SNA + Verity

Michael has a nice illustration of “how employee data (HR data) can be leveraged to connect people to various types of interests, publications, etc. on the intranet.” I thought most of this wasn’t possible unless you programmed something in-house, but a couple demos I’ve seen by Verity shows that they have a product that incorporates that and more. Here’s a ppt from a presentation given at the eleventh International WWW conference in May 2002 entitled, “Social Networks for Enterprise Webs.” Seems pretty cool to me. I wonder how it works in practice. There’s a press release about it from 2001 too and a white paper [pdf].