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1. Why The World Needs OpenSocial@Work
January 5, 2014

2. Why OpenSocial@work
• Interacting with other people is a basic
human need – at work and at play
• At work, people need to collaborate to get
things done
• Barriers between work systems...
HR Systems | Sales Systems | Accounting
Systems | Marketing Systems | Project
Management Systems | Workflow Systems | ...
...inhibit collaboration, reduce
productivity and limit velocity
OpenSocial@work standards allow all enterprise applications to
be social together so people can interact seamlessly at work
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3. Why OpenSocial@work Standards
Standards Unleash Productivity
The shipping container standard increased trade 790% over 20 years
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“Estimating the Effects of the Container Revolution on World Trade“, by Daniel Bernhofen, Zouheir El-Sahli and Richard Kneller, Lund
University, Working Paper 2013:4, February 2013

4. How Did Shipping Containers Unleash Trade?
Cost or Activity
Before Container
Standard
After
Improvement
$5.83
$.16
3,544%
1.7
30
1,665%
Theft of Cargo
Rampant
Minimal
Insurance Cost
High
Low
Loading Cost per
Ton
Ton per Hour
Loaded onto Ships
OSF Believes Standards for Application Integration Can Yield the Same
Magnitude of Benefits for Enterprises, Developers and ISVs
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The Economist, Why have containers boosted trade so much? http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-14

5. OpenSocial@work for Enterprises
• Fewer platforms to support
• Speedier and Less Costly (Social)
Web Application Integration
• Happy end users who can do
simple yet powerful things like link
a Jive group to a Box folder with
bidirectional comments and get
real-time engineering activity from
Jira into IBM Connections activity
streams
That’s OpenSocial@work
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6. OpenSocial@work for App Developers
• Access installed bases of
IBM Connections, Jive
and a growing list of major
platform players (SAP,
Tibco)
• Reduce development and
maintenance costs and
speed time to market
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7. OpenSocial@work for Systems Integrators
• Radically simplified
integration environment
• Increased productivity
• More reusable tech (fewer
one-off projects)
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8. Towards OpenSocial@work Standards
• Joint OSF/W3C workshop in
August 100+ attendees
• New OSF spec work in Social
Web WG; align with HTML5
web components,
ActivityStrea.ms and
PubSubHubBub efforts
• Partnership with Open Mobile
Alliance on mobile/social
standards
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9. Towards OpenSocial@work Standards
A standard social vocabulary allowing any social app
to talk to any other social app with minimal
integration time and cost
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10. Get OpenSocial@work
• Right Now
- Apache shindig
- OS Spec 2.5.1
• Coming Soon...
- Activity Stream 2.0
- Incubation of reference
deployments
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11. Get In Touch
www.opensocial.org
officers@opensocial.org
@opensocial
Name
John Mertic
Andy Smith
Matt Marum
Greg Wallace
Role
President
Executive VP
VP, Projects
VP, Marketing
Day Job
Community Manager and
Solution Architect,
SugarCRM
Software Engineer, IBM
Sr. Software Engineer,
SugarCRM
Engagement Manager,
Philosophy IB
www.LinkedIn.com/in
jmertic
pub/andy-smith/4/8a3/643
mgmarum
gtewallace
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12. Thank You!