Nodeable, a startup that raised $2 million from True Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and Barton Asset Management, announced its “collaborative systems management tool for the cloud.”  The service aims to make the IT department’s day easier by wrapping up technical lingo and code with a social layer that can be compared with Facebook and Twitter streams and language.  In short, a long error message that would be produced by a more traditional management system can be displayed in a form resembling a tweet.

“The Nodeable Platform provides system intelligence and cloud service management capabilities using the communication methods made popular by big social media properties like Twitter and Facebook,” said Dave Rosenberg, CEO and co-founder of Nodeable.

It’s natural that as cloud services and analytical tools evolve, the rest of the ecosystem will follow. However, Nodeable also ties in with the consumerization of IT trend, which is the simplification of the individual user’s end of the corporate network.

Nodeable is a pretty good example of these shifts, but it’s not the only company that has taken a cue from social networks when seeking optimal formats for conveying messages within the workplace.  mBlast is a company that offers a cloud-based social media analysis product, which aggregates  data from Facebook, Twitter and other sources. Users can then easily gauge the influence of specific service within this stream, including their own.

In May mBlast introduced a free version of its SaaS to lure in smaller scale users, as well as bigger clients that may be interested in a trial run.

SugarCRM is another company at the convergence point of IT and social influences.  It features support for Android, iOS, as well as sync with Google Doc and InsideView, a social media aggregator. In April the company announced v6 of its offering, which features new functions and deeper integration.