What We Offer
Across your business, are you having the critical conversations you need?
Firestring is a technology company leading the field of semantic-social technology.
We leverage social architecture, connecting to your existing document repositories, to radically enhance knowledge management. What this means is that with Firestring you'll find the right information for you when you need it. And, in time, that information will also find you - using the unique push technology enabled by Firestring's semantic engine, Serendipity.And information when it matters is knowledge.
Firestring leads the field in creating customised social networks for businesses and special interest groups - providing organisations with feature-rich, easy-to-use private social networks for both internal employees as well as external stakeholders including customers and suppliers.
Together with its clients, Firestring harnesses the power of Web 2.0 for business - providing secure, online social networks for closed networking purposes, as well as the change and employee adoption practises that drive these new business tools.
Customers include strategy and change management consultants; branding, marketing and advertising agencies; government and donor agencies; non-profit organizations and companies; broad public communities whose social activism or shared interest allows them to benefit from the network effect.
Firestring's enterprise 2.0 collaboration software greatly enhances knowledge sharing through our unique Web 2.0 social-semantic tools, document sharing and Semantic Knowledge Management Engine, Serendipity.
Our solutions run as a standalone application in the cloud or on-premise behind your firewall, and can also enhance your existing Microsoft SharePoint and other ECM platforms.
With Firestring's Enterprise Social Network your teams will:
- Rapidly find expertise within your business
- Easily locate project resources
- Put the right people on projects when they're needed
- Make project documents discoverable and reusable
- Protect and centralise your IP
- Create a true learning organization
- Silo-bust across departments and territories
- Sustain business conversations before and after workshops
- Innovate and work more efficiently
Our Landscape
AngloGold AshantiIn what Mining Weekly calls "probably the world's most comprehensive technology intervention, a worldwide consortium of some of the globe's best-known technological names are collaborating to introduce automated, blast-free, continuous gold mining at depths 5 km underground." Read More |
Microsoft"Firestring have an excellent grasp of the complexities involved with managing semantic data in the Enterprise. Their Enterprise Social Network leverages the existing strengths of SharePoint and adds further value through the collaboration, semantic matching and knowledge management features of their product... Read More |
UCS Solutions"Working with Firestring over the past few months to rethink models of learning in the age of new media has been a valuable, invigorating experience. They have a singular ability to focus on what is core, what carries value and design for impact. Read More |
The Firestring for SharePoint Product Suite brings the best of the functionality inherent in the Firestring Network and marries this to the full functionality of the SharePoint platform through seamless and tight-knit integration built in native SharePoint. In doing so very specific objectives are met:
- Make SharePoint a product that your users can far more quickly adopt
- Work within the native SharePoint environment and code set
- Provide social insights and contextual mapping to content
- Provide a rich framework of metadata to enhance and compliment the SharePoint framework
- Provide an enhanced search experience allowing for better and easier knowledge discovery