Alfresco Drives Saint- Gobain's Intranet Digital Services François Juin de Faucal Delivery Manager Intranet services
Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s top 100 leading industrial corporations Free cash flow Capital expenditure Recurring net income Sales € bn OPERATIONS IN 64 COUNTRIES SALES € bn Nearly 190,000 EMPLOYEES
Saint-Gobain’s Sectors 9% No. 2 worldwide bottles and jars Operations in 14 countries 14,000 employees Packaging Verallia 45% No. 1 in Europe building materials distribution network No. 1 in Europe in plumbing, heating and sanitaryware products Operations in 27 countries Over 64,000 employees Building Distribution 25% No. 1 worldwide in ductile cast iron pipe No. 1 worldwide in plasterboard and plaster No. 1 worldwide in insulation No. 1 in Europe for wall facings No. 1 worldwide for tile adhesives No. 2 in the United States in siding products Manufacturing operations in 55 countries Nearly 47,000 employees 21% Flat Glass No. 1 in Europe No. 2 worldwide Operations in 42 countries Over 32,000 employees High-Performance Materials No. 1 worldwide Operations in 42 countries More than 26,000 employees Construction Products Innovative Materials of 2013 consolidated net sales
Saint-Gobain today One of the Top 100 industrial corporations in the world A unique strategic positioning that has proven its strength during the crisis Immense know-how in terms of strategy, technology, innovation and market intelligence A Group vision to support our goals: be THE reference for sustainable habitat
Alfresco in Saint-Gobain A long story : from version 2.2 to version 4,X 3 on-premise (internal) instances in Saint-Gobain: ●Alfresco-Euro (Worldwide instance) ●Alfresco-Asia (for Asia Pac countries) ●Alfresco-Partners: will be replaced with Alfresco Cloud Alfresco in the Cloud ●660 network users and 285 external users: total 945 users ●805 sites ●16Gb Alfresco Mobile ●Deployed on 767 iOS devices
Alfresco main usages in Saint-Gobain Ref documents : common repository Sharing documents between # physical sites Alfresco-Euro -Worldwide -America & Europe sharing users docs Alfresco-Partners -Worldwide partners sharing users docs Alfresco-Asia -AsiaPac -sharing users docs
Alfresco Upgrade to v4.2.1 Migration Reasons User interface improvements with Alfresco Share Expected increase in performance & stability New workflow engine “Activiti”: Modern UI with Filters like history (Active and Completed), Due date, Priority, Assignee DAM (Digital Asset Mng) capacity
Intranet Digital Services WEB SSO DIRECTORY NEWSLETTER VIDEO PORTAL WIKI SURVEY MY.SAINT-GOBAIN ALFRESCO DMS LIVELINK DMS ENTERPRISE SEARCH Communicate CollaborateManage documents Search Authenticate & Secure
Portal My Saint-Gobain Communication Collaboration WebDAV Alfresco Mobile
Alfresco Interfaces Portal 10 Available actions according to users’ permissions Portal (Liferay)
Alfresco Interfaces Social collaboration (Jive) Available actions according to users’ permissions
Current application integration My Saint-Gobain Jive Alfresco Portal My Saint-Gobain portlet Alfresco portlet Alfresco widget
List of identified difficulties and improvements to bring Too many different interfaces Portal content is not personalized for end users No “up to date” L&F or common navigation logic across services No mobile optimized interface (or not clear for end users) Access rights management can be complicated to understand, especially for the link Alfresco My Saint-Gobain
Actions identified We identify 5 main actions to achieve the SG Digital Employee Workplace : Landing page Defining the landing (welcome) page for employee, with personalization capabilities, social features, integration with other services… User Interface Having a common rendering for the services, have mobile experience and common navigation logic Shared Access Rights Facilitating the access rights management, especially with the links between LDAP Groups and MySG groups Centralized Identity Designing the profile page or clarifying the way to display the people identity Key Performance Indicators Building common framework with similar indicators to analyze the usages and statistics on each services
15 My Saint-Gobain Jive Alfresco Alfresco portlets My Saint-Gobain portlets Landing page on Portal target environment Web Applications News