Wisdom (application)
Encyclopedia
Wisdom is a Facebook
application
released by Strategy Network Incorporated. It runs on MicroStrategy
Gateway technology
. The Wisdom application is available for free and links with the user’s Facebook social graph
.
, a business intelligence
firm. MicroStrategy president and CEO Michael Saylor
stated in 2011, “We've created an application development division to create applications that integrate the social networks and the cloud networks back into our customers' applications and also our own, like Wisdom.”
available through their social networks. At the MicroStrategy World 2011 user conference
in Monte Carlo
, Facebook CIO
Tim Campos made a presentation discussing the impact of social media
and how social is transforming industries today.
Features include:
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
application
Application software
Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...
released by Strategy Network Incorporated. It runs on MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, Inc. , is a business intelligence software vendor. MicroStrategy's software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make more strategic business decisions...
Gateway technology
MicroStrategy Gateway
MicroStrategy Gateway is a cloud-based service provided by MicroStrategy, Inc. that connects enterprise applications to the Facebook social graph...
. The Wisdom application is available for free and links with the user’s Facebook social graph
Social graph
The social graph is a term coined by scientists working in the social areas of graph theory. It has been described as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related"...
.
Application development
Wisdom is powered by MicroStrategyMicroStrategy
MicroStrategy, Inc. , is a business intelligence software vendor. MicroStrategy's software enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make more strategic business decisions...
, a business intelligence
Business intelligence
Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
firm. MicroStrategy president and CEO Michael Saylor
Michael J. Saylor
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur, industrialist, and co-founder of MicroStrategy, Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in business intelligence , enterprise reporting, dashboard, and OLAP software. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive...
stated in 2011, “We've created an application development division to create applications that integrate the social networks and the cloud networks back into our customers' applications and also our own, like Wisdom.”
Usage and features
Wisdom is described as an application that enhances Facebook by helping users make sense of the amount of dataBig data
Big data are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing...
available through their social networks. At the MicroStrategy World 2011 user conference
Trade fair
A trade fair is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products, service, study activities of rivals and examine recent market trends and opportunities...
in Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....
, Facebook CIO
CIO
CIO is an acronym that may refer to: Organizations* Congress of Industrial Organizations, a former United States trade union federation that merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955* Central Intelligence Organisation, the secret police in Zimbabwe* alternate acronym...
Tim Campos made a presentation discussing the impact of social media
Social media
The term Social Media refers to the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into an interactive dialogue. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0,...
and how social is transforming industries today.
Features include:
- FriendFilter: Filter friends quickly using demographic characteristics and location. This feature negates the need to manually create Friend Lists on Facebook.
- Feed: The “Intelligent Feed” organizes Facebook updates from the user’s Friend network, by placing posts into categories such as “Romance”, “Travel” and “Career”. Displays posts from up to 30 days ago, instead of Facebook’s usual display of only the last 3 days of information in the News Feed.
- Chatter: Allows user to view discussions between their friends and their friends’ friends to see the most popular conversations in their Facebook network.
- Events: Organizes Facebook Events by popularity, date, number (or percent) friends attending, and demographics such as gender and relationship status.
- Places: Displays all Facebook Places “check-ins” from across a user’s social network.
- Interests: Shows which Interests are popular within one’s network – including the most frequently liked movies, music, books, TV shows, and bars.
- About Me: This view includes interactive dashboardDashboard (business)Dashboard provides at-a-glance views of key performance indicators relevant to a particular objective or business process...
-style elements of the user’s Facebook usage statistics and network of friends. - Friends: Friends list that can be browsed and filtered by age, location, relationship, etc. Also displays each person’s most recent status update.