Ask HN: Best enterprise collaboration platform?

[lotusleaf1987]

Hi, I'm looking into: Adobe Acrobat.com IBM Lotus Live Oracle BeeHive Cisco Quad MSFT Sharepoint Does anyone have any experience with these? Is one better than the other? They all seem fairly similar from their websites, but I'm wondering if one UX is best or worst? Thanks

[rbanffy]

I like Google Apps - they provide easy tools for a geographically dispersed team. I also like Plone a lot and have deployed collaboration sites on it. Plone 4 rocks, but I am yet to do anything with it.

Avoid Sharepoint like the plague.

[lotusleaf1987 → rbanffy]

Sharepoint was the least likely for me to go with...but for the sake of comparison I included it. Acrobat.com seems pretty good, but it's hard to figure out all these nuances from the platforms without actually thoroughly testing them. But thanks for sharing your experience, that's mainly what I'm looking for.

[amirmc]

You could also look into Huddle (http://www.huddle.net/). I've used it with a couple of project teams and it worked pretty well.

Also came across http://www.oneis.co.uk/ where bensummers is co-founder. I haven't had a demo yet but plan to soon.

[jokull]

Also consider mixing tools together. Dropbox for file sharing, Google Apps for email and calendar, Harvest for time tracking etc.

[vitovito → jokull]

I would shy away from this. For "enterprise collaboration," there's no way to have "enterprise management" with multiple, disparate tools.

That means no centralized access control, no fine-grained permissions, etc., across all the tools. A single service can be a big productivity, integration and custom-development win.

[lotusleaf1987 → vitovito]

Yeah I think what I am looking for is a one-stop shop. We already use Google Apps and Dropbox, but they definitely are not the best they could be. I like Dropbox for what it is, but I think we need something more web-based.