Beehive Session Notes

Beehive Unified Collaboration

Notes from Oracle OpenWorld presentation - only took notes on the social and collaboration aspects of the session.

• Enterprise collaboration is fragmented
• Need to deploy multiple products, sometimes same / sometimes different vendors
• Enterprise Messaging / Team Collaboration / Synchronous Collaboration / "Next Big Thing"
• New: Collaboration Brokering: connections, interest & expertise, relationships, terms & topic: c
• Beehive Platform: common infrastructure supporting the above domains
• Review of Beehive Services ... common components, interfaces, object model, etc
• Social software doesn't connect ou to who you should know
  • Not really the
• User maintained tags and profiles fall short
• Collaborative Brokering: Expertise Automation - Social Network Discovery - Profiles

 

Oracle Beehive & Expertise Automation In Enterprise Collaboration

Notes from Oracle OpenWorld presentation - only took notes on the social and collaboration aspects of the session.

• All forward-looking info
• Today's collaboration tools: only as effective as your social network
• It's not who you know but who you need to know (latent connections)
• Optimizing participation in key business activities
• Evolution of business productivity
  • Individual productivity
  • Group productivity
  • Enterprise productivity (Note: should perhaps be "network productivity")
• Note: Productivity not that strong of a hook - nebulous when it comes to information/knowledge workers since there has been no credible method of assessing productivity improvements due to technology - keeps coming back to "time saved" which is a very soft argument since you cannot assess how the time was re-applied outside structured task workers.
• Beehive: automate business connections, ensure intelligent participation, optimize enterprise productivity
• Note: process-centric productivity is what Oracle is saying ... exception handling, latency, etc.
• Beehive addresses who should be collaborating as well as when and why.
• Collaboration Brokering: Expertise Automation, Social Network Discovery, Secure Connection Management
• Oracle WebCenter with Oracle Beehive
  • Beehive portlets will be surfaced via WebCenter
  • Note: not clear whether WebCenter will support Beehive objet model
• Who Knows What and Who Knows Who both supported
• Demo of Beehive integrated with SharePoint
• Content search and insertion of brokering request totally within SharePoint user experience
• Note: This is the type of deep integration that Lotus should have done with Lotus Connections - missed opportunity on the part of IBM given level of SharePoint existence in market - Oracle integration includes Webparts ... Webpasts by Oracle for Mysite and other areas within SharePoint

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[John Schwiller @iJohnDNS]

This collaboration brokering reminds me of the early days of IM and work to investigate how users cope when they are 'interrupted'. In my experience the user asking the question wants an answer pretty soon (usually an hour ago).

All I could find quickly on that work was this: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/imc/pdf/gt510-3939-vying-for-your-attention.pdf

I wonder if there is any more recent work (perhaps from Oracle to support BH 2.0) which would give us clues as to how the Tacit / Beehive features may make some Subject Matter Experts feel more stressed and could impact their day job.

Is it enough for the SME to just 'score a few points' for answering a question, as in Jive SBS?

I appreciate that a user can just ignore some or all of the requests but I know that once I'd glimpsed an SOS request that was 'correctly' targetted at me I'd find it hard to ignore (I've been called a Pathological Helper in the past...).

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[D]

You mention a demo of Beehive and SharePoint integration, can you provide more information?