Jambok: Knowledge Sharing in The Cloud

Jambok  is a SaaS platform that makes organizations and communities to share the knowledge in the cloud. Jambok is ideal for the “informal learning” (everything that’s not official training) part of corporate communications, the Jambok platform enables you to post photos, audio, video as well as screen capture of your desktop in order to share knowledge within your company or organization.

As an elaborate multimedia wiki, Jambok allows for number of ways to upload and socially engage with enterprise data or content, supports a wide variety of media options including Powerpoint and screen capture. The important feature of Jambok is this is available on the mobile, enabling users to rate, tag, and comment on the go while still maintaining enterprise level security.

Attempting to capitalize on the theory that most on-the-job learning is informal, Jambok was the first to market in the burgeoning informal learning niche, which includes Knowledge 2.0 players like Street Smarts and Cornerstone LMS.

Founded on May 2010 by former Sun Chief Learning Officer Karie Willyerd and former Sun Chief Technology officer Charles Beckham, Jambok is the first Software as a Service (SaaS) built specifically for informal learning.

Possible use cases for Jambok include launching new company wide features, organizing internal communications like collaborating on presentations, as well as the ongoing “unofficial” training of employees. Currently founder-funded, the nascent company boasts customers including Thomson-Reuters, British Telecom and Mitsubishi.