Employee Engagement & Social Networking Platform for MOSS

nGage is a new innovative software product that integrates specifically with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It extends and leverages SharePoint's core functionality to transform your intranet into a platform for universal Employee Engagement. Its support for the development and execution of engagement strategies is as unique as it is compelling. As comprehensive as it is powerful.

Employee Engagement

nGage directly supports various notions of what drives Employee Engagement - including helping leaders clearly communicate goals, strategies and values - and listening to what the organization has to say.
nGage manifests itself in employees being good citizens and going the extra mile in support of their organization. It is massive driver of performance. No matter what your current level of Employee Engagement, nGage with SharePoint brings a comprehensive, coherent, integrated framework for dramatic improvements.

nGage with SharePoint

nGage is software that integrates specifically with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). It complements and leverages SharePoint's core functionality to transform the intranet into a platform for universal Employee Engagement. And it gives leaders and managers powerful new tools to monitor and drive organizational, departmental, team and individual performance.

nGage transforms SharePoint 2007–based intranets into measurably dynamic behavioral, communication, knowledge and talent management hubs. It does this by extending SharePoint’s out-of-the-box functionality with highly viral social networking features and rich support for generating and capturing ideas and innovation. It then tracks every relevant usage of SharePoint - both core (e.g. checking in a document, publishing a blog, contributing to a discussion) and our proprietary functionality (e.g. giving feedback, Q&A, submitting an idea, rating someone else’s). This data is then available to be aggregated, published and analyzed.

To the individual's 'My Profile' - defining their reputation as an 'engaged employee'.
As powerful internal communications content - e.g. top performing individuals/departments by any criteria you choose - or this month's highest (peer) rated idea.
To the Leadership Dashboard - e.g. allowing usage/behavioural trends to be tracked, departmental black holes and hot spots to be identified - and benchmarks and targets to be set and managed.

Benefits of nGage

nGage drives and measures Collaboration, Citizenship and Innovation - and aligns these 'discretionary behaviours' to organizational strategy: this is a generally accepted definition of Employee Engagement and proven to be a massive driver of organizational performance.
nGage not only enables Innovation, it constantly reinforces the notion that being an innovator - individually and collaboratively - is part of the expectation of being an employee. That means a constant stream of great, peer-rated suggestions for top and bottom line performance improvements and, more importantly, the readiness to execute on them.
The business case for nGage can be attached to strategies for Knowledge and Information Management - because it encourages and measures the creation and capture of valuable content that might otherwise be lost to the organization - and makes it accessible via Enterprise Search.
nGage provides strong support for Internal Communications - because it automatically generates great content - and transforms a SharePoint-based intranet into a medium for interactive conversations that draw in all areas and levels of an organization.
nGage is a powerful Talent Management resource: nGage directly supports recruitment (through employee referrals)- and its highly viral social networking features provide great support for on boarding, integration and retention. And, because it drives universal uptake of My Profile, you get unique visibility of and access to the all the talents and aspirations within the organization.

nGage Businss Intelligence

The nGage Business Intelligence solution, based on Microsoft PeformancePoint becomes available summer 2009. nGage Business Intelligence allows you to understand your organizations engagement in a fast and effective way. The solution will be available to clients without any additional cost.

nGage and Microsoft

OI Software's nGage is developed for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) platform using the latest Microsoft technologies. The nGage WebParts are designed to take the look and feel of the Client's SharePoint configuration and will seamlessly fit with corporate standards. Using Silverlight and AJAX for an enhanced user experience all WebParts have been designed for usability from the ground up.

Management Information reports and dashboard data are generated through Microsoft SQL Server's Reporting Services features and are delivered to the desktop in a wide variety of display options.

Using the latest Microsoft .NET Framework (3.5) the business layer components are used to enforce the nGage business processes. Developed to design guidance standards with full integrated documentation the business layer features robust error handling and auditing features.

The data access layer utilizes Microsoft's latest data querying language, LINQ. By combining the rapid development process of direct LINQ along with tradition database stored procedures, the data access layer is auto generated from the nGage database.

Purchase

nGage is available from a channel of Authorized OI Software partners cross the EMEA region. For more information, please call us today or send an e-mail. Recommended list price: entry level prices are extremely competitive. Detailed pricing available on request.

Education pricing available!