The Digital Revolution has left the world transformed. That’s where the Digital Workplace Hub with the HCL Connections Engagement Center (previously known as XCC – Web Content & Custom Apps Extension for HCL Connections) comes into play. It is the engagement solution of the future, right here, right now. Thanks to our uniquely functional one-platform approach, it unites a company and boosts its efficiency in an unprecedented way. It provides the corporate office, management and workforce with a single user experience for all communications, as well as a state of the art enterprise social collaboration feature and the possibility of adding custom applications. All this runs at the office and on all mobile devices, so the entire workforce – from CEO to intern – can access this most valuable tool regardless of where they are, what their role is or what devices they prefer. It is also available as a Cloud or On-Premise solution.
HCL Connections Engagement Center
Integrate Internal Communication and Custom Applications into HCL Connections
Collaboration is the core of every organization. Collaboration should be at the core of every Intranet. That’s why the Digital Workplace Hub is built upon IBM Connections, the absolute market-leading enterprise social software platform, and the HCL Connections Engagement Center. The Digital Workplace Hub is unique in applying a Single Point of Truth (SPoT) to its inner workings: it has just one user interface and one single content storage for both internal communications and enterprise collaboration. Any solution using more than one content storage foregoes the benefits of a SPoT.
Your advantages with HCL Connections Engagement Center
Working with a SPoT eliminates the need to work with multiple platforms in order to achieve a digital workplace for a company. As such, the IDWH does not suffer from attention fragmentation by employees (who otherwise have to jump from platform to platform to get what they need, wasting time and energy, sometimes even working past each other in parallel systems), nor content fragmentation and overlap, nor redundancy, nor inconsistency. This keeps the entire system as lean and clean as possible. The data stays authentic, relevant and utterly referable whenever needed. Furthermore, a simplified IT means that the right content is written by the right people – the experts and department-employees closest to any given subject matter – and published in all the right places. No more need to ask Internal Communications to do all this, losing time and focus in the process.
The HCL Connections Engagement Center...
- All employees have a crucial reason to visit HCL Connections to access the integrated Internal Communications
- Newbies (and ‘silver surfers’) benefit from structured content
- Newbies discover content faster (even if they do not yet follow other employees or communities)
- Many employees can be involved in maintaining landing pages for business units, service units, locations and projects. Those employees will be strong Connections power users and promoters
- Internal Communications is made social, i.e. its content can be liked and commented (unless commenting is disabled)
- Content publishing, liking and commenting is integrated into the Activity Stream and will be noticed by peers
- Responsibility can be effectively delegated to line of business
- Content masters can not only create and publish content but curate content too (i.e. publish blog entries from employees on landing pages / homepage)
- Avoid content fragmentation, overlap, redundancy, inconsistency and governance problems
- Eliminate the dichotomy between top-down communication and peer-to-peer collaboration and create a truly integrated Social Intranet
- Everything is in one place, employees do not need to choose where to browse and search content
- Communication and Collaboration are either on the same page or available within one click
- High degree of personalization (Region, Location, Department, Branch etc.)
- Excellent Mobile Experience (integrated in Android and iOS Apps and responsive layout)
- Creating content is really easy, no technical training required (i.e. management compatible)
- Everything is in one place: authors do not need to choose between two systems to publish their content
- No search integration required (all content is within one index)
- Read Access Management is given thru Communities, no project required
- Single Sign On for CMS & Connections is given
- Activity Stream and UI Integration are given, no project required
- Personalization is really easy, no technical project required
- Selection
- Purchase
- Implementation
- Integration
- Training and
- Running
- another Web CMS or Intranet platform besides IBM Connections
- With the IBM Connections Engagement Center Intranet projects shift focus within hours from technology to content.
- Implementation is done in less then 20 Minutes
- CI adoption is very fast
- Content, navigation and pages can be created fast
- Intuitive page design with drag & drop of widgets
- Fast integration of
- External content (Atom / RSS Feeds, iFrame, Web Clipping)
- Custom widgets
More information and download
Visit our IBM Connections Engagement Center-Community on Greenhouse for more information and for download and testing.
Social Intranet based on HCL Connections & HCL Connections Engagement Center – INTRODUCTION
Social Intranet based on HCL Connections & HCL Connections Engagement Center - A TRULY INTEGRATED USER INTERFACE
Social Intranet based on HCL Connections & HCL Connections Engagement Center – AN EXAMPLE
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Would you like to know more about integrating FEB based applications into the HCL Connections Engagement Center (previously known as XCC)?
HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka XCC) Enablement Webcast Part I: Implementing the HCL Connections Engagement Center, 2017 03 17
HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka XCC) Enablement Webcast Part II: How to Customize the HCL Connections Engagement Center, 2017 03 24
HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka XCC) Enablement Webcast Part III: Turn HCL Connections and HCL Connections Engagement Center into an Appealing Hub for Custom and Legacy Apps 20170331
HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka XCC) Enablement Webcast Part IV: The HCL Connections Engagement Center is about people. You need to make it work for them. 2017 04 07
HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka XCC) Enablement Webcast Part V: HCL Connections Engagement Center and Rapid Application Development with the Forms Experience Builder
Enrich your Intranet with Custom-Made Applications 2017 04 13
HCL Connections Engagement Center (aka XCC) Enablement Webcast Part VI: Getting Started with the HCL Connections Engagement Center, 2017 04 21
08.2012 Release 1.0
- IBM Connections 3.0
05.2013 Release 2.0 Beta (Limited Availability)
- Connections 4.0
- Activity Stream on Homepage
10.-12.2013 Release 2.0, 2.01 - 2.03 (General Availability)
- Connections 4.0 & 4.5
- Personalization Improvements & Bug fixes
- Performance Increases
- Personalization for Custom Profile Fields
01. & 02.2014 Release 3.0, 3.01 - 3.02
- Improvements & Bug fixes
- New Widgets
- Mobile Grid Layout
03.2014 Release 4.0
- Extended Page Management Capabilities
- UI & Performance Improvements
04. & 05. 2014 Release 4.1 & 4.5
- Atom & RSS Feed Widgets
- List and Overview News Widgets
- People Finder Widget
- Backend & UI Performance
- Breadcrum Path & Navigation
- UI Enhancements
- Multilingualism
08.2014 Release 5.0
- IBM Connections 5 Support
- Ideation-Blog Widget
- Picture Widget
- Import and Export of XCC page
- XCC uses database to store your settings
10.2014 Release 6.0
- Personalized Home Page
- Forum Widget
- People Selector Widget
- Picture Slider in Embedded Experience
- Stand-Alone Blogs and Wikis
12.2014 Release 7.0
- Suggestions Widget
- Profile Completion Widget
- Intranet Preferences Widget
- Popular Content Widget
- Many more…
03.2015 Release 8.0
- XCC for IBM Connections Cloud
- XCC for Communities
- XCC for Anonymous Users
- News Aggregation
- News Slider
- Navigation Widget
- “Saved Search” Widget
- Mobile Apps Improvements
- Files Widget: Search Capability and Hide File Details
- Widget Source Selection Improved
- UI & Performance Improvements
07.2015 Release 9.0
- XCC Cloud for IBM Connections Cloud
- FlyOut Page
- Custom Widgets API
- Client-Side-Caching
- Gallery Widget
- Community Overview Widget
- Profile Tagging Widget
- Profile Picture Widget
- Onboarding Wizard
12.2015 Release 10.0
- Custom Grids
- Access Restrictions for XCC Pages
- Business Cards in XCC Pages
- HTML Widget with Integrated Code Editor
- Direct Edit for Customization Files
- Clipping Widget
- Community Description Widget
- Pinned Files Widget
- My Links Widget
- Tag Cloud Widget
04.2016 Release 11.0
- Enhanced Personalization / Personalization 2.0
- Forms Widget Release 1.0
- Media Gallery Widget with Video Support
- Atom / RSS Widget with Rich Content and Personalization
- XCC Admin Dashboard
- Events Widget 2.0
10.2016 Release 12.0
- Page Templating / Inheritance
- Lock Functionality for Widgets
- Restricted XCC Pages with Community Access
- New Capabilities for IBM Connections Cloud
- Localizable Widget Title
- Full Responsive Layout
05.2017 Release 13.0
- Content Creation with XCC
- Community Members Widget
- My Communities Widget
- Autoplay for News Widgets
- My Quicklinks Widget community selection
- Admin Panel internationalization
- Adminpreview
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