The Magic Quadrant: Team collaboration and social software

08Jan09

Building on my post yesterday, defining a collaborative culture, a colleague notified me of the Gartner Quadrant from 2007 that already has made the connection between collaboration and social software. since someone already put it out, here it is again:

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software 2007

However this quadrant is now getting old, and it has also recieved some critics, for the fact that it does not take new players into the picture. I also guess Gartner has made a new one since then. 

However, the quadrant only resembles one actor at a time, but my personal favourite is the combination of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and Atlassian Confluence with the Sharepoint connector. If you, in addition, include Office Communictaion Server to allow chat and unified communication, then you should be well on the way towards collaboration nirvana. Anyone there yet?

I must say I also look forward to explore some of the other tools that shows up everywhere for different niche features and processes.

By the way, anyone thought of when consolidation is going to happen in the IT industry? This is why I love the strategy Atlassian pursues with the Sharepoint Connector (the market leader above) and JAVA(the definite challenger to MS.net in programming languages), amazing combination that is going to blast competitors. When they in addition get a thriving community and crowdsource all their plugin developments, how can anything possibly beat them?

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Tags: Atlassian, Confluence, Gartner, Magic quadrant, Moss 2007