Enterprise social collaboration
The enterprise social collaboration architecture addresses services that support an enterprise social platform. This design also includes the internal and external extension points needed for data and services integration. These capabilities can be applied in modules. The interfaces between the social collaboration platform and on-premises systems are important when defining the final system architecture.
Cloud customer reference architecture for enterprise social collaboration
The cloud customer reference architecture for enterprise social collaboration is explained in the following sections.
Architecture Overview

Figure5: Elements of enterprise social collaboration
User network
The user network allows end users to interact with cloud provider services. These services are classified as desktop (client), mobile, and web applications. The end user enters requests for enterprise social collaboration services and receives results after processing has been completed...