the Oxfam stack as it currently stands includes Box for file sharing, a Drupal based instance of common intranets in the middle and then Facebook Workplace on top – all of which is then integrated with Okta, which solves the problem of single sign-on and identity for employees.
But how well is Facebook integrating with enterprise apps? I’ve read mixed things online about the social network’s ability to open up its APIs in the business world. However, thus far, Daniell and Oxfam have not found this to be a problem. He said :
The thing that blew me away, when we took a look at the out of the box toolset from Facebook, we said some of these things we have in here are counter to how we want users to use their information. For example, we don’t want a separate file share inside of Facebook – we need to use Box. So they launched integration with Box very quickly. You don’t expect that from a large organisation, but they were very quick to understand that they need to allow a business to figure out which elements of the cloud stack would integrate.
When using Office365 you can save to your computer, or your favourite cloud repository, so you can save to Box. Once they’re saved into Box, they can be seen directly within the Drupal-based intranet or seen directly in Facebook.
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