Zöchling - Social Intranet

Challenge

Zöchling is a group of companies with a diverse range of business focuses. More than 450 people - with and without stationary PCs - need
to be supported in their daily work and provided with information. The information transfer should be achieved through an intranet solution as a knowledge storage facility.

Social Intranet Approach

Classic intranet solutions usually have the same problem. Information cemeteries are created that are filled once but are very difficult to maintain. The use is then limited to the PDF organizational chart and department profiles. There is no process or communication support.

Digitalsunray already has experience with the introduction of Web 2.0 concepts for internal organizational communication and has developed a concept for Zöchling that uses the advantages of these approaches for the company.

The social intranet is based on the HumHub platform and was specially adapted for the Zöchling group of companies. This solution is intended to improve communication and knowledge exchange within the company.

The goal is to create a central platform where employees can share information, discuss and collaborate. This is intended to avoid the problem of information graveyards. A place of communication for all employees. Moving away from a pure information push concept to an information pull approach. This makes the use and maintenance of the intranet easier.

Conclusion

We adapted the open source social intranet platform to the needs of the Zöchling group of companies and developed independent modules with our development team in order to elegantly digitize certain processes. Because the requirements across individual companies are broad. The distribution of information and knowledge transfer is at the heart of this, which is open to all employees and thus enables a new type of collaboration.