Sixent Enterprise

by Ramius Corporation

Sixent Enterprise is suitable for a wide range of audiences and applications. It is ideal for creating employee and customer social networks which can be combined if desired.

Sixent for Employees

1. Strengthen working relationships between employees
2. Ensure employees can find experts and information quickly
3. Cut down on the volume of inefficient group emails
4. Increase collaboration between your brightest and newest employees
5. Capture knowledge organically while people work

Sixent for Customers

1. Seize more opportunities through closer relationships with your customers
2. Go beyond traditional & ineffective methods of advertising and promotion
3. Join your prospects online who already use social tools to connect
4. Reduce frustration by making experts and reliable information easy to find
5. Speed up and revitalize innovation in product development

Core Purpose

Sixent Enterprise connects your employees and/or customers inside a vibrant social network. It's a hosted, private network that's ready for branding and integration. It enables its members to:

• Find
• Communicate
• Connect
• Collaborate

Functional Structure

Sixent Enterprise is structured around four functional areas:

Feature Overview

Sixent Enterprise combines the business need to Find, Connect, Communicate and Collaborate with the four functional areas of People, Content, Groups and a Dashboard to deliver a full suite that addresses many common business problems in an innovative way.

Discover New People

• Search for people by name, keyword, tag and profile field
• Discover experts by browsing directories and joining groups
• Browse other people's contacts

Explore Existing Contacts

• Members can browse their contacts by recent visit, profile update, status, name, phone or email
• Contacts are privately categorized
• Relationship details can be shared

Browse Rich Profiles

• Multiple profiles provide greater privacy control (e.g. public & private)
• Each profile captures shared status, open conversations & activity on site
• Profiles can store personal blogs, bookmarks, files and photos

Expand Connections

• Invite employees, customers or partners to join as a direct contacts or group members
• Categorizing invited people ensures they see the most relevant profile or group content

Categorize Contacts

• A contact can be placed into one or more private categories
• Controls which profiles & content items a contact is allowed to see
• Default categories can be preset for members to customize as needed

Personal Communications

• Members can post status updates
• Open conversations can take place between two more people on profiles
• Direct messages can be sent without needing to disclose email addresses

Group Communications

• Activity Streams keep members informed about relevant changes in real-time (email & web-based)
• Internal or external feeds can appear in detail without leaving site
• Email broadcasts can be sent to an entire group or subset of members

Discussions

• Discussion topics are associated to group pages
• Members can view, reply and subscribe to topics or single replies
• Administrators can create "Featured" topics that are always visible

Collaborative Groups

• Start groups for customer or partners to share content and work together
• Allow anyone to start groups from templates you create
• Share comments on content such as blogs, files, photos and bookmarks

Dashboard + Activity Stream

• Every member gets their own customizable Dashboard
• Real-time Activity Stream shows the vibrancy of the network and sustains member adoption
• Organizations can push messages and tasks to a user's Dashboard

Customizing Sixent

• Custom domain name and branding
• Default profile names, profile fields, contact categories and dashboard layout
• Custom people and group directory categories
• Group templates
• Site-level categories (roles) for default permissions, contact relationships and group memberships

Integrating Sixent

• Single sign-on with existing user accounts (SSO)
• New participants can be permitted to register "locally" for an account while others use SSO
• Embed existing content feeds or pages into user dashboards and groups via preset "pods"
• Setup optional two-way integration with Twitter

Site Administration

• Administrator console gives access to all member accounts, groups and site-level categories
• Flag, Suspend and Ban accounts
• Basic activity reports and integration with Google Analytics

Pricing Models

Two models - simply choose which one you prefer

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