SAFIRA 2.0

Damn right it is!

Maybe more than we think at this point. It wasn’t by chance that I mentioned it in my Enterprise 2.0 presentation at SAFIRA 2008.

EPM deployment in January 2007 has changed something fundamental, but it seems to me that we (as a team) haven’t completely realized the full scope of this change …yet.
The project is thoroughly documented. We had training sessions. There’s an EPM site on MOSS about it with lots of references and reading materials. Still, there seems to be something missing. Here’s my 0.2 EUR on what that is.

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Google SAFIRA

Index and search an entire enterprise using the Google technology, the best and most widely used search technology. At SAFIRA we do it with the Google Search Appliance, aka GSA, which is nothing more than Google in a yellow box.

Create awesome mashups and plug-ins to index reference corporate data and internet Web Services. Return everything there is to know about a customer, in a coherent results page, just by searching his customer ID. It’s easily accomplished by developing Google plug-ins that index our ERP, CRM, documents, project wikis and everything that has an URL or runs on a database. And that’s just the beginning. Search employee information (except salary receipts), corporate news, pools, surveys, group calendar and every other bit of data.

Remeber life before Google? Didn’t think so. Make Goggle SAFIRA the front door to our corporate web 2.o, just like Google.com is the front door to the Internet.

Visit www.safira.pt or www.google.com/enterprise for more information on Google Search Appliance.

Devise and implement a plan to attract and retain a solid user base, just like launching an online public service. Listen to user feedback, improve and launch new features, improve usability a reliability to keep your users happy and coming back for more.

This project is part of SAFIRA’s Enterprise 2.0 initiative created to completely revamp the way we work, communicate, collaborate and manage the company, by introducing a new breed of social software behind and across the firewall. Be a part of a corporate cultural shift!

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