Social Knowledge Management: VEDALIS Launches a Solution for SMEs

As the common denominator of all companies, regardless of size, the quest is for performance and lasting competitiveness, VEDALIS is making its AKHâ„¢ software available to small and medium sized companies (SMEs) within the framework of a pre-packaged offering. This innovative appliance is used to structure and energize the talent network of a company as well as capitalizing and valorizing its knowledge base.

Aix en Provence, France, October 29, 2010 --(PR.com)-- VEDALIS announces its new Agora Knowledge Hub™ appliance available for SMEs with the support of IBM’s distributor Frame…

As the common denominator of all companies, regardless of size, the quest is for performance and lasting competitiveness, VEDALIS is making its AKH™ software available to small and medium sized companies (SMEs) within the framework of a pre-packaged offering. This innovative appliance is used to structure and energize the talent network of a company as well as capitalizing and valorizing its knowledge base.

Particularly efficient for multi-site companies, the AKH™ software obtains tangible benefits for its users. The solution is particularly powerful in identifying a company’s key talents ; Consultants, Knowledge experts as well as collecting “value-added” knowledge for the company, which results in:

- Time Saving,
- Gain in productivity,
- Increase in dashboard control and traceability.

AKH™ organizes an ecosystem around the critical knowledge of a company and combines key people in order to ensure sustainable and long term competitiveness.

Easy to install and use, the VEDALIS solution integrates AKH™ software and IBM technology. It can be used in three ways:

1. SaaS mode,
2. installable on the companies server,
3. as a turnkey appliance.

This strategic collaboration with Frame and IBM allows VEDALIS to strengthen the presence of its solution as it enters the SME marketplace. Frame provides the IBM technology for this appliance which offers knowledge management and company social networking all rolled into one box.

This solution is easily integrated into the companies’ information system(s) and at the same time completes the companies’ portfolio of collaborative applications and intra/extranet tools.

For Jean-Pierre Descamps, IBM Business Development Manager at Frame, "In our growing IT world the need to share knowledge and access a companies 'know-how' is becoming critical. However this reality is not apparent until the requirement becomes urgent; it is then too late! Today this demand is accentuated by the complexity of technology, economic crisis, lack of 'know-how', change in organization and the quest for performance and reactivity. This is why, beyond the purely based business consideration we are pleased to participate in the launch of the AKH™ appliance which integrates IBM technologies and at the same time makes it possible to tap into the intellectual wealth of SMEs’: the key to future competitiveness."

For Didier Plegat, VEDALIS CEO, "Corporate companies are not the only ones rising to the various challenges of competition via 'know-how' or knowledge. On the contrary! The success of many SMEs depends on their rare and sometimes unique 'know-how'. This is even more true in a context where skills are often concentrated in the hands of a few and where the company has few resources and little breathing space. This is the key reason why VEDALIS designed a solution in collaboration with Frame and IBM which enables SMEs to obtain the latest professional Internet breakthroughs with an efficient and user friendly appliance. This innovative offering becomes profitable as soon as the limits of classical email are reached: i.e. when the company needs to structure a network of more than 20 people around key topics."

Concerning Vedalis: VEDALIS is the specialist of Social Knowledge Management.

It’s AKH™ secured 100% web technology is the first software to attain synergy between social networking 2.0 tools and knowledge management tools.

It enables companies to increase performance and competitiveness while developing the loyalty of the companies’ key experts: those who hold the knowledge capital of the organization, who produce and apply best practices and are involved in most of the decision making.

Vedalis’ solutions are particularly efficient because they create veritable work spaces dedicated to professional networks sharing common concerns: manager/expert networks, project teams, etc.

The advantages are numerous:

· gaining time and productivity,
· countering the pernicious effect of information overload (infobesity),
· reducing the costs of unproductive information seeking,
· stimulating creativity and sharing of best practices,
· making the most of knowledge, experience and the feedback loop,
· providing easier coordination and guidance of individual efforts.

User friendly, adaptable and easily implemented, the Vedalis’ solution offers 360° vision over the whole of a company’s knowledge base.

Delivered in SaaS mode or installable on a client server an AKH™ platform brings together services offered by knowledge bases and enriches them with 2.0 web functionalities and with social networks.

To succeed in their projects VEDALIS can also accompany its clients throughout the process – from feasibility study to implementation – alone, or with technical or consulting partners such as IBM.

For More information, please visit: www.vedalis.com

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