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WorkLight® for the Enterprise

Organizations are rapidly changing as younger people enter the workforce and businesses operate across many locations.  These young employees expect universal access at work to the social networks and personal productivity tools and services they are already using at home.  Some examples include personalized homepages (iGoogle, Netvibes, etc.), social networks (Facebook, Hi5), social bookmarking (e.g. delicious), RSS, instant messaging, desktop widgets and others.  This is part of an irreversible trend analysts call “the consumerization of IT.”

WorkLight for the Enterprise is a secure and scalable server-based product that extends the reach of enterprise applications to the consumer world of Web 2.0. It allows staff of all technical levels to access the application data they need to do their jobs via tools like RSS, personalized home pages, widgets, instant messaging, social networking tools and others. Examples of application data include information related to purchases or tasks, time reporting, customer details, invoice data, inventory levels, orders, and many other types of business records.   		 
WorkLight for the Enterprise provides substantial employee productivity gain, since people can find and use the information they need to do their jobs, quickly, efficiently and securely. Its enterprise-ready technology is scalable and conforms to all your existing corporate security and access-control policies.  
WorkLight also allows companies to facilitate secure collaboration and business interactions between employees and trusted partners on Facebook, the popular social network. WorkLight's secure overlay for Facebook can be used to easily create a secure internal network leveraging Facebook's social graph.
     
With WorkLight, employers will:
    Contribute directly to the bottom line – eliminate worker inefficiencies by providing widgets and other self-service Web 2.0 tools that tailor specifically to unique needs of each employee and department. Through WorkLight, basic business tasks, such as time reporting and billing, are efficiently streamlined.
    Help attract top talent – enable secure use of cutting-edge social tools inside and outside the organization, thereby instilling an innovative and inspiring corporate culture.
    Save the organization money – by relying on robust IT infrastructure of popular Web 2.0 public services, the organization significantly reduces maintenance and enterprise systems upgrade costs.
    Promote employee-driven initiatives and sense of ownership – employ a “folksonomy” approach to business interactions both within the organization and with trusted partners.
With WorkLight, employees will:
    Save time and effort – complete mundane tasks, such as time reporting and expense reports, via cumbersome applications.
    Streamline projects – drive secure enterprise-wide collaboration with geographically-remote peers and trusted professionals .
    Foster collaboration via secure enterprise networking – employees can find expertise and answers quickly, thereby becoming much more effective at work. By using Facebook, professional colleagues are already part of the enterprise social network.

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What Your Employees Can Do With WorkLight:
 
Marisa, a civil engineer based in London, uses WorkLight’s secure Facebook app to find corporate colleagues in Asia and North America who have already solved a structural challenge she has just been assigned.
Joe, a field rep, posts a link to an interesting document on SharePoint through a secure iGoogle widget, so that peers in other regions can use the information in sales presentations
Analysts at a global consultancy firm, update their billable hours to an SAP system via web-based widgets accessible anywhere in the world using a simple browser.
Rajiv, an Accounts Receivables manager, shares an unpaid invoice record with the appropriate sales manager using a desktop widget.
Brenda, a department manager approves purchase and vacation requests from a web-based widget. Previously, she had to access the SAP system directly to address these requests.