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Walter Ebeling
Product Group Lead Warehousing Solutions at Kühne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG
We did pilot SharePoint and moved to Connections due to licensing costs, lack of features and the bad reputation of SharePoint in our market.
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Web Project Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Our use of IBM Connections is a case of, it’s better to be lucky than good. I do not believe we did any requirement-gathering from the business end or evaluation of other IT products.
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Hasnain Zahid
Talent acquisition & development specialist at Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS)
My company has experience with IBM for more than twenty-six years. My company is a gold partner for IBM. My company has partnerships with 150 companies, and we sell their products and services while also using marketing materials. In our company, we do some marketing, email marketing, and social media marketing with the products from the companies we currently partner with.
I haven't used IBM Watson Discovery much, and I have more experience with QRadar. My company's AI team has used IBM Watson Discovery to create some chatbots.
I use IBM's digital marketing portal in HCL Connections for email marketing, social media marketing, webinars, and arranging the configuration files. I use the solution's marketing materials and marketing collateral.
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Analyst/Programmer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We didn't have anything previously. We consulted with our user base, and they asked for it. It was a long, drawn-out evaluation, and that's what we ended up with.
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Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
We have not used another solution.
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Rajesh Ravella
Senior Analyst - Messaging & Mobility at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
Initially, we were on-premises IBM Domino customers. We then migrated to IBM Connections Cloud.
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Director of technology at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We needed some collaborative software and space, and IBM is our shop. So, you know what they say, “even our blood is blue”; everything's IBM. Apparently, it didn't make it all the way, so we actually are moving to Microsoft.
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Systems admin at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have any on-premise solutions, so the cloud version was the beginning.
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Web Development Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
When we got our portal, we figured out that we really needed to supplement it with more of a community type of layout and empower the business units a little bit more. Every department didn't need a department page, but we had so many other smaller departments that needed a way to communicate and collaborate with each other.
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Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were looking for a KM platform that was easier to use and included social collaboration.
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Enterprise Social Network Community Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We had tested Yammer before introducing seriously an enterprise social collaboration platform. We preferred IBM Connections because we saw in it the greatest potential in managing different types of communications to pursue different purposes over time.
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Andre Horak
Social Business Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
IBM Connections has replaced a variety of solutions, including File Shares (shared drives), the company intranet, and the corporate directory. IT also reduced the need for various custom-developed ad-hoc solutions due to its rich set of features.
IBM Connections provides a single solution that offers profiles, communities, file sharing, wikis, blogs, surveys, activities, bookmarks, forums, ideation, activity streams and events. The product is mature, has a very strong business focus, and can be integrated with other business solutions.
Using IBM Connections and all the capabilities it offers, provides users with a single place to go for all their collaboration and knowledge sharing requirements.
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Roland Driesen
Project Manager | Business Consultant | Learning & Development | Managing Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We were using the cloud version, SmartCloud, but we shifted to on-premises to integrate and extend it more.
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Director of Digital and Mobile Strategy at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Prior to Connections, we did not have an enterprise social network solution.
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Senior Manager of Network at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
We tested Yammer for half a year. We switched into IBM Connections mostly because of Connections’ features:
- Own server
- server proxy
- Privacy access layer
- Recommendations and comments function
- Idea management functions, such as monitors channels for idea capture, customer categorization of requests, idea voting, classified idea capture, and request status notes.
- Each file entered into the system has a label with time and person who uploaded the file
- Document download is registered and visible to the system users: Who downloaded the file and when it was downloaded.
- After updating the document, a new version is created, but previous versions are not deleted.
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Head of Crewing, HR shore, Staff and Support at Seatrans ship management as
We knew we needed to invest in a new solution because we got advice from our business partner and from IBM that opened up our eyes to see the options out there.
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It architect for collaboration and mobile at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had a lot of solutions and what we wanted to do was not invent a new solution or bring a new one in. We wanted to combine the solutions we already had and integrate them into a real social enterprise collaboration platform. That's why we use Connections as kind of an umbrella over all the solutions.
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VIP it and security at Imagining business machines llc
Our CEO is a visionary and he is always looking for a new and better way to do things. When he first saw the Connections product, it was probably about 6-7 years ago. With him, it just sort of clicked, as it was something that he could use in the business to help drive us to that next level with internal collaboration. So, he went ahead and pulled the trigger on it and it's been a slow adoption. A lot of it was trying to get all the other department heads to see the same things that he saw, and that I was able to see.
Now, we're starting to get a lot more traction to it, i.e., once we get each department to solve their specific concern for the system, such as what they're not happy with, which generally turns into what they don't understand and need some additional training on. It's been really good.
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Social Business Consultant at a integrator with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have used both Jive and MS Sharepoint in the past - I find Connections a lot more intuitive and easy to get people using the solution!
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Collaboration Engineer at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
I am not aware of any previous solutions.
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Connections administrator
We didn't previously have anything else. Through marketing material, we saw what the capabilities are. Management had the foresight to recognize, "Okay, this could change the way that we do business or we do work," and it has.
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Technical services supervisor at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For file sharing, we were using Dropbox, which isn't secure, thus we would like to have something different there. With the meeting rooms, like I have mentioned before, the cost of the upgrade and the lack of expertise on the site was the reason we moved to the IBM Connections Cloud.
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Lead Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we also had another wiki solution to manage project documentation for sharing with other teammates. But, we found wikis in IBM Connections can be used in the same way and hence we decided to move out.
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Division Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I did not previously use a different solution.
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Responsable Technique IT at a tech company with 51-200 employees
We used to deploy Backbase Portal and IBM. I advised the selection of this solution.
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IBM QRadar Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We have used SharePoint in the past, but this product (IBM Connections) is much more a total solution out of the box than SharePoint can deliver, so we migrated all our content from SharePoint to IBM Connections.
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System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I did not previously use a different solution.
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SAP Portal Architect/Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our prior tool was the SAP NetWeaver Portal. The interface for IBM Connections is much better and is better suited to support organic growth of content in an easier-to-navigate, user-friendly interface. IBM Connections provides better search capabilities for locating content.
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Digital Workplace & Collaboration Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Previously, we mainly used email, which for collaboration purposes has a lot of disadvantages: It has no structure (personal email folders are not a collaboration tool), it is highly redundant, you neither know the status or the context of a message and finally, it is another silo. Sharing is way more efficient than distributing.
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CTO with 51-200 employees
Previously we used IBM’s TeamRoom. We changed because IBM changed the strategy from TeamRoom to Connections.
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IBM Technical Software Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We were using Lotus Quickr. It was old, slow, and had a very small user base. There was not much potential.
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Process consultant at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were testing on a bunch of solutions. There was one from Microsoft and Oracle. We just found this one to be the most feature-rich and also it fit our organization's needs.
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Social Business Advisor at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Basically, I worked with IBM and the IBM Lotus product for many decades, but I also know Microsoft products, such as SharePoint, etc. I also know many new collaboration tools, but I can assert that the level of integration among the IBM products is unmatched nowadays. They are at a level that other products don't have, even if some products seem to be easier to use or more beautiful to see.
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Sharepoint Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We have never used any other solution before.
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Chief Solutions Architect at a tech consulting company with self employed
I did not previously use a different solution.
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Software Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We used lots of products like wordpress to blog, docuwiki as wiki, bugtracker, todo apps and so on, but Connections delivers all of it integrated in one solution.
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IBM Infrastructure and IBM Escalation at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I am a true IBM enthusiast, so the answer is NO. But I am aware of other products and have seen them. Still, I would choose IBM Connections.
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Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Email, improved efficiency
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Lotus Software Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Previously, we have not used any other solutions.
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