SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The W3C and OpenSocial Foundation will be conducting a Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business on August 7-8, 2013 in San Francisco, CA.
The event, sponsored by IBM and hosted by AppFusions, is designed to bring together social business and platform technology development experts to discuss new strategies for standardizing technologies in support of the burgeoning adoption of social business tools. The workshop will be at Casa de la Vista on Treasure Island.
The lack of adequate standards makes it difficult to create platform bridging or application integration software that comprehensively serves mainstream social business needs of both users and organizations. The workshop will address the growing demand for interoperable social standards to solve mixed-technology challenges caused by today's fragmented specification and technology landscape.
Workshop discussion topics include:
- Key use cases and requirements driving social business
- Technologies that can be standardized to solve the problems facing social business
- Overall architecture of social business interoperability needs
- The difference between standards inside the enterprise and across enterprises
- Organic approaches that are evolving without standardization, such as user engagement and custom integration designs
- Next steps for evolved social specifications, ranging from OpenSocial to the Federated Social Web
The Workshop event is free to attend, and open to social business leaders and strategists, federated and decentralized social Web technologists, security experts and developers. To register either as an attendee or as a presenter, visit the Workshop information site for instructions.
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"For a long time, the W3C has thought that social standards need to be a first-class citizen on the Web. By partnering with the OpenSocial Foundation, we will lay the groundwork for this next step in the evolution of the Web, at our joint workshop in August," said Harry Halpin, a W3C team member. "We expect that social standards will eventually have as huge an impact as HTML5 has had, both across the enterprise and for users."
"There is a tremendous need for a standardized component model for delivery of cloud applications into the enterprise, and across many platforms. OpenSocial is the only community-led initiative working in this space to define a standard," said Mark Weitzel, President of the OpenSocial Foundation. "In working with the W3C, we believe that we can accomplish more and reach a broader audience of developers to proliferate and optimize solutions across enterprises. We are excited to progress our objectives with these upcoming discussions in San Francisco."
Boeing, Cisco, Dachis Group, Ford, Google, IBM, Jive Software, MIT, Mozilla, Oracle, SAP, SugarCRM, Salesforce, Telecom Italia, Tibco, UCF, W3C and many other industry leaders and social business platform corporations are anticipated at the workshop. Learn more here.
About AppFusions
AppFusions is a leader in packaged platform-to-platform integration solutions bridging information silos, and streamlining enterprise process and data redundancies. As early development adopters, AppFusions is already deploying OpenSocial-compliant integrations with Jive Software or IBM Connections on one side, and Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Stash, FishEye, Crucible, and/or Bamboo on the other side.
Overall, the company's achievements include packaged solutions with Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Crowd, IBM Connections, IBM Sametime, Jive, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Alfresco, Google Analytics, LingoTek, UserVoice, Parature, iRise, and more. AppFusions' customers include Fortune 10s to SMBs. Learn more at http://appfusions.com.
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