a great bit of research by Dan Keldsen and the Information Architected group.
Tapping the Power of your Enterprise Crowd
August 19, 2010 by billycripeEnterprise 2.0: It’s Time To Get Excited
August 6, 2010 by elarson3
The benefits of E2.0 spread further than you think.
As you saw in a previous post, businesses who adopt E2.0 technologies have potential to expand their company’s ROI. Now, with Oracle’s final report on this study, Enterprise 2.0: Driving Creativity, Productivity and Collaboration, we can see that the benefits of E2.0 extend far beyond monetary value.
Not only do pre-E2.0 technologies take longer to use when employees have to search for information in a number of different spots, but the study found that employees currently have to access over five different applications to complete their weekly tasks. It’s no wonder people feel overloaded with information!
Another finding stated that 40 percent of employees who use social networks in their personal lives said that these ways of communicating are easier to use and understand than those that they use in their workplace. So, when we put two and two together, we can see that the key to E2.0 is about integrating the attractiveness of social networks with the professional environment of a workplace.
By creating an internal wiki or blog, companies can provide their employees with a single place to collaborate with coworkers to get questions answered and conversations noted faster than traditional email-based ways of communicating. Since the majority of users already use social networks in their personal lives, they will already have familiarity with these technologies. Furthermore, using internal blogging or a wiki can help spread valuable knowledge and prevent its loss when employees leave the company.
One last point to drive home: weed out the old when you acquire the new. If companies only add new tools without removing any older ones, they will only end up with silos of repeated information. As explained further in Oracle’s report, businesses need to select only the one or two tools that work the best specifically for their company. This may take some trial and error, but will amount to incredible savings of time and energy when done successfully.
To find out more about how Fishbowl can help you launch your E2.0 networks, email us at 11g@fishbowlsolutions.com.
Fishbowl Helps Restart Chicago Area ECM Users Group
August 6, 2010 by kheiseAugust 2, 2010, Chicago
Earlier this week Fishbowl teamed up with Oracle to hold the first meeting of the Chicago Area ECM Users Group in more than two years. The meeting was held at Oracle in Chicago’s Willis Tower. Customers and partners joined together to discuss tips and questions surrounding Oracle’s UCM, URM, and IPM products. Topics centered around Oracle’s release of Universal Content Management 11g explaining the reasoning and advantages of upgrading as well as discussing migration issues and options.
Presentations for the meeting are now available:
Calculating E20 ROI: Lack of Information Management costs $2700 per USER per YEAR
July 23, 2010 by billycripe
And you say you cannot afford it?
Newly updated research (independently conducted but sponsored by Oracle) finds that the average worker spends approximately 60 minutes a week hunting for information NOT in a content management system. Furthermore, users creating information spend 74 minutes a week copying, pasting and duplicating data between documents.
terms of percentages this means that 2.5% of work time is lost to looking for the right information in paper drawers, email and shared drives. Lets call this search Lag.
Over 3% of work time is spent reinventing the wheel as people move digital bits from one document or form into another. Lets call this productivity Drag. Add it up and workers spend over 5% of their time hunting for or reinventing information.
All this lag and drag on the organization costs real money in salary. It doesn’t begin to calculate the cost of synchronizing information across all those duplicates, the cost of storing all that duplicate information, the cost of using the WRONG or OUTDATED version of something they found.
Effective Strategies for Searching Oracle UCM
July 13, 2010 by kheiseCheck out this presentation from Collaborate 2010 on improving search in Oracle UCM.
