Antoine Perdaens, CEOhttp://twitter.com/tlg

www.knowledgeplaza.net

Migrate to SaaS

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Knowledge Plaza ?

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Since 2008

a team of 15

M A G A Z I N E

Prix de l’innovationKnowledge

Management2010

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Web Sites

Contacts

Documents

E-Mails ...

Share

Organize

Contextualize

Distribute

Delivered as a Service4

Using the enterprise Network5

From 2009 to 2011

40+ clients .fr, .be, .us, .uk, .de, .nl

R&D, Innovation, Knowledge Management, Veille, ...

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Knowledge PlazaMigrate to SaaS, an example with Lafarge

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KM at Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete

20 Knowledge Managers

200 Experts 10.000 Consumers

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what was wrong

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Old interface with lotus notes10

No proper search engine11

Not collaborative, no ratings, comments, ...12

Upgrade: High budget, long delay

2 Years

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“I need tags, commentsand a proper search,I saw you on wikipedia,

can you do that ?”“Sure, let’s do

a pilot!”

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3 months pilotin one click!

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Multi-tenant

same code for allpublic/private cloudfast deployment

...

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3 months to validate the techno

compatibilitybandwidthintegration

VS

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3 months to sell internally

budgetIT departmentusers

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3 months to draft specifications

configurationintegrationimport

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3 months integrationand import

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single sign onportal integrationlocate the existingconfiguration

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important for adoption

ease of administration

try to use standards :

- SAML 2.0

- Google Auth

Single Sign On22

important for adoption

use APIs

integrate where your users are

Integration23

extract existing info

import

start with content

Import the existing24

Configuration vs. Customization

90% configuration

10%customization

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IT involvement

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Security

security requirements

backup policy

security audits (certification)

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Reversibility

ownership of data

extract content

test reversibility

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some of thebenefits

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only payfor what you use

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Cheaper Infrastructure

multi-tenantsame code for allpublic/private cloud

...

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Business independence over IT32

Any Time, AnyWhere, Any Device33

Antoine Perdaens, CEOhttp://twitter.com/tlg

www.knowledgeplaza.net

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