Comparison of enterprise bookmarking platforms

The following tables compare enterprise bookmarking platforms.

General

The table provides an overview of Enterprise Bookmarking platforms. The platforms listed refer to an application that is installed on a web server (usually requiring MySQL or another database and PHP, perl, Python, or some other language for web apps).

Software	Developed by	Latest stable release	Cost (USD)	Contract support offered	Community website support	Open source	Multilingual	Programming language	User Interface	Notes
Connectbeam	Connectbeam	Spotlight 3.1 (2008-6)	per instance	Yes	No	No	No	binary only	browser	none
Dogear	IBM Corporation	2.0.1 (2009-3)	per instance	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	binary only	browser	does not run on mySQL, requires IBM DB2 9.1 FP5, Oracle Database 10g 10.2.0.3, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
Jumper 2.0	Jumper Networks	2.0.1.7 (2010-7)	Free	Yes	Yes	Yes - GPL	Yes	JavaScript & PHP	browser	runs on mySQL database for storing tag profiles. Can also be configured to run on Oracle Database 10g or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
Knowledge Plaza	Knowledge Plaza	2.3.18	free trial, starts at €35/month/instance	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	JavaScript and Python (programming language)	browser	Software-as-a-Service
Scuttle	Scuttle	0.9.0 (2013-04)	Free	No	No	Yes - GPL	No	JavaScript & PHP	browser	still in alpha stage

Date and content types

This table lists the types of data that can be tagged.

Software	Web pages	Documents	Images	Video	Emails	Contacts	Book references	Discussions	Wiki pages	Database tables	Flat-files	Notes
Connectbeam	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	none
Dogear	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	none
Jumper 2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	none
Knowledge Plaza	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	none
Scuttle	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	none

Content enrichment capabilities

Tags and metadata can be used to enrich previously described types of data and content. This table lists the default capabilities each platform provides.

Software	Keywords	Descriptions	Custom Tag Fields	Metadata	Knowledge Tags	Notes
Connectbeam	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	none
Dogear	Yes	No	No	No	No	none
Jumper 2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	none
Knowledge Plaza	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	none
Scuttle	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	none

Tag management capabilities

Enterprise bookmarking tools differ from social bookmarking tools in the way that they often have to meet taxonomy constraints. Tag management capabilities are the uphill (e.g. faceted classification, predefined tags) and downhill gardening (e.g. tag renaming, moving, merging) abilities that can be put in place to manage the folksonomy generated from user tagging.

Software	Faceted classification	Restricted facets	Mandatory facets	Predefined tags	Related/synonym tags	Notes
Connectbeam	No	No	No	No	No	none
Dogear	No	No	No	No	No	none
Jumper 2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	none
Knowledge Plaza	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	none
Scuttle	No	No	No	No	No	none

Platform and security capabilities

Security abilities at the platform level:

• On-premises, refers to an application that is installed on a web server behind the corporate firewall.
• Hosted, refers to a centrally-hosted website that is outside the corporate firewall
• Encryption level, refers to the level of encryption enforced by the application server

Security abilities at the application level:

• Access permissions, refers to the ability to define a list of users who have access to the application.
• Information-level permissions, refers to the ability to define per data/content item (e.g. a document) its accessibility/visibility within the application (invisible, downloadable, etc.)
• Workspace-level permissions, refers to the ability to create team spaces with different accessibility/visibility settings.
• Role-level permissions, refers to the ability to assign roles to users (e.g. administrator, guest, workspace expert) which will also affect accessibility/visibility settings.

Software	Hosted Platform	On-Premises Platform	Encryption level	Multi-user support	Access permissions	LDAP integration	Information-level permissions	Workspace-level permissions	Role-level permissions	Notes
Connectbeam	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	No	?	?	?	none
Dogear	No	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	The Lotus Connection Suite with Dogear runs on the AIX (Unix) operating system
Jumper 2.0	No	Yes	HTTPS optionally available	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LDAP integration is available
Knowledge Plaza	Yes	Yes	HTTPS with high-grade 256-bit AES	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	none
Scuttle	No	Yes	HTTPS optionally available	No	Yes	No	Yes	?		none

Server operating system support

In the case of web applications, this describes the server OS. For centrally-hosted websites that are proprietary, this is not applicable. Any client OS can connect to a web service unless stated otherwise in a footnote.

Software	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux	BSD	Unix	IIS	Apache	Notes
Connectbeam	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	none
Dogear	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	requires IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.13 for the web server
Jumper 2.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	none
Knowledge Plaza	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No OS management required. Infrastructure-as-a-Service for on-premises installation.
Scuttle	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	none

See also

• List of social bookmarking websites
• Comparison of reference management software
• List of social software