Pimp your IBM Connections installation

Depending how you look at it, IBM Connections is something different:

1. A leading Social Business application, ready to use
2. A set of services and APIs to integrate into your applications
3. A platform to build social enabled applications

( Like Steve Jobs: a touch enabled iPod, an enhanced phone and an Internet access device - 3 items in one device). There are a growing number of applications and add-ons available that take advantage of item two and three. Markus Thömmes compiled a nice list in an (for now) internal presentation. I'm listing the mentioned products in short (in no specific order) here:

• Trilog Group - ProjExec®: Project Management (Trilog is the organisation where XPages has its roots as JEE technology called Flowbuilder)
• SugarCRM: Customer Relationship Management. IBM switched from Siebel to SugarCRM recently
• Immersive for Atlassian: Integrate Confluence and Jira into Connections
• Hype: Campaign based ideation
• dynamicSignal: Coupons, promotions and job postings
• OnTime® Social: Powerful team scheduling powered by Mikkel Flindt Heisterberg
• MindJet: MindMaps feed and are fed by Connections data
• VSee: Video conferencing and screen share
• HarQen Hypervoice™: Voice conversation integration
• The Hive: motivation and awards
• Kudos Badges: Gamification and motivation
• KangoGift: Social recognition
• Bunchball Nitro: accellerated onboarding, leaderboards
• Lialis WebDAV: access files through standard file managers
• filedog Q: local sync for files
• Box: Intregration into box.com
• Genus Media Upshot: Rich Media Content Management
• Cobra Image Router: seamless integration of paper content. Cobra is around for a long time and probably are one of the most experienced providers of transfer from paper to electronic workflows
• The Poll: Polls and results
• Questionmine™: video surveys, quizzes, and automated webinars
• JustNudge Widgets: Widget collection to improve user experience and enable extra tasks
• EBF.CUSTOMIZER: Customize Connections UI
• SnappLinks™: Enhancement for the CK Editor for link management
• Ephox EditLive!: Advanced Editor for Connections
• LinguaSys – TGSocial: Translation plugin with support for over 110 languages
• Actiance Vantage: Compliance for SEC, FINRA, IIROC, PRA and FCA
• Connections Administration Toolkit: If you are not a fan of Jython and the command line, that's the UI you want to have

The list is growing, keep updated on Greenhouse