Other collaboration solutions are simple point-applications with basic collaborative features like Wikis, Blogging, or web-based file sharing. These newer "Enterprise 2.0" or "Social Enterprise Software" tools can often improve collaboration some by streamlining how users publish content and share information and files. Unfortunately, the addition of these point-applications only provide a band-aid for the overarching problem within businesses and organizations, which is the problem of easy-to-use collaboration and the growing number of data and application silos that make sharing information and collaborating so difficult. Relevant information and data is locked away in many applications, emails, file servers and databases. Rather than adding another application, which effectively is just another data silo, in the form of a Social CMS, Wiki, Blog, or other Enterprise 2.0 / Social Enterprise Software deliver the most complete and most effective collaboration solution: MindTouch Deki because MindTouch Deki has all the collaboration easy-to-use goodness of these other systems, but is also able to help you federate and mashup your silos.
MindTouch Deki is the only collaboration platform that delivers fantastic and easy to use (wiki-style) collaboration and is also able to create a connective tissue between enterprise systems, applications, web-services, databases, Web 2.0 applications, etc... Site administrators can register external applications, databases, web-services and use MindTouch Deki as the collaborative surface for mashing up or surfacing application data (or behavior). Only with MindTouch Deki can you collaborate atop of your disparate systems and data sources with such ease that even the novice will find it compelling. For example, a site administrator can register databases, CRM, ERP, and other enterprise systems as well as services from LinkedIn, Google Maps, and other popular social sites. Then users can create powerful mashups, templates, dynamic reports and dashboards that can be shared alongside static content that users contribute in the form of text, comments, files or even rich media. This can all be done securely without enabling unsafe HTML, unsafe scripting or requiring a background in programming.
With MindTouch Deki you can give power to the people and governance to IT.