New social media platform to boost learning

IT services company, Sogeti has implemented a Social Media platform to boost collaboration across 20,000 people spread across 200 offices in 14 countries including Ireland.

The new service called TeamPark uses social networking tools to share knowledge and collaborate virtually around technology, services and clients. TeamPark provides tools such as personal profile, communities, blogs, wikis, discussion forums, file share, bookmarks and activities.

'We have adapted social media techniques to make it even easier to access skills and advice which an organisation of 20,000 people possesses,' commented Declan Kavanagh, CEO, Sogeti Ireland. 'It is a process which allows a large organisation to harness the benefits of "crowd sourcing" amongst its employees across countries and disciplines.'

TeamPark enables all Sogeti employees to find and connect to the right person within the Group, wherever their location, against parameters such as work experience, interests and professional position.

Michiel Boreel, Chief Technical Officer at Sogeti Group, commented: 'This is the dawn of a new beginning. We are building a future Sogeti in which collaboration and social networking are key for delivering client solutions faster, connecting the right people wherever they are, and making Sogeti a more attractive employer. Innovation and passion for technology will thrive and grow on TeamPark, a collaboration platform that has been developed to meet the needs of our people.'

The work around the new collaboration platform has been based on the Sogeti TeamPark® approach especially created to manage client projects of collaboration platform implementation. The platform is based on IBM Lotus Connection 2.5 social networking platform, Microsoft Office Communicator and Microsoft Intelligent Application Gateway, and will also integrate with several Microsoft SharePoint instances.

'Our people are our most valuable asset. As a multinational company with 20,000 employees dispersed, from India to the US, we needed a powerful tool to connect our people and provide them with a social platform to share information and collaborate,' added Luc-François Salvador, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Sogeti Group. 'We believe that this is the future of collaboration and we are pleased to be at the forefront of this new trend.'