Since 1976, SAS ® has been a leading provider of business analytics software and services. With 11,500 employees worldwide, SAS ranked number one on the Fortune 2011 "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. Determined to unify company-wide communication and collaboration within a single tool, specifically through SharePoint integration, SAS implemented Socialcast and internally branded it The Hub. "The Hub is a place for discussions and getting questions answered via a company-wide channel," says Becky Graebe, internal communications manager at SAS. Within the first three weeks of launching The Hub, nearly 5,000 users and 425 groups were created. "It truly went viral in a very organic way," says Graebe.
Nokia Corporation has upwards of 130,000 employees in 120 countries with sales in more than 150 countries and global annual revenue of over €42 billion as of 2010. Socialcast is one of the most recent additions to Nokia's collaboration efforts, which extend back to 2001. Over the past decade, Nokia has evolved its internal collaboration strategy from forums and wikis to SharePoint and Socialcast.
Today, more than 14,000 Nokia employees have accounts on Socialcast, helping the company make communication and collaboration happen faster than ever before. One of these users is Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who holds important dialogues with employees via Socialcast. In a company with employees spread across the globe, saving time and enabling important conversation is critical to innovation. Nokia uses Socialcast to achieve this very objective.
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people’s lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of “sense and simplicity.” Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs about 117,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Humana was founded in 1961, evolving into a health benefits company with the goal of becoming the most trusted name in health solutions. Today, it has more than 28,000 associates committed to providing innovative healthcare solutions to consumers and customers. Focusing on the tenants of People, Choice, Engagement and Innovation, Humana offers employee communication tools that are both secure for the healthcare industry and effective at fostering people-centric collaboration. View the case study
Avaya is an enterprise global communications company with approximately 13,000 employees distributed worldwide. With the goal of helping employees communicate outside of their teams and helping increase mobility for its salesforce, it launched a social community to aid them in transferring knowledge faster and reducing email overload. In addition, their community has helped onboard new employees faster and retain Gen Y talent. View the case study
As part of a pilot program, NASA/JPL launched NASAsphere, a private social community designed to allow employees to socialize around questions/answers and ideas in order to reach collective intelligence and tacit knowledge. With an aging workforce, more than 3,000 internal NASA websites, and the goal of transferring knowledge from the Shuttle program to the Constellation program, the NASAsphere program enabled measured collaboration and connectivity. View the case study