Today, we unveiled a major leap forward for our flagship integrated community platform. Pluck 5 builds on our momentum and architecture from Pluck 4. It incorporates input and best practices from our collection of more than 500 amazing, enterprise-class, customer communities. It is uniquely tuned to drive tangible business benefits tied to our Community Value Framework.

With Pluck 5, we’ve added more Applications and grouped them into functional families. We’ve totally redone our Forums experience.  We’ve furthered themes optimized for Web, mobile and social experiences. Pluck 5 powers the pivotal strategy of one community platform, available across digital channels, regions and languages.

Pluck 5 further pushes our quest to be the most flexible community platform on the market. With 428 Social Components now available through the Pluck API – and accessible via six SDKs – Pluck enables brands to offer a seamless, pervasive and consistent community experience. We’ve also revamped our core server elements as ten Engines, better surfacing and documenting the power under the covers of Pluck. And we’ve extended our myriad of promotion, information and direction services, now available as seven Collections types.  

We’re confident to continue to use the same core Technology infrastructure with Pluck 5. The Pluck platform has demonstrated speed, scale and stability, empowering massive customers like Target, NFL and USA Today to confidently deploy Pluck broadly.

With Pluck 5, we’re grateful to our customers for all of the exceptional ideas and feedback. We’re thrilled to help the industry continue to push innovative uses of community for tangible results. Thanks also to the exceptional Pluck product management, engineering, QA and services teams for your vision, persistence and dedication to excellence.

Elements of Pluck 5 are available in beta today. The product will be full GA in Q4 2011. Please drop us a line if you'd like to learn more.