Tibco and Huddle cuddle up

Working collaboratively is, of course, all about sharing. But in the real world that can mean sharing information that comes in different forms, and requires different tools to manage and secure such information so it is used appropriately.

So the first job in broadening out a collaboration environment is to ensure that the different tools required themselves can collaborate effectively.

This is what Tibco and Huddle have just announced at Tibco’s annual Tucon conference in Las Vegas. The pair have brought together a collaborative social media tool, in the form of Tibco’s tibbr, and a content and file-sharing tool in the form of Huddle’s eponymous cloud content system.  

The pair see this as a strategic partnership which plays to the changing ways users access, share and collaborate on content. It is intended to offer a tightly integrated experience that provides a richer, more comprehensive level of exchange for critical work information and ideas, allowing users to become more productive and able to create a stage for real work to get done faster.

With this partnership, Huddle customers will be able to seamlessly socialise, share and manage their content in the cloud. From inside the tibbr environment, users can now directly attach files stored in Huddle to their updates, for information and feedback. Those files, however, remain stored within Huddle’s secure cloud and retain all of their security, permissions, and versions, while being distributed to team members using tibbr’s enterprise social networking capabilities.

Users will have a unified work experience that brings together people and information in real-time, making both unstructured, immediate `social’ interactions and more structured file and document content shareable and discoverable in the same work environment.

“Our partnership with tibbr brings content collaboration and enterprise social networking together in one central environment for enterprises worldwide,” explains Alastair Mitchell, CEO, Huddle. “By placing content at the core of social interactions and giving customers the ability to use social features in tibbr to distribute and discuss Huddle content, we’re improving office workers’ productivity and efficiency. Now people no longer have to skip between multiple applications to get their jobs done.”

For tibbr users, this close partnership with Huddle allows full use of Huddle’s content collaboration service, providing users with a secure and accessible tool for storing and managing all business documents and files.