Examining how core capabilities in collaboration, delivered by technology solutions can be applied to line of business or industry use cases.

1. Let’s look at the Core
Capabilities

2. Secure File Sharing & Production
• File synchronisation & sharing on public cloud, private cloud or on-premises.
• Tight integration with desktop productivity tools, like Microsoft Office.
• Browser- and mobile- document editing and creation tools with simultaneous
editing.
• Version management, download counting, external sharing.
• Single version of the truth file sharing - one copy, multiple locations.
• Close integration with email tools like IBM Verse, Microsoft Outlook.
• Mac, Windows, iOS and Android support.
• Improves transparency, reduces risks, increases productivity.
IBM
Connections
Box

3. Document Sharing, Editing and Management in
IBM Connections, Connections Cloud

4. Document Sharing, Editing and Management in
IBM Connections, Connections Cloud
IBM
Connections

5. File Synchronization & Sharing in
IBM Connections, Connections Cloud
IBM
Connections

6. Document Sharing, Editing and Management in
Box Enterprise File Synchronization & Sharing
Box

7. File Synchronization & Sharing in
Box Enterprise File Sync and Sharing
Box

8. Improved Communications
• Use Blogs to publish news and information to those in a community, or
company-wide.
• Users can follow a blog to receive updates, or updates can be pushed.
• Status updates permit micro-blogging to provide short information bursts.
• Commenting permits discussions on any object, including files and wikis.
• Conversations can be maintained in synchronously (IBM Watson Workspace)
or asynchronously (IBM Connections).
• Use video and white boarding in web meetings to work simultaneously.
• Improves transparency, reduces risks, increases productivity.
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace

9. Blogging and Company Newsletters
IBM
Connections

10. Synchronous & Asynchronous Conversations
IBM Watson Workspace cognitive,
synchronous conversations
Ideal for quick resolutions & discussion.
IBM Connections Forums
Ideal as a long term reference.
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace

11. Video and Audio Web Conferencing
IBM Connections Cloud Meetings Cisco WebEx
IBM
Connections
Cisco WebEx

12. Knowledge Capture and Management
• Forums and comments act as great ways to collect knowledge by asking
questions.
• Question and answer pairs are fully searchable.
• Answers can be “accepted” to highlight agreed outcomes.
• All content contributed is fully searchable.
• Real-time knowledge capture with IBM Watson Workspace.
• Personal knowledge capture and management with personal wiki or Box Notes.
• Improves transparency, reduces risks, improves productivity.
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace
Box

13. IBM Connections Forums IBM Watson Workspace Conversations
Knowledge Capture and Management
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace

14. Knowledge Capture and Management
Box

15. Improved Task Management
• Use follow up actions and “waiting for” in IBM Verse to manage the tasks
you need to do for others, and what you are waiting for/
• IBM Connections Activities provides an ideal way of tracking shared tasks
with rich text, file attachments and more.
• Entire projects can be managed using an IBM Connections community.
• Create quick to-do lists for sharing with colleagues with Box Notes.
• Run projects from a Connections community using Trilog’s ProjExec
• Manage tasks in Kanban-style with ISW’s Kudos Boards for IBM
Connections
Partner
Ecosystem
IBM
Connections
Box

16. Improved Task Management
• Go from
communication to
action with IBM Verse
and IBM Connections.
IBM Verse & IBM Connections
IBM
Connections
IBM Verse

17. Improved Task Management
IBM Connections Activities
IBM
Connections

18. Improved Task Management
ISW’s Kudos Boards for IBM Connections
https://info.kudosboards.com/
Partner
Ecosystem
IBM
Connections

19. Improved Task Management
Partner
Ecosystem
Trilog ProjExec for IBM Connections
http://www.triloggroup.com/projexec-for-connections/
Box Notes
IBM
Connections
Box

20. Working with People Outside the Organisation
• Create communities for key customers and suppliers to share knowledge,
documents and progress.
• Establish new-hires communities to orient them faster into your organization.
• Create alumni communities for people who leave to keep in touch with them.
• Share files with password-protected or completely public links.
• Involve customers in conversational support with cognitive functions.
• Increase transparency, increase loyalty and customer retention.
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace
Box

21. Working with People Outside the Organisation
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace

22. Working with People Outside the Organisation
IBM
Connections

23. Working with People Outside the Organisation
Sharing files externally with Box
Box

24. Social Learning
• Present learning materials in a logical order through community wikis.
• Utilise video streaming capabilities of Box to present compelling instruction
videos.
• Make the most of community surveys to capture learning outcome checks.
• Integrate forums or conversations to connect the learner with the presenter
for further engagement.
IBM
Connections
Watson
Workspace
Box

25. Social Learning
IBM
Connections

26. Social Learning
Watson
Workspace
IBM
Connections

27. Driving Innovation
Partner
Ecosystem
• Innovation can be an ongoing process, rather than a point-in-time
activity.
• Ideas can be created and developed through comments and revised.
• Users can vote for the ideas they like to indicate the popularity of an
idea.
• Ideas can “graduate” from the ideation blog into an activity in order to
become a project.
IBM
Connections

28. Driving Innovation
IBM
Connections

29. Driving Innovation
https://www.hypeinnovation.com/product/integrations/ibm

30. Improving Quality
• Documentation can be moved from files to wiki pages to ease re-
use, revision and publishing.
• Users can subscribe to individual sections to always be up to date
with the latest documentation.
• Activities can be used to define processes and then saved as
templates for quick re-use and standardization.
• Automate workflows for document routing with Box Relay.
IBM
Connections
Box

31. Improving Quality
IBM
Connections

32. Improving Quality
Box Relay