Spotlight > In the Flow of Employees' Daily Work
A critical consideration for any software initiative is whether users will adopt the technology. Significant benefits are never realized if employees find it hard to turn to the application because it is outside of their daily workflow and habits.
Connectbeam simplifies this and increases adoption by exposing workstreams and information whenever employees need it and wherever they turn to look for it.
Delivering Information Where Users Work
Right from the beginnings of Connectbeam, we have continuously looked at ways of making it easier for end users to interact with Connectbeam application to derive maximum output. With each release we extend our reach into delivering this rich information to users wherever they are and via tools and applications that they are already familiar with and use on a daily basis
- Inside your Email
- Inside your Company Portal
- While searching the Web (Internet Search)
- While searching inside the company (Intranet Search)
- Custom Applications
Spotlight Connectors
Spotlight out-of-the-box Connectors provide integration with several leading corporate enterprise and Enterprise 2.0 applications.
Spotlight Connect for Sharepoint - Spotlight Connect for Sharepoint includes several Sharepoint Webparts. Spotlight user's profile and the related social networking information can be merged into Sharepoint's MySite profile. In addition, Spotlight Social Search feature can be added to Sharepoint's native search. Searches within Microsoft Sharepoint will include all related content, users, groups and tags from the Spotlight Central Workstream Repository TM. Users can also tag Sharepoint search results and documents.
Spotlight Connect for Outlook - Spotlight Connect for Outlook makes users' Social Profiles directly accessible from within Microsoft Outlook. When you receive an email from anyone inside your company, you can see at a glance their recent activities and social networking summary.
Spotlight Connect for Google Search Appliance (GSA and Mini) - Spotlight Connect for Google GSA uses Google's GSA OneBox framework to deliver Spotlights social search results right along side GSA search results. This greatly enhances the quality of GSA search results by adding the 'human relevancy' to the search results. Right alongside GSA search results you see relevant bookmarks, related users and tags for your search query.
Spotlight Connect for Confluence - Atlassian's Confluence is one of the leading wiki on the market. Spotlight Connect for Confluence automatically captures references to enteries in the Confluence wiki (workspaces, pages, labels, users) and aggregates that information with the rest of the information that has been gathered by users across the Intranet and Internet. This collective information is then made available for search and discovery.
Spotlight APIs - Spotlight APIs are a rich set of bi-directional REST based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Any third party application can interact with Spotlight using Spotlight APIs.
