CorasWorks

Your portal is the face to your community. You can have one or many Innovation Portals - for your Intranet, Extranet, and web-facing sites. Each can have the branding and feel to meet your needs. They are flexible so you can put the information and features at the fingertips of users - with just a drag and drop.

Chances are you'll want to capture ideas on multiple business areas and objectives. Set up standing Idea Communities and event-driven Campaigns, Challenges, and Contests. Our communities come with a rich set of collaborative features that can be custom tailored to meet each specific scenario. Users can see all of the activity across communities in their Cim Activity Stream, and via Top 10 Listings and Dashboards.

Post ideas to the Communities and make them as detailed as you'd like. Make your objectives, goals, and important points visible so other community members can quickly sum up what makes your idea special. Your post idea forms can be easily customized per community to capture everything you need for downstream activity.

Now that the ideas are posted, let the community come in and rate, comment, and enhance those ideas. Ideas are ranked using our Star Power feature. Add your comments to the idea or comment on other comments. Turn on Peer Reviews that let you ask specific questions that are scored to support your idea assessment.

Users have access to "Top 10" Listings such as Most Recent and Highest Rated ideas. One click to engage and collaborate. Drop them in your portal or snap them into any sites across SharePoint, such as the Department Portal shown here to provide maximum visibility.

Increase engagement by making it easier and more convenient for users using the Cim Activity Stream. It can be snapped into any SharePoint site. From there, users can contribute, collaborate, see their activity, and see the activity by others on their contributions and on communities and articles they have watched. Make innovation collaboration part of the work people do every day by putting it where they normally "go" to work.

Cim integrates with the social networking capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Users can see the profiles of other collaborators, pop into their My Sites to connect directly, and use Like Its, Notes, and Tags to tie into the enterprise social network.

With our solution, you can have one or more Management Hubs to manage the process of transforming ideas into approved innovations. You may have a simple approval process or implement a highly structured Stage-Gate process. Items are moved forward with customizable actions that automate the workflow and notifications. Our management processes are very configurable and easy, using our industry-leading configuration wizards.

Often you'll find that you want to be able to assign other people or teams to perform tasks to help move ideas forward. Our solution comes with a complete Task Management system that manages the process of assigning, managing, and completing tasks. Further, you can assign tasks to external teams working in remote SharePoint sites, and you can track them all centrally within your Management Hub.

The Management Activity display gives your team of reviewers a way to conduct private, collaborative reviews. It gives reviewers a speedy way to go through items and vote, comment, and perform formal reviews with structured questions that are scored. It can also be distributed to other SharePoint sites so that reviewers can do their work from the comfort of wherever they normally work.

Manage your portfolio of Approved ideas. Get reports that are sliced and diced as you need them. Track next review dates. Use actions to push approved items into downstream activities such as implementation teams, project sites, or even external systems.

See the activity for multiple communities in our interactive dashboard. Use the "Pie Picker" to switch between communities and see activity over time, by status and by group. You can also meet precise reporting needs with our customizable Pivot Charts, Tabular reporting, and interactive Flash charts.

An effective approach to innovation requires a system that is flexible to meet your changing needs and new scenarios. We excel at providing flexibility through our architecture, design, wizards, and our Open App toolset - all running natively on SharePoint. Many tasks are performed with a few clicks as shown here using our Display Wizard to manage actions made available to users. A comprehensive, flexible solution on top of the leading collaboration platform - a solid recipe for innovation success.