The reality is that e-mail still dominates most of the collaboration that takes place in the Enterprise. Don't blame e-mail. The blame should be on the shoulders of collaboration vendors that have not come up with something that truly provides the user with a better alternative. SimplyBox changes enterprise communications by merging ease of use with a decentralized approach to collaboration.
During a regular day, users in the Enterprise interact with multiple Enterprise systems, e.g. HR, ERP, CRM, Portals, Dashboards, Reports. Most of these systems provide virtually no collaboration mechanisms. So, when it is time to collaborate, users go to e-mail or to a centralized collaboration application. And as they move to collaborate somewhere else, they lose the context the systems they are interacting with provide. The result: collaboration without context, which equals to slower and less effective collaboration.
SimplyBox empowers the user to communicate impulsively, anywhere. Allowing them to collaborate from within the multiple systems they interact with daily. Putting communication in context.
How It Works
SimplyBox's "Boxes" are key to enabling decentralized contextual collaboration. A "Box" includes conversations and content about a topic. And a box can be shared with as many people as needed. SimplyBox users tend to have multiple boxes, about different topics, and shared with different groups. SimplyBox 2.0 allows users to place boxes on top of pages of Enterprise systems.
A user will have some boxes on top of ERP, others on top of a Portal or a Report, and so on. And as they place these boxes on top of these systems they are bringing content and collaboration within the context of the different systems they are interacting with. And as they re-visit these systems, their boxes and their content will be there available to enable collaboration.
Why Users Prefer SimplyBox
Fast: SimplyBox 2.0 does not require the user to be in a box or inside SimplyBox in order to craft a comment, reply to a comment or an alert. It can be done on the fly.
Simple to Organize/Find: boxes virtually automate the process of organizing discussions, also making it easier to find information later.
"My Content": SimplyBox 2.0 gives the user a way to visually capture unstructured content from the web or any application and to put it into boxes (files can also be uploaded in to boxes). Users now can have "their content" available to them as they interact with different systems in the Enterprise.
User Driven: the placing of boxes on top of different Enterprise applications is done by the user. It involves no programming nor IT involvement.
Easy to Use: the visual nature of SimplyBox and the simplicity of its design make SimplyBox 2.0 an extremely simple solution to get started with.
Key Differentiators Vs. Other Collaboration Solutions
E-mail:
- Not contextual
- Difficult and slow to craft, organize, and find messages
- Disjointed conversations
Instant Messaging:
- Not contextual
- No ability to bring content
- Sessions are temporary and synchronous
Enterprise Collaboration Solutions:
- Forced centralized collaboration - yet one more silo for users to deal with
- No ability to handle unstructured content
- Collaboration with limited context
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