This week Cubetree launched. Cubetree is the next generation Social Platform for the enterprise. With our team of enterprise social media implementation experts we put it through a quick test. Cubetree is a very powerful platform that has most functionality you would want in an enterprise setting. If you want to get a feel for where this industry is heading, take a look. It really does all the social stuff!
Just to name a few things: sharing documents, sharing links, wiki’s, sharing photo’s, setting goals for yourself and others, etc, etc. Integration with Google Calender, Salesforce, Webex, Twitter, Tripit, Google Docs, Google Reader, etc etc. Yes, very impressive.
However, after an hour we stopped using Cubetree because it just generates too many updates. We tested with 3 people and were just completely overwhelmed by the updates. We imagined what would happen if 15 more colleagues would partake and shivered. For now we are going back to using Yammer for our internal communication, and wiki’s and Google Docs for collaboration. If Cubetree solves this issue, we’ll give it another go and potentially implement it at clients.
Jaap,
Thank you for the write-up and really getting down into use with the breadth of features. As you’ve probably already seen from our feedback area (powered by the great folks at UserVoice) we deliver features based on needs like the one you felt – quickly said I think “too many feed items when new users are signing up”.
One of our customer design partners had a similar issue when rolling out to their AMEA offices (e.g. Light up UK today, France tomorrow, etc… and had to many feed items). That drove the implementation of feed setting (which you might have already seen) which let users hide certain feed items (ie. Twitter, company quiz, travel) . It’s located under Setting. Have a look and please tell me if that hits the spot, or there is something more we are missing.
Best,
Ross Fubini
CTO & Co-Founder, Cubetree
t: @fubini
e: Ross@CubeTree.com
May 13th, 2009 by Ross Fubini
Ross,
Thank you for your comment and pointing us to the functionality. We further tested the platform and find it very useful. We are using Cubetree in one of our projects.
The functionality does allow you to manage some of the messages coming in. We still think that in larger settings the number of updates will be too overwhelming.
Best,
Jaap
May 19th, 2009 by Jaap Linssen