external and internal collaboration made easy and secure
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collaboration acrossyour business
ecosystem.
Your Company
WHY&WHAT
No Business CanSucceed, Or Even
Exist, In A Vacuum.
B2B Communication& Collaboration are
Mission Critical.
And Yet...
The Evolution OfCommunication Technology
Has Only Been Able To Take Inter-Company Collaboration
So Far...
INTEROPERABILITY WAS INEVITABELL
2 units, one wire
Centralized local hubs of upto 50 subscribers. They were'party lines' and all could heareveryone else's calls
First
Then You could buy from closed hub networkor a company that connected your callswith anyone nation-wide.
Competing Networks
Mesh ModelNetwork of Networks
Model
THE VOICE INTEGRATION LAYER
The Telephone Revolution
1
EMAIL IS THECURRENT DIGITAL
INTEGRATIONLAYER
The Email Revolution
Email is everywhere1
It's simpleto use
2
It's free,almost
3
CUTTING ACROSS INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
BUSINESS SILOS
For all they have to offer, Telephone and Emailcan only provide dispersed, out-of-context
communications and data.
But in the enterprise, everything we do has tobe always "within context", some context.
And yet...
94%still use phone, email &
Fax as their mostcommon B2B Solution,
even in tightlyinterdependent business
networks like supplychain ecosystems.
"My company does
Collaboration needs"
62%89% 63% 71%
"My company does
not get enough
support for its
External
Collaboration needs"62%
"ExternalCollaboration is'crucial' or 'very
important' for mybusiness"
63%
"InternalCollaboration is'crucial' for my
business"
89%
"A formalcollaboration
system is a vitalpiece of
infrastructurethese days"
ContentCollaboration andProcessing 2014Research
Association for Information andImage Management
Most are one or two-feature apps. This forces
companies to implement acomplex cloud cocktail.
But more importantly...
So, Are Current Online"Collaboration" Apps
The In-Context Solution?
Most were designed and optimized for'Teamwork'. It's just easier to build silos.
My account as Internal User
of my Company
My other user asa vendor withinMarketing4U's
Account
My Company's Account
My Client's Account
Even if both companies usethe same app, their data is
totally disconnected and outof context.
"Workspace": The Sharepoint Approach
Back to the 1879 party linesIf you're invited to a project, we all see you
Their focus on 'teamwork' also jeopardizes securityin B2B work engagements.
B2B inter-company solutions should provide anaffordable and easy-to-implement merging of yourSystems of Engagement and Systems of Record.
They should also be as efficient as currentconsumer social networks and as secure as the
enterprise requires.
Welcome To FLOWFICIENCY!
Knowledge-centered businesses, teams and professionalsthat are aware of their need for a formal method tocoordinate, document and analyze their work with vendorsand clients.
Relying on email, phone calls, and IM as their main systemof internal and external engagement as these integrationlayers can only provide dispersed, out-of-context data thatis hard to integrate with their systems of record.
Powerful network of networks collaboration infrastructure
Efficiently interconnect their operations to their businessnetworks ecosystem through an affordable and easy toimplement SaaS online web interface (bCommunities.com)and/or our Ecosystem as a Service platform and API.
Current collaboration online apps designed for teammanagement through, often, limited capabilities and one-to-many, siloed productivity hubs.
MOSTHELPFUL TO
WHO JUSTCAN'T KEEP
OUR
ENABLESTHEM TO
UNLIKE
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In bCommunities, I keepmy identity in all my
engagements internally orexternally.
My Client's Account
My Company's Account
Your Clients
Investors
Their Own Clients
YOUR ORGANIZATION
Vendors
Partners
bCommunitiesCollaboration Model
All Premium Users
Mix of Premium & Free Users
All Free Users
Each organization or professional you workwith has their own account. Some onlyinterface with your employees by respondingfrom their email client to your bCommunitiesnotifications and messages.
Others will adopt a Premium account oncethey see the value for their organization.
InterconnectedInterconnectedClient & Vendor Client & Vendor
Order PortalsOrder Portals
IntegratedIntegratedEmail &Email &
MicroblogMicroblog
WorkflowAutomation
Document Document ManagementManagement& Delivery& Delivery
InterconnectedProject
Management
CRMCRM
VendorManagement
SmartDocsQuotesInvoicesSignoffs
Your Own
ReportingReporting
VideoConference
& IM
InvoicePayments
Ecosystem as a
Service
Powerful
Interconnected
Affordable
Easy
Scalable
AdaptableAPI
Connectivity To Other
SaaS
Web Widgets& Plugins
IntegratedFeatures
Stay in control throughout your day Customizable Dashboard
InterconnectedProject
Management
InterconnectedProject
Management
But his last, quick email check shows an unwelcome turnof events. Matt must request 300MB-worth of audio filesfrom a vendor in Melbourne and turn it in to his client in
Atlanta within the next seven hours.
Matt sets it all up and leaves the officeright on schedule. The next day, he sees amessage from the client thanking him forhis hard work.
How did he pull that off?
It's 5PM on a Friday, and Matt is about to shutdown and head out for the weekend.
WorkflowAutomation
Your client and vendor can't know the other even exists.
The solution must be affordable for you and free for bothof them.
Neither of them are familiar with the technology.
It must leave an audit trail for the three parties in theirown secured environment and on their emails, includingreplies.
You cannot train your client at all on how to use it.
Instructions to your vendor MUST fit in a single Tweet.
How would YOU do it if...?
So, how did Matt do it?
WorkflowAutomation
First Matt created an external LightEdition (free) account for his clientAll he needed was his contact's email address.
If your client does not have an account inbCommunities, we'll create one that's freeforever for their organization to work withyours.
#1
WorkflowAutomation
FLOWFICIENCY 101Interconnected Productivity
Then created his project
Assigned a task to his vendor
He could have created a Flowback Project andfirst task by choosing his client as the owner ofthe project. In this case he started a regularproject.
With a click of a button he created a newaccount for the vendor and he assigned him tothe first task in the project. The vendor got afirst email just like the client did.
#2
#3
WorkflowAutomation
#4
Then created a dependent task
WorkflowAutomation
Dependent tasks start when the previous task iscompleted (unless owner set auto-reschedulingoff for it). An Activation email notification is sentto the resource and project manager.
Source files from predecesorHe assigns the new task called "Download the files" to hisclient. Matt instructs the client through the task to pickup the files from the task Activation email.
#5TASK A DELIVERED
The task activation notification is sent automatically assoon as the previous task resource uploads his files to theDeliverables section and Completes the task.
None of them saw each other because they were notsharing tasks at all.
Matt was sound asleep as all this was happening.
TASK B ACTIVATED
WorkflowAutomation
Soon, you'll also click a button next to anydocument to send out for signature.
You'll then see your signed file appear herefor future reference of all parties in the task.
Create Your Own SmartDocs
ReportingReporting
Query and create your own reports on all project, task and document variables,including financial data.
Download all your Projects and Document data to your computer.
Coming up Business Intelligence and Cash Management controls and dashboard.
VendorManagement
CRMCRM
CommunicationsAdministrators gain instant accessand search capabilities over allcommunications in theirorganization. No more diggingthrough email silos!
One-click access to taskstatus, files and otherrelated conversations.
IntegratedIntegratedEmailEmail
IntegratedIntegratedEmailEmail
All email notifications and replies areautomatically indexed with a Project and TaskID and stored within the task at the app foreasy access and future reference.
SaaS Fremium
Just like the telephone interface evolved over time,bCommunities.com will add mission-critical elements tothe needs of value networks' interactions.
Just getting started. Join the interoperability journey.
Our Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering also allows integratorsand organizations to grow their clients' and their business by...
- Developing their own app interfaces on top our ecosystem enablementplatform.
- Integrating bCommunities with their current systems.
- Creating white label solutions for their own verticals.- Interfacing bCommunities with other cloud solutions through APIs.
Email, telephone and IM will never go away in the enterprise, but theirmain current role as the integration layer for inter-companycommunication will be replaced by interconnected business networkinfrastructures.
These early technologies will become auxiliary to the new platformsand contextualized by them. But this will only happen if the newinterconnected tools can offer frictionless distribution, are affordable toall and are easy to adopt.
Just like the early siloed telephone hubs quickly became obsolete withthe emergence of switchboard-enabled networks, the current onlinecollaboration tools will be replaced by the next evolutionary level ofefficiency: interconnectivity.
The inevitable appearance and rise of these ecosystem-level platformswill render current collaboration app incumbents irrelevant or willforce them to produce duct-tape adaptations to their core software,database and interfaces.
They Way We See B2B Collaboration's Future
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