Many corporate synergy tools call themselves "corporate Facebook"

The business edition of Facebook at work, which was reported in November 2014, has been launched at Apple and Android App Store, waiting to be selected for trial business partners, along with Facebook at Work Web page.

The business version of Facebook at the work interface resembles a standard Facebook, which supports news push, messaging tools, and grouping functions. Facebook at work users can choose to log in separately or bundle their company information (set up via Facebook). However, office data and personal data are completely isolated, and Facebook says it will not collect any office data.

In addition, Facebook at work is currently only used for communication between colleagues, and its more direct competitors are Jive Software, Salesforce chatter, and Microsoft Yammer, which do not coincide fully with LinkedIn's business. However, LinkedIn yesterday also launched a number of corporate synergy tools. Business Facebook at Work no advertising service, so the potential source of revenue is the contribution of corporate users.

Many foreign companies will require employees to stay away from Facebook-type social networking sites at work, and even direct the company's IT managers to directly screen mainstream social network access. After Yammer, Facebook took the initiative to get into the business market so that the once popular concept of "corporate communication socialization" returned to mainstream discussions.

As of today, Facebook has 1.3 billion months of active users, and how much activity and profit growth can the business market bring? Interestingly, when Yammer was bought by Microsoft with a "corporate Facebook" stance, many domestic and foreign start-ups have made the banner of "employee social platforms are dead/false", but at the same time replicating highly similar products. Now that Facebook is really here, what's the picture?

Oppenheimer and Credit Suisse raised Facebook's target price to $100 and $102 respectively.