Connectbeam Spotlight Connect for Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft OutlookTM is the number one personal productivity tool in use today, more widely adopted than any other enterprise application. Extraordinarily convenient, email is the leading tool for getting information to employees.

Corporate email also has some attributes of today's social network applications. Employees' most frequently emailed colleagues are their implicit social network. A core component of social networks is interaction, and email is the home for that inside companies. The challenge for organizations is this:

How to increase visibility into knowledge and activities outside the Inbox, leveraging employees' existing social connections?

Spotlight Connect for OutlookTM answers this question. It adds three powerful new dimensions to email:

  1. Provide a 360° view of the sender and recipients' social graph on all emails
  2. With a click, users easily access enterprise knowledge and activities of others without another round of emails
  3. Enable search of the enterprise knowledge and expertise repository right from Outlook

Through Spotlight Connect for Outlook, employees gain greater visibility for knowledge and activities of their colleagues and the overall enterprise, in the flow of their daily work. Connect for Outlook incorporates user Social Profiles generated by Connectbeam SpotlightTM. Spotlight is the enterprise social search and collaboration application, tying together employees' content and social workstreams from inside and outside the enterprise.

In Spotlight, each employee has a Social Profile, which displays their expertise, interests, activities and projects. Users catch up on others' activities at-a-glance, and click to learn more about items of interest. Users can also search the collective enterprise knowledge, activity and expertise right from Outlook. Spotlight Connect for Outlook provides a set of features that plug into your employees' email social network to make knowledge much more accessible:

  • Social Profiles
  • One click access to people's knowledge and activities
  • Outlook search toolbar

Spotlight Connect for Outlook is built as a lightweight plug-in for Outlook. It provides users with significantly more power from within Outlook, without tracking confidential email communications or private behavior.

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