Northridge deploys social computing capabilities within enterprise portals to enable accelerated collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Consumer social networks, such as Facebook, have had a massive impact on how personal relationships are created, nurtured, and grown. Whether your contacts live in the same city or in a distant country, Facebook allows you to easily create and nurture those relationships. In a similar manner, large businesses are now recognizing entire social ecosystems within the enterprise that can be leveraged as valuable "knowledge networks."

Knowledge networking enables an enterprise to better and more quickly disseminate, share, and identify company knowledge. Knowledge networking, as a subset of social computing, has a dramatic impact on the productivity and efficiency of the global workforce. Organizations that have typically been burdened with "pockets of knowledge" across diverse departments and divisions can now deploy a cohesive portal through which knowledge is cultivated, surfaced and shared. For example, an employee in one country can easily search and find an employee in another country who could help them more quickly solve a business problem.

Microsoft SharePoint, the world's leading portal platform, provides numerous built-in features that facilitate enterprise social computing and knowledge networking. Some of the key social computing components within SharePoint include:

• My Sites with user profiles
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Activity feeds
• Social and expertise tagging
• People and social searching
• Feedback and Ratings
• Enterprise Search

In addition to the built-in social computing functionality in SharePoint, there are a number of third party add-on products that further enhance the knowledge network within the enterprise. Northridge is an expert at designing and implementing enterprise social networks within SharePoint to drive organizational productivity and efficiency.

To learn more about how Northridge can help your organization, please contact us.