates a seamless channel for communications and knowledge-sharing.
- It serves as a unifying medium to connect network members in multiple time zones with self-service usability.
Yammer.
Yammer, Socialcast.
- Implemented in-house
- Don't know
As a SaaS product, this has very simple deployment.
- Self-taught
Yes .
No
We have not needed it.
- The user interface is exceptional. Writing updates, editing updates is simple and very comfortable for all users.
- Admin features are intuitive.
- Inviting people to the network is simple, and on-boarding doesn't require any extra training or support.
- The recognition feature is done well (thanks).
- Notifications are excellent on mobile and desktop devices.
- I'd prefer to have fuller user profiles.
- Tagging isn't exactly intuitive.
- The projects feature could probably be improved.
Yes
It's a little tricky when you have long threads. Not intuitively obvious how to expand the threads.