Enterprise social networking applications facilitate, capture and organize open conversations and information sharing between individual workers and groups within an organization. In addition to capabilities that support conversations and information sharing, they can keep track of the network of relationships between participants (via social graphs), in order to deliver a personalized stream of updates about events or conversations to individuals (via news feeds and activity streams). These applications help people find out about each other, have discussions, share information and generally interact. Interaction occurs either at a one-to-one level, or in groups, teams, communities and networks, and in the context of structured or unstructured business activities.

Enterprise Social Networking Applications

The workstream collaboration (WSC) market consists of products that deliver a conversational workspace based on a persistent group chat. Products in this market are primarily used to organize, coordinate, and execute outcome-driven teamwork such as that associated with the project- or process-related activities. Secondary uses can include ad hoc collaboration and community discussions.

Workstream Collaboration

Workstream Collaboration Software

Meeting solutions are real-time collaboration applications and associated endpoints that support interactions over a network between participants for team work, presentations, training and webinars. Some vendors segment their product lines to target and scale to one or several of those use cases, while others offer broad solutions that work for many purposes. Enterprise offerings in this market perform equally well for workers in meeting spaces, at their desks or when mobile, with integrated voice, video, messaging and content sharing. 
Organizations with complex needs typically have meeting solutions for internal use — for collaboration, learning and internal communication — that are separate from those for external use in sales or marketing. Such complex needs can result in running meeting solutions from more than one vendor. Complete meeting solutions enable richness of information and interaction by combining messaging, content and screen sharing, video and audio.

Meeting Solutions

Gartner defines the Employee Communications Applications market as technology enables “communicators” (employees in roles where they are responsible for managing internal communications) to plan, create, coordinate, customize, distribute and execute communication campaigns. ECA technology also analyzes internal communications (IC) effectiveness across channels, media, communication types, business impact and employee experience.

Employee Communications Applications

The market for social software in the workplace includes software products that support people working together in teams, communities or networks. These products can be tailored to support a variety of collaborative activities. Buyers are looking for virtual environments that can engage participants to create, organize and share information, and encourage them to find, connect and interact with each other. Business use of these products ranges from project coordination within small teams or homogeneous groups, to information exchange between employees across an entire organization.

Social Software in the Workplace

Team Collaboration Tools

Top Workplace Competitors and Alternatives - Gartner 2022

Office 365 (including SharePoint Online)

Microsoft

Slack

Skype for Business

Adobe Acrobat (Document Cloud)

Adobe

Office 365

Google Workspace

Google

Office 2013 Pro Plus

Exchange

Atlassian Confluence

Atlassian

JIRA Software

<50M USD

Services

Workplace

Data Engineer

Workplace was a refreshing change that improved collaboration and gave an incredible reach firmwide. 
The groups and broadcast feature allows users to connect with a lot of peers from different projects

Acquia

MangoApps

Crew

Active

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