Another premium service, Socialcast Reach, allows an organization to embed the features of Socialcast into other applications.

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Socialcast provide a service with a strong focus on building activity streams into the fabric of the organization.

FORBES: Corporate Microblogging Helps Employees Migrate Work Conversations Online

Socialcast also has thousands of customers and has been noted and reviewed in trade publications CIO magazine, TechCrunch, eWeek, and others.

FORBES: Corporate Microblogging Helps Employees Migrate Work Conversations Online

Companies like Yammer and Socialcast have taken this category of social computing tools to new levels with Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing, making it simple for any company of any size to deploy a similar model almost instantly for their own employees.

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Companies as diverse as activity streaming platform SocialCast (recently bought by VMWare), IBM, start-ups like Huddle, Box, behemoth SAP, Microsoft, Moxie, Jive, CISCO, Nortel, old platforms like SocialText, old web platforms like Broadvision, Alfresco from open source, are competing for attention in this space.

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Socialcast also provides a premium level service that allows the IT department to manage security and privacy compliance requirements, both on the message and data access level, but also to meet regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley, or the current data-privacy regulations in the European Union.

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