Connect with IBM Connections!
December 05, 2017
Connect with IBM Connections!
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with IBM Connections
Currently it is being used across the organization from frontline production workers to board members.
The business problems that it addresses are the following:
The business problems that it addresses are the following:
- Document editing/sharing/versions - instead of multiple emails and versions, there is now only one.
- All staff news is shared via a community blog
- Use of VPN has decreased - easy access to information and documents anywhere, increased safety for our intellectual property and confidential documents
- Individual departments house their manuals/resources in their own community
- Individual departments and committees house documents and meeting notes - one location
- Transparency is increasing since you can view open/moderated communities
- One sign-in - previously we had multiple sign-ins for different things, now you can access email, department manuals, company resources and in-house built systems
- The Newsfeed allows you to personalize and filter the information that you most need. Puts an end to extra emails or being bombarded with irrelevant information.
- The Activities and To-Do lists allow you to organize and easily manage meeting notes, agendas, and tasks.
- The desktop plug-in for documents allows you to work within Microsoft Word/Excel/PPT but then saves it to the Cloud allowing others to view it regardless of if they have Word, etc... on their computer.
- Document versioning allows you to keep/have access to all versions instead of having multiple copies of different versions floating around.
- The actual document editing is a little clunky - it's hard to format within it - that's where the desk-top plug-in comes in handy.
- It would be nice to be able to edit/customize your own Homepage and/or customize it based on the company's needs - i.e. relevant links/documents could be accessed there instead of a separate community.
- Easier navigation - seeing more of the breadcrumbs of where you are/have been.
- It'd be nice to be able to make/nest more subcommunities. Currently there can only be the parent community and a sub/child community. Same thing with the Wikis.
- While it is nice to see what information was last updated, it be nice to be able to see the community's wiki pages in the order/manner that they make most sense.
- Recently implemented with the whole company so no information available at this time.
We did not select IBM Connections via searching. We had a previous IBM product that was discontinued and so when we were given IBM Connections, we did evaluate it but not against other systems. However other one off products had been evaluated/used in the past but as I just said, it was a system/site that only provided a couple things you could do with it versus having it all integrated.