Socialtext announced this week a partnership with cloud content management vendor NetDocuments that brings together social content with content management in an all-cloud solution.

One of the key features of an enterprise social system is the ability to collaborate and share documents and other information in a social way, but in order to take advantage of that content at some future date, it requires a content management layer. And when you have both solutions in the cloud, it means that users can access that information from any connected device at any time.

Sarah Nichols, director of knowledge management at ClimateWorks, a customer of both companies' services says the combination is very powerful for her distributed workforce, allowing them to share content and ideas across the world. She called the combined services "a unique solution that allows our hundreds of end users around the world to create, organize and share content, and to collaborate on projects."

It gives users the ability to share documents in a social way by accessing them through Socialtext, while maintaining the management functionality of the NetDocuments system. 

The Socialtext-NetDocuments partnership is part of an overall strategy by Socialtext to provide a way to integrate Socialtext into tools a company might be using already--and this is a very reasonable approach that combines a couple of related technologies in a useful way.

For more information:
- see the Socialtext press release

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