1. Office 365 Offers the Ideal Platform for Building a SharePoint Application to Manage Innovation
“Mydea is an app that enables employees to actively partake in shaping their company’s future through innovation. Mydea is SharePoint-based, which gives customers flexibility and extendibility to additional Microsoft products.” – Till Schomborg, Product Manager, Lufthansa Industry Solutions
SITUATION
Employees have lots of ideas, and companies are chock full of potential. Lufthansa Industry Solutions recognized this as an opportunity to develop an application that generates innovative power from involving its staff in the innovation decision-making process. The company needed to find a collaborative platform in order to bring together all relevant stakeholders and facilitate a digital market for ideas.
OFFICE 365 PARTNER:
Lufthansa Industry Solutions
WEB: lufthansa-industry-solutions.com
LOCATION: Norderstedt, Germany
ORG SIZE: 1,200+ employees
OFFICE 365 PARTNER PROFILE:
Lufthansa Industry Solutions is a service provider for IT consulting and system integration. This subsidiary of Lufthansa supports clients in the digital transformation of their companies. Customers include more than 200 companies in a variety of industries. The Norderstedt-based company has over 1,200 employees in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States.
SOLUTION
The combination of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint proved to be the ideal collaboration platform for developing Mydea. Available as both an on-premises and cloud-ready solution, Mydea integrates with SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, and SharePoint Online. This allows users to extend and customize functionality with other Office 365 apps and Microsoft products and technologies. The quick, flexible scalability of Office 365 makes it easy to add Mydea users as a company grows.
Crowd-based Innovation Management
BENEFITS
Mydea uses SharePoint as a platform and is available in the Office Store with on-premises and cloud-ready functionality.
Office 365 integration enables Mydea users to customize and extend their solution with other Office 365 apps and Microsoft products.