Unified Communications is a next generation team collaboration platform that provides:
1) A single tool to manage all projects across teams and locations with searchable communication archives.
2) Web meetings, group intelligence tools, and secure document access to enhance productivity for distributed workforces.
3) Features like dashboards, meeting rooms, team collaboration tools, document management, and issue tracking to facilitate project management and knowledge sharing.
Managing meetings effectively with activitiesLetsConnect
Presentation by Marion Vrielink & Sasja Beerendonk as given on November 30th in Amsterdam for Social Connections IV, the IBM Connections user group event
Dialogue by Nucraft is a meeting furniture system that integrates audio and visual technology to connect people in meeting spaces. It allows for documents and ideas to be easily shared, remote participants to join via clear audio conferencing, and real-time visual interaction through high-definition video conferencing. This optimized meeting space enhances collaboration, improves outcomes and productivity, and reduces costs compared to other audio-visual systems.
This teacher's guide provides instructions for leading a workshop on sharing vision as a digital professional. The instructor is told to have participants settle in for 2 minutes of silent reflection before asking for their thoughts. Discussion should be limited to 3-5 exchanges of no more than 2 minutes each. The workshop aims to help participants see themselves as leaders representing their vision, and adopt the tools and approaches needed to effectively share their vision online, such as using websites and social media to engage others. Proficiency with basic digital tools is now expected for all professionals just as proficiency with Microsoft Word once was.
This guide provides instructions for using Meetin.gs, an online tool for organizing meetings. It allows users to create shared online spaces for meetings including files, documents, notes and agendas. Participants are kept up-to-date via email and can use existing tools like smartphones to access meetings. The guide outlines how to setup and schedule meetings, add materials and invite participants, take comments, and use other features like address books and email updates.
The document provides guidance and resources for chapter leaders to help members maximize the value of their WCR membership through involvement. It discusses asking members to volunteer rather than waiting for them to do so. Effective ways of asking are outlined, along with tips for matching members to suitable tasks based on their interests and skills. The importance of involvement for members' personal and professional growth is highlighted through testimonials. Trends in membership expectations are reviewed. Sample communications for recruiting member involvement are included.
The document proposes institutionalizing systems and processes for NASSCOM's volunteer-driven organization to help it scale efficiently. It suggests building a self-sustaining open volunteer system based on open-source/wiki models to facilitate transparent task and project management. The system would track tasks, measure volunteer effectiveness through ratings, and provide rewards to motivate volunteers. Setting up the system may require a dedicated volunteer for 2 months using open-source collaboration software.
Windsor Public Library was struggling with maintaining their public access computers, which required a significant amount of staff time. They previously deployed a thin client solution but it did not meet their needs of being secure, scalable, and providing a rich environment for users. Userful Desktop provided centralized management that saved the library significant IT and administrative costs. It included over 40 applications and languages. Userful also provided full support and maintenance of the solution. This allowed the library staff to focus on other priorities rather than maintaining the public access computers.
Managing meetings effectively with activitiesLetsConnect
Presentation by Marion Vrielink & Sasja Beerendonk as given on November 30th in Amsterdam for Social Connections IV, the IBM Connections user group event
Dialogue by Nucraft is a meeting furniture system that integrates audio and visual technology to connect people in meeting spaces. It allows for documents and ideas to be easily shared, remote participants to join via clear audio conferencing, and real-time visual interaction through high-definition video conferencing. This optimized meeting space enhances collaboration, improves outcomes and productivity, and reduces costs compared to other audio-visual systems.
This teacher's guide provides instructions for leading a workshop on sharing vision as a digital professional. The instructor is told to have participants settle in for 2 minutes of silent reflection before asking for their thoughts. Discussion should be limited to 3-5 exchanges of no more than 2 minutes each. The workshop aims to help participants see themselves as leaders representing their vision, and adopt the tools and approaches needed to effectively share their vision online, such as using websites and social media to engage others. Proficiency with basic digital tools is now expected for all professionals just as proficiency with Microsoft Word once was.
This guide provides instructions for using Meetin.gs, an online tool for organizing meetings. It allows users to create shared online spaces for meetings including files, documents, notes and agendas. Participants are kept up-to-date via email and can use existing tools like smartphones to access meetings. The guide outlines how to setup and schedule meetings, add materials and invite participants, take comments, and use other features like address books and email updates.
The document provides guidance and resources for chapter leaders to help members maximize the value of their WCR membership through involvement. It discusses asking members to volunteer rather than waiting for them to do so. Effective ways of asking are outlined, along with tips for matching members to suitable tasks based on their interests and skills. The importance of involvement for members' personal and professional growth is highlighted through testimonials. Trends in membership expectations are reviewed. Sample communications for recruiting member involvement are included.
The document proposes institutionalizing systems and processes for NASSCOM's volunteer-driven organization to help it scale efficiently. It suggests building a self-sustaining open volunteer system based on open-source/wiki models to facilitate transparent task and project management. The system would track tasks, measure volunteer effectiveness through ratings, and provide rewards to motivate volunteers. Setting up the system may require a dedicated volunteer for 2 months using open-source collaboration software.
Windsor Public Library was struggling with maintaining their public access computers, which required a significant amount of staff time. They previously deployed a thin client solution but it did not meet their needs of being secure, scalable, and providing a rich environment for users. Userful Desktop provided centralized management that saved the library significant IT and administrative costs. It included over 40 applications and languages. Userful also provided full support and maintenance of the solution. This allowed the library staff to focus on other priorities rather than maintaining the public access computers.
The document discusses the features and capabilities of the INPLEX collaboration software. It describes how INPLEX acts as a central lobby or homepage that allows users to check on meeting status, tutorials, and advertisements. Key features highlighted include co-browsing websites, co-gesturing, co-drawing, co-chatting, file sharing, and video synchronization across any number of participants from different locations. A variety of use cases are provided such as remote training, design collaboration, telemedicine, and more.
With the rise of remote work, the need for effective tools to facilitate remote collaboration and productivity has become essential. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the best remote working tools that can help you and your team work efficiently from anywhere.
1. Groupware aims to facilitate collaboration between individuals located remotely by eliminating distance.
2. It refers to software that supports cooperative work, including communication, coordination, and sharing of information.
3. Effective groupware addresses both technical and social aspects of human interaction and collaboration.
Online collaboration allows groups to work together in real-time over the internet without needing to be in the same physical location. There are several tools that enable online collaboration, including Google Docs, Dropbox, Skype, Google Hangouts, and OneDrive. These tools allow multiple users to edit documents, share files, and communicate simultaneously. The main benefits of online collaboration are that it enables sharing of resources across locations, faster decision making, more efficient problem solving, and reduced costs compared to traditional approaches.
Are meetings the worst part of your day? Do you find that meetings drag on and nothing ever gets resolved? With these tips you can cut down meeting time, solve problems more quickly... and, who knows, maybe even enjoy your meetings.
Insights on building and managing virtual teamsRomeu Gaspar
Virtual teams are becoming more common as economic activity becomes more dispersed globally. There are several challenges to managing virtual teams effectively. To address these challenges, it is important to:
1) Get to know all team members personally to build trust and bonds even though you cannot interact in person.
2) Keep everyone in the loop by sharing information openly and having periodic team calls to maintain collaboration and pace.
3) Clearly allocate responsibilities and use task trackers to ensure all work is properly distributed and progressing as planned.
4) Discuss potentially controversial issues early on to set a tone of trust and avoid last-minute pressures.
3GSP is a webconferencing solution that is easy to use, integrated, and reliable. It allows groups to share documents and talk virtually, making remote work as easy as an in-person meeting. 3GSP aims to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and lower environmental impacts through virtual meetings. It offers high quality audio and video with no installation needed.
Presentation at the Serious Games Institute October 27, 2009 by Ron Edwards on the nature of work, drivers of collaboration and need for better tools, and how virtual worlds are an optimum fit for enterprise collaboration. Ron is the CEO of Ambient Performance in London.
Lumo Flow is a social collaboration platform that combines discussions, tasks, documents, and external content to provide a shared workspace for teams. It aims to increase transparency, encourage knowledge sharing, and improve collaboration. Key features include managing projects and tasks, sharing information through wikis and discussions, delegating work, and integrating other services like calendars and notifications. The tool is designed to foster communication for distributed, co-located, and customer-facing teams.
At Social Shared we take teamwork and project management to another level.Social Shared
Increase the profitability of your company. Improve communication with your employees, clients and suppliers. Manage your projects and collaborate from anywhere and any device.
The document discusses different technology tools that can be used by executive assistants to incorporate technology into their daily routines, including Poll Everywhere for polling audiences, BlueJeans for video conferencing, Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms for collaboration, and Smartsheets for project management and tracking tasks. It provides examples of how each tool can be used for different types of meetings, presentations, planning events, and tracking items. The document also includes screenshots demonstrating how the various tools work and their key features.
This document discusses teams and virtual teams. It defines a team as a group of people who come together to achieve a common purpose, whether short or long term. It then lists factors for building a productive team such as having clear goals and delegating authority. The document defines a virtual team as relying primarily on electronic communication. It discusses challenges of virtual teams including building cohesion and trust without in-person interaction. Overall, the document provides an overview of teams and virtual teams, their characteristics, tools used, and advantages and disadvantages.
collaboration of Cloud computing groupwarepsingh272001
The document discusses cloud collaboration and its benefits. It can be summarized as follows:
Cloud collaboration allows employees to work together on documents and files stored remotely outside of a company's network. It enables real-time collaboration where multiple users can edit a file simultaneously. All changes are automatically saved and synced so everyone has access to the latest version. This facilitates improved teamwork, access to large files, and support for remote work.
This Presentation provides a detailed insight about Collaborating Using Cloud Services Email Communication over the Cloud - CRM Management – Project Management-Event
Management - Task Management – Calendar - Schedules - Word Processing –
Presentation – Spreadsheet - Databases – Desktop - Social Networks and Groupware.
The document discusses the features and capabilities of the INPLEX collaboration software. It describes how INPLEX acts as a central lobby or homepage that allows users to check on meeting status, tutorials, and advertisements. Key features highlighted include co-browsing websites, co-gesturing, co-drawing, co-chatting, file sharing, and video synchronization across any number of participants from different locations. A variety of use cases are provided such as remote training, design collaboration, telemedicine, and more.
With the rise of remote work, the need for effective tools to facilitate remote collaboration and productivity has become essential. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the best remote working tools that can help you and your team work efficiently from anywhere.
1. Groupware aims to facilitate collaboration between individuals located remotely by eliminating distance.
2. It refers to software that supports cooperative work, including communication, coordination, and sharing of information.
3. Effective groupware addresses both technical and social aspects of human interaction and collaboration.
Online collaboration allows groups to work together in real-time over the internet without needing to be in the same physical location. There are several tools that enable online collaboration, including Google Docs, Dropbox, Skype, Google Hangouts, and OneDrive. These tools allow multiple users to edit documents, share files, and communicate simultaneously. The main benefits of online collaboration are that it enables sharing of resources across locations, faster decision making, more efficient problem solving, and reduced costs compared to traditional approaches.
Are meetings the worst part of your day? Do you find that meetings drag on and nothing ever gets resolved? With these tips you can cut down meeting time, solve problems more quickly... and, who knows, maybe even enjoy your meetings.
Insights on building and managing virtual teamsRomeu Gaspar
Virtual teams are becoming more common as economic activity becomes more dispersed globally. There are several challenges to managing virtual teams effectively. To address these challenges, it is important to:
1) Get to know all team members personally to build trust and bonds even though you cannot interact in person.
2) Keep everyone in the loop by sharing information openly and having periodic team calls to maintain collaboration and pace.
3) Clearly allocate responsibilities and use task trackers to ensure all work is properly distributed and progressing as planned.
4) Discuss potentially controversial issues early on to set a tone of trust and avoid last-minute pressures.
3GSP is a webconferencing solution that is easy to use, integrated, and reliable. It allows groups to share documents and talk virtually, making remote work as easy as an in-person meeting. 3GSP aims to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and lower environmental impacts through virtual meetings. It offers high quality audio and video with no installation needed.
Presentation at the Serious Games Institute October 27, 2009 by Ron Edwards on the nature of work, drivers of collaboration and need for better tools, and how virtual worlds are an optimum fit for enterprise collaboration. Ron is the CEO of Ambient Performance in London.
Lumo Flow is a social collaboration platform that combines discussions, tasks, documents, and external content to provide a shared workspace for teams. It aims to increase transparency, encourage knowledge sharing, and improve collaboration. Key features include managing projects and tasks, sharing information through wikis and discussions, delegating work, and integrating other services like calendars and notifications. The tool is designed to foster communication for distributed, co-located, and customer-facing teams.
At Social Shared we take teamwork and project management to another level.Social Shared
Increase the profitability of your company. Improve communication with your employees, clients and suppliers. Manage your projects and collaborate from anywhere and any device.
The document discusses different technology tools that can be used by executive assistants to incorporate technology into their daily routines, including Poll Everywhere for polling audiences, BlueJeans for video conferencing, Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms for collaboration, and Smartsheets for project management and tracking tasks. It provides examples of how each tool can be used for different types of meetings, presentations, planning events, and tracking items. The document also includes screenshots demonstrating how the various tools work and their key features.
This document discusses teams and virtual teams. It defines a team as a group of people who come together to achieve a common purpose, whether short or long term. It then lists factors for building a productive team such as having clear goals and delegating authority. The document defines a virtual team as relying primarily on electronic communication. It discusses challenges of virtual teams including building cohesion and trust without in-person interaction. Overall, the document provides an overview of teams and virtual teams, their characteristics, tools used, and advantages and disadvantages.
collaboration of Cloud computing groupwarepsingh272001
The document discusses cloud collaboration and its benefits. It can be summarized as follows:
Cloud collaboration allows employees to work together on documents and files stored remotely outside of a company's network. It enables real-time collaboration where multiple users can edit a file simultaneously. All changes are automatically saved and synced so everyone has access to the latest version. This facilitates improved teamwork, access to large files, and support for remote work.
This Presentation provides a detailed insight about Collaborating Using Cloud Services Email Communication over the Cloud - CRM Management – Project Management-Event
Management - Task Management – Calendar - Schedules - Word Processing –
Presentation – Spreadsheet - Databases – Desktop - Social Networks and Groupware.
2. Do you have one tool to manage all your projects across all the teams and all the locations ?
Do you have all of your project based communication archived and searchable at one place ?
Do you find almost impossible to find or track all the tasks, issues and approvals for projects in a systemized way ?
Do you feel a need to have knowledge management tool for tracking project related information ?
How do you track , organize and refer to the knowledge your people have gained while working on projects ?
Do you feel that most of the expensive tools you have purchase are grossly unutilized ?
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4. Transitioning Desktop to Webtop
Sit Anyplace, Go Anyplace, yet, stay connected with your team
All Digital Communication Tools converged at one place along with complete knowledge managment
Web Meetings – A Tool to Enhance Productivity of Each Employee
Group Intelligence Tools - Growth Through Global Workforce Participation
Documents – Secure Availability as well as Change Notifications
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5. Feature 1: Confluo Dashboard
Benefits
Confluo dashboard gives user a complete view of all the events on Confluo dash board puts you
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Confluo, and puts the user in complete control of all that. The
completely in control of all your
dashboard gives a complete overview for the days schedule showing
all the tasks, issues and approvals that need to addressed that day. In activities on Confluo by providing
addition to that it provides notification about meetings, events, you an instant access to all the
unread messages, scraps, new RSS feeds available and an instant
unread messages, scraps, new RSS feeds available and an instant information you need.
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access organization wide message board.
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6. Feature 2: Confluo Meeting Rooms
Benefits
Modern organizations, face challenges, not only with having a
diversified work force, but also the fact that these people work on
diversified work force but also the fact that these people work on Travel Less, Work More: Don't
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different location and across different time zones. A lot of time, waste time, money, and energy
energy and resources are spent in getting these distributed resources traveling to a meeting
to meet. More so people spend a lot of time in travelling to have
meeting with partners, vendors and customers. Confluo provides an Collaborate and make decision
alternate to these meeting in form of online meetings. faster: With instant desktop
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sharing you bring all the concerned
parties at one place so that you can
collaborate and make decisions
faster
Unlimited Online Meetings: We do
not restrict the number of
meeting. So that you can
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unlimited meeting with up to 30
participants in a meeting.
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7. Feature 3: Confluo Teams on Go
Benefits
Every major work in an organization is done by a team, but we tend to It’s your own Virtual Office:
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ignore this key element of the organizational hierarchy. Most of the
Confluo teams acts as your virtual
time the top management do not have much of an idea, about how
many they have, who are the members in those teams, what are they office, where you have access to
working on and above all the issues faced by them. This simple all the people , the tools and the
information can help management plan things much better and they
information can help management plan things much better and they content you need to work with
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can obtain much higher level of productivity. Confluo lets you do that
via Confluo Teams
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8. Feature 4: Confluo Document Manager
Benefits
We all have faced situations where we wanted to access a very Carry all your documents along
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important file on our office computer while in a meeting or
with you, where ever you go. No
presentation and wondered if there was a way to do so, easily and
securely. Or the facility to access all your work related document, hard disk, no pen drives, no
from anywhere in the world, without having the risk of laptops, just access your
carrying a laptop. Confluo allows you to do that and much more, with
carrying a laptop. Confluo allows you to do that and much more, with documents from any part of the
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a built in document manager. world from any computer
connected to the Internet.
Unlimited Storage: With unlimited
storage at offer, space would be
the last thing on your mind
Versioning support makes it very
easy to maintain versions of the
easy to maintain versions of the
same document, without
having to install a separate
versioning system.
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9. Feature 5: Confluo Issues Manager
Benefits
Tracking and managing issues properly is an essential component to No need to install a separate issue
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effective operations within all organizations, but people find the issue
management tool, instead use, this
management system quite complex to use. They want a simple
issue management system, that is easily available and provides a simple yet power full tool manage
tracking mechanisms so that they know when exactly the issues are all your issues
going to be resolved and who is working on them. More so, dedicated
going to be resolved and who is working on them. More so, dedicated
system for issues, other systems in the organization and thus cannot Confluo Issue Manager definitely
be used to the full benefit of the users. Confluo solves that, building a helps keep issues from falling
issue management system and that is easy to use and is integrated through the cracks and the
with task management system in Confluo. troops from getting grumpy!
With issues being transparently
created, tracked and resolved not
only increases productivity
but also increase the satisfaction
b t l i th ti f ti
levels of the employees.
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10. Feature 6: Confluo Tasks Manager
Benefits
It is very difficult in present day organization to know who is working Helps you prioritize and assign
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on what, leave aside finding which task have been delayed or need
work, not within teams, but with
attention. Confluo offers Simple Task Management for simple people,
so that they are to use task manager in their day to day work and individuals and groups. This
keep track of delays and priorities. simple tool takes away the need to
installing a separate task manager
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Increases Productivity : We have
noticed the clear cut assignment of
task and their tracking
increases productivity a lot and
that what the task manager allow
you to do
Brings in transparency, as it
Brings in transparency, as it
presents a complete view of who is
working on what, at a centralized
location, within the organization
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11. Feature 7: Confluo Approvals
Benefits
We all take approvals, but most of the time either they are verbal, or Helps you prioritize and assign
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over the phone or in a chat, or in an email. There is centralized system
work, not within teams, but with
in the organization where all the approvals are recoded, tracked
and available for reference later. individuals and groups. This simple
tool takes away the need to
installing a separate task manager
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Confluo makes a central approval
repository within the organization
that not only logs all the approvals,
but provides tracking mechanism
b t id t ki h i
but stores them for ready
reference later.
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12. Feature 8: Confluo Business Networks
Benefits
Getting to distill folksonomies (the wisdom of the crowd) helps Business Networks can enable
members of a group get more involved in what they do. We all know,
companies to achieve the “network
more the brains are, more innovative the solutions would be. Hence
organization badly need a platform that would allow people to come effect” through group
together tap the collective knowledge of groups and can provide for collaboration. They help employees
open dialogue and innovation.
open dialogue and innovation. keep tabs on relevant topics,
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besides of course adding to the
overall knowledge management
system.
Confluo lets you tap the collective
Confluo lets you tap the collective
knowledge of the extended team
by creating dynamic, networks
committed to open dialogue and
innovation. These networks help
innovation These networks help
people interact and make members
of a group more involved in what
they do.
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13. Feature 9: Confluo Universal Communicator
Benefits
Universal Communicator, the next generation context interface, Universal communicator provides
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presents Confluo users all the active communication features. These
an instant connectivity and
include phone calls, SMS, Instant Messaging (IM/Chat) Email, instant
desktop sharing, and instant access to documents and access with the converges communication
member on whose name the mouse cursor is, with just one click of channels available so that you can
the mouse. This provides you with an instant communication
the mouse. This provides you with an instant communication communicate quickly and
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platform with all relevant options available effectively
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14. Benefits
In Confluo, each functional element is fully
integrated and seamlessly Connected , so that
you can quickly and easily access the people,
tools, and content that you need: every time,
every where, and everyone's included
No set up cost, roll out cost, no software
required, you are ready to go from the very first
second
It converges your communication, your
It converges your communication your
documents and your processes seamlessly and
effectively
Tracking Logging Utilizing It has built into many productivity tools to boost
organization efficiency and effectiveness
organization efficiency and effectiveness
It transcends the boundaries of communication
between your partners, customers and vendors
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15. Business Benefits
Physical location is no longer a barrier in building effective teams.
Group Intelligence Tools bring power of collaboration to your business.
Rather than writing emails, dragging them in different folders, and then not finding needed email on
time, there is a better and more organized forum facility.
Since all collaboration is done using Confluo, you will be gathering information that can be later mined
to see who are your better workers and who need training or more supervision, or who all contribute
more to your success.
No need to use disparate systems like webex, Remedy, Documentum, and various other in‐house
software to build digital work place.
Adopting Confluo today means you are ready for tomorrow’s workplace where next generation
employees are attuned to work with SMS, Forums, Wikis, Blogs, Web portals, and so on.
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16. Summary
The biggest challenges that modern organizations face are not in terms of the people or the information system they
have, but more in the form of how these information systems work to, for and with the people they have been designed
for. With the wide adoption of internet, several digital mediums have evolved for communicating with each other. But do
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these mediums actually talk with your people or processes.
That is where CONFLUO fits in; it is the meeting point of business processes and business communication.
Confluo provides you the ability to connect people with process; or we may say the enterprise applications. Confluo
Confluo provides you the ability to connect people with process; or we may say the enterprise applications Confluo
provides you the mechanism by which your business systems actually talk to your people. Using Confluo you would be
able to bridge the gap between the business processes and the communication that actually make (or runs) these
processes.
Conflou will allow you to:
1. Converge all your information mediums at one place, be it e ]mail, chat or SMS and the ability to seamlessly
communicate through these mediums
2. The ability to effectively store, track and retrieve all the communication that ever happened through it.
3. Always have clear insight to the communication that happened behind the business activities like, task, approvals,
3 Always have clear insight to the communication that happened behind the business activities like task approvals
planning and execution.
4. The ability associate or embed these communication with the business processes and systems you have.
5. Confluo helps make people, processes, and information easily available to everyone with Authorization
So Let’s Confluo!
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Thank You for Viewing This Presentation!
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A Next Generation Team Collaboration Platform
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