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Revenue and Increase Profit Margin with a Deployable Social Software Platform Purpose-built for Hosting Companies
Minimizes time to market go to market with a branded externally facing social software and private social networking solution quickly and efficiently. Expands customer base and market penetration create an up-sell opportunity that creates stickiness and reduces customer churn.

Customer Use Cases:

Professional Private Social Networks for Internal Collaboration Classroom Web Sites for Teachers Learning Management Systems for Schools Patient Relationship Management for Healthcare Social CRM for Companies Online Community Management Tools for o Teams, o Clubs, o Bands, o Organizations (NGOs etc.)

Hosting companies are looking for new ways to grow revenue, add new customers, increase profit margin and differentiate their offerings in a crowded marketplace. As the explosion of social networking increase, so does the demand for externally-facing social software and private social networks for internal collaboration. The OEM GROU.PS DIY Social Network Platform is a deployable software solution that enables hosting companies to quickly enter the fast growing social software market with competitive and attractively-priced social software services.
GROU.PS Inc. 530 University Ave Palo A lto, CA 94301 650.383.9975

Purpose-built for Hosting companies, the GROU.PS Platform is a highly scalable and multi-tenant solution that supports pay-for-use and premium feature pricing models and provides easy access using Web, desktop and smartphone clients. The GROU.PS API enables advanced services and programmatic access to GROU.PS powered social networks. GROU.PS solutions can be quickly deployed in any technology environment.
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Some of the popular platform features are:

Forums - Connect your power members and enthusiasts through peer-to-peer discussions. Through gamification, SEO optimization, and advanced management tools, set the bar for vibrant online communities with rich user- generated content. Knowledge Base - Empower customers / employees / fans / students / patients / teammates / members to turn peer generated conversations and knowledge from GROU.PS Communities into polished, searchable articles. GROU.PS puts the power of Wikipedia into your hands.

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Fig 1. Actual Private Social Network For Internal Collaboration

Fig 2. Look and feel and functionality of GROU.PS OEM solutions are extremely customizable.

 Blogs Build an audience by publishing content from your top experts. Blogs are one of the best ways to grow your following and keep your community informed. Groups - Empower trusted customers and employees to create and run their own areas of your online community. Create open or closed spaces for product betas, advisory boards, user groups, interest groups, and more. Ideas - Crowd-source innovation by enabling members to submit ideas, vote, and provide comments. Generate thousands of prioritized ideas that help you deepen member loyalty. Q&A Enlist expert customers to answer questions from peers.

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Fig 3. Private Social Network Growth Pace in the US. Based on data provided by Yammer

Fig 4. Nevertheless, GROU.PS comes with strong mobile support.

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