Bring collaborative innovation to your social business platform, with HYPE’s integration for IBM Connections. You can run idea campaigns in Connections and import ideas from your innovation blog into your HYPE platform for further evaluation, elaboration and implementation. Progress updates and new comments for imported ideas, as well as the latest campaign statistics, will be published in your activity stream in IBM Connections, providing you with a seamless integration of an existing collaboration platform into your innovation management system.

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• Functional details

  • Campaign-based ideation in IBM Connections
  • Information transfer from HYPE such as campaign picture, description, audience selection, diagrams
  • One-click import of Ideation Blog ideas to HYPE including votes, comments, and visits by your community
  • Support for IBM Connections’ Activity Stream
  • A new statistics widget to IBM communities including campaign information such as start and closing dates, campaign sponsor details, and campaign statistics
  • IBM Connections Explorer in HYPE to review campaigns and import ideas
  • Option to map existing communities in IBM Connections to existing campaigns in HYPE

• Business problem

  IBM Connections is a social business solution that engages and motivates employees - but it does not offer a structured way to manage valuable input that can be turned into ideas and concepts which solve business problems. By adding HYPE for IBM Connections, companies can provide an innovation management structure to the contributions in IBM Connections.

• Business opportunity

  Innovation is a leading topic for organizations today. By focusing employees on the key problems to address, companies can innovate faster and with more certainty. Social business applications like IBM Connections enable users to collaborate and communicate in a fast and efficient way, but the tools do not have the structure and workflow in place to handle ideas, and turn them into real business value. HYPE Innovation specializes in turning the power of communities into real business value. With HYPE for IBM Connections you can leverage the social engagement, focus it towards strategic business goals, and use the HYPE Platform to develop the results into concepts and projects that can be implemented. HYPE and IBM Connections allows you to combine the best of social business and innovation management.

• Return on investment

  By focusing on strategically aligned campaigns, users can be engaged in solving real business problems, producing ideas to solve key problems. Typically after running several campaigns, a company will see a return on investment. Firstly employees will be engaged and motivated to help overcome important challenges, and secondly, the ideas that are produced result in implementable solutions, which can range from new product development, to cost saving, to process improvements. These opportunities typically result in large return on investment figures.

• Competitive advantage

  IBM Connections allows submission of ideas by using its ideation blog. Implementing ideas costs money and time. As any company's resources are limited, you need to select the right ideas for your investment. "HYPE for IBM Connections" adds HYPE's best practice of an evaluation process which allows the innovation manager to carefully rate and select the submitted ideas. On top of this, the integration with HYPE enriches the idea submission phase by HYPE's best practices of innovation management.

• Industries

  Computer Services Industry
     Prepackaged Software
  Professional Services Industry
     Business Services
     Management Consulting
  

• Solution areas

  Cross industry
     Human Capital Management
        Knowledge & Collaboration
  

• Customer size

  Very Small Business (Less than 50 employees)
  Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
  Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
  Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
  Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
  

• Languages supported

  Arabic
  English
  French
  German
  Spanish; Castilian
  

• Countries/regions available for distribution

  Africa

  Algeria , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Bouvet Island , Burkina Faso , Burundi , Cameroon , Cape Verde , Central African Republic , Chad , Comoros , Congo , Congo, The Democratic Republic of the , Côte d'Ivoire , Djibouti , Equatorial Guinea , Eritrea , Ethiopia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea-Bissau , Kenya , Lesotho , Liberia , Madagascar , Malawi , Mali , Mauritania , Mauritius , Mayotte , Morocco , Mozambique , Namibia , Niger , Nigeria , Rwanda , Réunion , Senegal , Seychelles , Sierra Leone , Somalia , South Africa , Swaziland , São Tome and Principe , Tanzania, United Republic of , Togo , Tunisia , Uganda , Western Sahara , Zambia , Zimbabwe

  Americas

  Anguilla , Antigua and Barbuda , Argentina , Aruba , Bahamas , Barbados , Belize , Bermuda , Bolivia , Brazil , Canada , Cayman Islands , Chile , Colombia , Costa Rica , Dominica , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Falkland Islands (Malvinas) , French Guiana , Greenland , Grenada , Guadeloupe , Guatemala , Guyana , Haiti , Honduras , Jamaica , Martinique , Mexico , Montserrat , Netherlands Antilles , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , Puerto Rico , Saint Kitts and Nevis , Saint Lucia , Saint Pierre and Miquelon , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands , Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , Turks and Caicos Islands , United States , Uruguay , Venezuela , Virgin Islands, British , Virgin Islands, U.S.

  Asia Pacific

  American Samoa , Australia , Azerbaijan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , British Indian Ocean Territory , Brunei Darussalam , Cambodia , China , Christmas Island , Cocos (Keeling) Islands , Cook Islands , Fiji , French Polynesia , Guam , Hong Kong S.A.R. of China , India , Indonesia , Japan , Kazakhstan , Kiribati , Korea, Republic of , Kyrgyzstan , Lao People's Democratic Republic , Macao S.A.R. of China , Malaysia , Marshall Islands , Micronesia, Federated States of , Mongolia , Myanmar , Nepal , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Norfolk Island , Northern Mariana Islands , Palau , Papua New Guinea , Philippines , Samoa , Singapore , Sri Lanka , Taiwan , Tajikistan , Thailand , Timor-Leste , Turkmenistan , Viet Nam

  Europe

  Åland Islands , Albania , Andorra , Armenia , Austria , Belarus , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Faroe Islands , Finland , France , Georgia , Germany , Gibraltar , Greece , Holy See (Vatican City State) , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of , Malta , Moldova, Republic of , Monaco , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russian Federation , San Marino , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Svalbard and Jan Mayen , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , Ukraine , United Kingdom , Uzbekistan

  Middle East

  Afghanistan , Bahrain , Egypt , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Oman , Pakistan , Palestinian Territory, Occupied , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates , Yemen

  Other

  Antarctica , French Southern Territories , Heard Island and McDonald Islands , Maldives , Nauru , Niue , Pitcairn , Saint Helena , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , United States Minor Outlying Islands , Vanuatu , Wallis and Futuna

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• Hardware/OS platforms

  Windows Server 2003 (inclusive)
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
     Dell servers
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  Windows Server 2008 (inclusive)
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  

• Services

  Infrastructure Solutions: Collaboration