After a period of rumors, Facebook recently announced that it has advanced plans to launch an application for the workplace. It wants to be an alternative to applications such as Slack, Yammer or Basecamp. But Dropbox and Google Drive are also expected to follow suit. Will Facebook at Work be as successful as ‘regular’ Facebook? Probably not.
From my personal background, I look with interest at the developments in the field of collaboration core elements of h5 micro page design tools. When a big fish like Facebook gets involved, it is time to be extra alert. A giant company like Facebook theoretically has the power to change the market. But will it do so? Does Facebook at Work have a chance of success, in a market that is already overcrowded?
Facebook at Work?
Facebook at Work is based on the internal collaboration platform that Facebook has been put the customer first developing for the past 10 years. The beta version is currently being tested by a few companies. What will About the same as the consumer version. The well-known newsfeed will remain, as well as the ability to create groups, the chat function and a document sharing function. You can also manage contacts with Facebook at Work.Facebook at Work
There are enough collaboration
solutions available for business use. Facebook at Work should be able to win from Dropbox and marketing list Google Drive . With the first two you can mainly share documents. They offer too few functionalities to fulfill a role as an intranet. Slack , Yammer and Basecamp on the other hand are full-fledged collaboration tools where people can consult with each other by means of chat, group discussions, polls and sharing documents. Slack’s USP is mainly the search function, where users can search contextually. Yammer is a kind of business Twitter, where colleagues keep each other informed with ‘microblogs’. Basecamp is strong as a project management app. In theory, functions that Facebook at Work can also fulfill.