These modes of work can be augmented and accelerated through additional tools and platforms, such as the Microsoft enterprise software suite: Sharepoint, Unified Communications and FAST Search.
Sharepoint can implement the various Social Business features, like Activity Streams, and the FAST Search engine then provides a powerful toolset for managing the large complexity of information that can arise.
For example even Microsoft themselves experienced the ‘Sharepoint Sprawl’ effect, where a lack of standards for Sharepoint sites and taxonomy structures within them resulted in a widespread collection of random web sites and unorganized content postings. In other words their organizational Big Data.