Five Across Connect

Five Across Connect is the leading social networking and community building platform for enterprise and small business organizations. The third in the lineage of products founded on Five Across' platform technology, Connect is a rapid-deploy web publishing platform that enables organizations to grow a user base, build proximity with their brand and ultimately leverage that community for many revenue based opportunities. Media companies using Connect can leverage user profile pages and user-content generated pages to build ad revenue. Consumer based enterprises can leverage communities to build brand proximity and sports networks can use communities to increase event attendance or build excitement around the sport.


The Five Across Connect web platform is deployed on your server and customized to your brand and feature needs. Connect's key benefits include:

  • Quick Implementation
    Implementation can be as short as two days depending upon the amount of customization required.

  • Rich End-User Features
    Connect features the most innovative and trend-setting technologies, including blogging, video, podcasting, file uploads, RSS, friends, groups and more. Each feature can be easily turned on or off, based on your needs. Read our End User Features for more details.

  • Powerful Provider Features
    Simple, GUI interface administrative tools make it easy to change end-user features, without making cumbersome code changes. Providers can determine what type of moderation they want to deploy with multiple methods of configuration. In addition, you can keep your user-generated content “clean” and reduce profanity with a unique “blacklist” functionality that automatically blacks out non-appropriate words in user content posts. Read our Administrative Features for more details.

  • High Performance and Scalabilty
    Five Across' platform eliminates issues associated with social network sites and blogs. Connect can accommodate hundreds of thousands of users on a single server without performance issues.