OutStart Participate

OutStart Participate is an innovative Social Business Software platform that enables people to leverage their organization's collective intelligence and freely exchange social capital.  The result is a dramatic increase in the flow of know-how and expertise enabling workers to be far more efficient and effective and for their organizations’ to be far more agile. 

With OutStart Participate, you can:

• Connect all social software forms. Web 2.0 technologies including wikis, blogs and communities, all provide excellent venues for sharing. But standalone they also create additional silos.  To specifically support businesses, Participate uses and ties together the social Web 2.0 technologies, helping to unlock and share the ideas and know-how of employees, customers, and partners. 
• Readily connect to organization expertise. At best, 20% of an organization’s existing corporate intelligence is ever documented, and new knowledge is in constant demand. Participate enables collaboration amongst peers and automatically identifies experts capable of answering questions.  And, unlike other social platforms, Participate’s workflow insures that answers are provided in a timely fashion.
• Leverage common tools to insure high use. Use of email and PDAs enables users to share and collaborate from their common communication tools.
• Reduce total cost of ownership. Meet budget, resource and business objectives with a choice of on-premise or hosted implementation. Leverage OutStart management services and community-building expertise to successfully launch and grow a vibrant social business environment a few days. 

Key Features

• Full support for social Web 2.0 technologies, automatically captured expert and community discussion threads, plug-ins for common desktop tools such as Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer, a document library to import existing documents and connectors that provide real-time access to enterprise content enable the sharing of your organizations intellectual capital.
• Flexible, user-friendly administration tools facilitate fast configuration of business rules and workflows to manage know-how, experts and communities without programming.
• Multi-lingual support including English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, French, Spanish and Italian offers native-language self-service.
• Real-time access to experts and communities lets users inside and outside the organization post inquiries and be part of a discussion.
• Enterprise-grade security protects your intellectual capital. 

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