1. 2/12/2002 Visiomeca.com Information, promotion and trade opportunities for SMEs

2. 2/12/2002 Rhône-alpes mechanical industry 50 % of the total number of industrial companies Mainly a subcontracting activity First mechanical region in France Skill oriented rather than market oriented The main markets in which mechanical industry is involved –Automobile –Aeronautics and space –Food –Industrial equipment –Health –Environment –Energy

3. 2/12/2002 A plan to promote mechanical industry 1998 : strategic study of the mechanical sector 2001 : Visiomeca is launched end 2002 : more than 1500 companies are concerned with the plan

4. 2/12/2002 Visiomeca programme The mechanical plan Visiomeca has three major goals: –Promotion of the companies of Rhone-Alps. –Stimulation of the trade between French and European major clients and the companies of Rhone-Alps. –It is based on a partnership between the Rhone-Alps region, the French state, the professional organisations ( trade union Chamber of Rhone-Alps metallurgy, union of mechanics industries…), the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Rhone-Alps and the technical centres gathered within the ACTRA.

5. 2/12/2002 18 projects in three years Markets surveys. Promotion on special events. Website. Business travel Industrial Cluster. Training and consultancy in Innovation process and Partnership development. Diagnostic of the needs of 600 companies A global budget of 15 M€ for 3 years

6. 2/12/2002 Visiomeca network Putting together all the players concerned by industrial development –Chamber of Commerce and Industry –Professional associations –Technical Centres –Regional Council –Ministry of Industry Both at a regional level and a local level –regional co-ordination: five people –local action : fifty people with projects leaders

7. 2/12/2002 Internet and Visiomeca give to the visiomeca network a tool to better work –Store common information –Manage projects promote and develop our companies business –Promote Rhone-Alpes industrial offer –Disseminate information to company –Help companies to doing business

8. 2/12/2002 Visiomeca.net Private internet community Secure project spaces with calendar and document management system Quickplace of Lotus Notes

9. 2/12/2002 visiomeca.com Project Launched in June 2001 Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the project leader An overall budget of 500 K€ for 3 years including 280 K€ of external costs (software development, marketing and communication) First online publication in March 2002

10. 2/12/2002 Visiomeca.com user spaces Visitors space –A showroom of the web site Rhone-Alpes companies space –A personal space to show the company offer on its markets Clients space –A personal space to identify and contact companies and to promote business opportunities Market animators space –A space to update market space with information and companies Administrator space (BackOffice) –Co-ordination of the web site

11. 2/12/2002 Main functions of the BackOffice Information management –Upload and download documents, create, modify and delete data Rights and services management –Create, delete and modify members –Change the rights of members –Change the definition of each user space Marketing –Publish a Quality questionnaire –Visitors statistics –Mailling

12. 2/12/2002 A short tour in visiomeca.com Visitors –Visitors can read selected news, events, dossiers, market survey, links –Access to simplified data on companies Rhone-Alps Companies –Publish, Read and Answer to market call for offer –Propose events –Presentation of products in a virtual showroom –Search the companies database –Get information (news, events, market information) –Take contact with a market expert Clients –Publish call for offer –Select companies which fit to their needs and send a mail

13. 2/12/2002 Further developments Need of new services –On profile push information services –GroupWare for partnership –Links with market places Need of productivity improvement –Make the updating of each company space easier by linking the portal to their own website –Offer more more information on markets

14. 2/12/2002 the Aesop project Aesop is a new concept of portal (Architectural Environnements foir Smart Organisation Portals)based on Javaportlet technology Aesop provide to users –Secure working space to share information and to access to high added value expert information. –Digital signature services to secure space and transactions Aesop is a European research project within the Fifth Framework IST Program Aesop partners are : Bologna CCI, Stutgart CCI, Rhone-Alps CCI, Fraunhoffer Institut, Deutsch Telekom, University of Newcastle, ARDEMI

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16. 2/12/2002 Objectives of the three pilots Rhone-Alps pilot –Use secure spaces to creating partnership between SMEs Bologna pilot –Use secure spaces to deliver high added value information services Stuttgart pilot –Use secure spaces to manage training evaluation

17. 2/12/2002 First prototype of AESOP