Connect People is about promoting connections with and between people in your organisation. It directs individuals to people with the knowledge, expertise and experience to help.
At its heart is the Next Generation People Profile, which stimulates users to engage, underpinning collaborative activities and beyond…
| | Keys to success... Creating a Destination of Choice
The key to achieving successful user engagement is in making your site the destination of choice - people have to want to use it. That's why Connect People is designed to be simple and intuitive to use, integrating with your other systems to be as accessible as possible. User Engagement
Whilst maintaining their core information, people are encouraged to submit their tacit knowledge, providing context in support of more explicit contributions elsewhere online. Data quality
Connect encourages adoption of its managed reference data, enabling broad conformance too an organisation's terminology, structures and processes - minimising data duplication and sharing data with other systems where ever possible. |
Key Benefits:
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 | For People - PROVIDES CONTEXT
- enables a user to quickly identify people who are most likely to be both able and willing to help them
- provides a user with tacit context for individuals in support of interpreting explicit contributions they’ve made elsewhere e.g. enterprise social submissions
- IMPROVES DATA QUALITY
- single Personal Profile available to view and update within the local intranet and cloud, with direct bi-directional synchronisation to Active Directory
- self-service reduces update latency often experienced through centralised support
- use of structured data selection over free text improves data integrity
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| For the Business - EFFECTIVE PEOPLE FINDER
- provides a very powerful people finder which exposes tacit knowledge base within the organisation, supporting enterprise social strategies, collaboration and learning initiatives
- AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LISTS
- reduces need to manually manage exchange email distribution lists - provides ‘zero’ management distribution lists for Organisational and Geographic Hierarchies
- DYNAMIC ORGANISATIONAL CHART
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| For IT - REDUCES IN INTERVENTIONS
- reduces data cleansing interventions - use of structured data selection over free text input, telephony validation
- enhanced data integrity improves robustness of dependent systems
- extensive API enable third-party applications to make use of and maintain both Connect data and Web Parts
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