Benefits of Soundience Social Network Analysis

Social Network Analysis, and in particular our approach to it, offers many benefits:

Better results through improved collaboration

Objectively identfy connections that really determine how work gets done, not what the org charts say
Pinpoint "hubs" who may be too central in connecting disparate groups
Identify people who need to be connected more
Monitor the actual integration between groups after a merger or reorganization
Create a platform that is tailored to individual productivity, but delivers group-wide results

A visual way to see your networks

Filter and visually highlight person and link attributes (e.g., by location, role, or organization)
Create, save, and share any number of diagrams
Create many of the pages required for a typical Social Network Analysis project, can be exported to PowerPoint
Automatically create personalized Social Networking Analysis pages for each participant

Analysis of key network characteristics

Perform many of the standard analysis metrics of social networks
Find clusters, components, key people in the network
Find paths between any two people in the network
Import and export data for analysis with other SNA packages, such as Pajek and UCI Net (can be adapted for others)

Understand your networks in a collaborative way

Runs over the web, so not restricted to one machine
Links, diagrams, and reports can be annotated by users
User blog entries to share interesting findings about the network
Users can attach files
People can invite people into the network; any person added to the network automatically has a login id

Ensure security and privacy

Participants can mark entries about themselves or their connections with varying degrees of privacy
Runs behind SSL (secure sockets layer) for encrypted access
No access without authentication (passwords, plus other possibilities such as IP address, LDAP, etc.)
Changes to data are logged and can be audited