What Is Qontext?

What is Qontext?

Jay Pullur

Ground up thinking on Collaboration 

environment for enterprises, influenced by 

Web 2.0 and Social Networks.

Focused on business­related conversations, 

with sharing as a natural part of working.

Simple tools that integrate with common 

business applications, reducing email 

overload and productivity loss.

Security, visibility controls that are practical 

for corporate use.

An Enterprise 2.0 product.

Pronounced: Context

Web 2.0 Value creators are useful in an Enterprise as well

1.Discovery and networking

2.User generated content

3.Sharing and conversations

4.Incremental value addition

5.Heightened participation

More Conversations.More Participation.

Web 2.0 means

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Productivity

Innovation

Knowledge retention

Induction of people

Agility

Efficiency

Timely action

Transparency

Compliance

Adaptability

Team spirit

More Conversations.More Participation.Enterprise Ready.

Enterprise 2.0

There are numerous benefits, when designed with

Corporate needs and environment in mind

Business Applications provide triggers (context) for business­related conversations

CRM

SCM

ERP

Context Triggers Conversation

Social Network

When Enterprise Social

Network works

independent of other

business applications,

email continues to be the

choice for conversations.

The conversations on the

Social Network would then

be mostly around generic

topics, limiting the value

they bring to the

organization.

Conversation leads to Collaboration

Business objects in applications are triggers for productive

conversation

CRM

SCM

ERP

Qontext brings Contextual Collaboration

All Conversation streams flow into the social network

When anchored at point of origin,

contextually relevant

conversations can be recalled for

future use

Qontext Social Tools are single­click accessible inside applications; easier than switching to Email

PO 1243578 Contextual Creation

b. Do it now. Don’t miss out

a. Cost of switching work context eliminated

Big Benefit #1

Productivity loss due to context switching is substantial and avoidable

Delayed conversation may never start. Missed conversations can be costly.

you got mail!“let me send mail”

“What’s this one?”

“There’s a doc!”

“ok! Done.”

c. Inbox breaks are expensive Spam. Mailers. Newsletters. Friend

requests. Many things could consume quality time

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Customer ­ ABC, Inc.

Contextual Recall

b. Leads to Emergent collaborations

a. Reduces time wasted digging

Big Benefit #2

What is relevant is right on the page, not in somebody’s inbox

Knowing what transpired earlier, helps decision making and correcting inconsistency in knowledge

2. Comments3. Context

4. Metrics

Variety of tools to create

Blogs, Wikis, Forums, PictureVideos, Slides, Bookmarks,..

Easy and open to participation

Freshness (last view or comment)Usefulness (Like/Dislike, Rate)

Popularity (favorites, #comments)

Many more

Who, when, where

Tags (pertains to)

Conversations over Shared content

Enriched by participation

1. Content

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1. Page Visitors

2. Invitees Only

3. Companywide

Anyone who can see PO 1243578 can see this conversation

Limit visibility of this conversation to those explicitly invited

This conversation can be opened to company­wide audience

Easy controls to define exposure of Conversations

Qontext makes use of access rights already defined in business apps

Designed to fit Corporate interaction models

Department/Team

Guests

Internal Group

Corporate Community

Customer

Partner

Guests

(by invitation)

(limited access)

Guest OK Group

Context CollaborationConversation

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