On March 22, 2012, Cogent Company hosted a group of restaurant industry executives at the Tower Club in downtown Dallas. Marc Hoppers kicked things off and introduced Bill Schaffler, Black Box Intelligence/People Report CFO, who gave a Q1 restaurant industry overview using his firm's data from over 50,000 restaurant units in the United States. Simon Saugier and Marc Hoppers followed Bill with an overview of a restaurant analytics solution that Cogent has developed.

1. Social
Business
Processes
and
Collabora2on
with
SharePoint
TechFest
2012
May
17,
2012

2. Social
Business
Processes
CorasWorks
for
SharePoint…
Core
Capabili2es
All
the
great
features
of
Social
social
collabora+on,
but
Collabora+on within
a
business
context
CorasWorks!
for SharePoint!
Transform
collabora+ve
Process
ac+vity
into
business
results—
Management
provide
the
business
context
Integra+on,
customiza+on,
and
Enterprise
flexibility
to
support
a
Integra+on
comprehensive
enterprise
solu+on
2
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

3. Social
Business
Processes…
Collabora+on
Social
Collabora2on…
Communi2es
• Create
one
or
many
communi2es
• departmental
or
team
communi+es
• idea
communi+es
• event-­‐driven
campaigns
• Challenges
• contests
• Social,
collabora2ve
front-­‐end
to
business
processes
• Rich
set
of
collabora2ve
features—post,
comment,
rate,
tag,
subscribe
3
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

4. Social
Business
Processes…
Collabora+on
Social
Collabora2on…
Ac2vity
Stream
• See
and
access
all
your
posts
and
ac+vi+es
from
across
mul+ple
communi+es
• Work
with
items
directly
from
the
Ac+vity
Stream—no
need
to
navigate
to
the
community
or
site
• Drop
the
Ac+vity
Stream
into
any
community
or
SharePoint
site
• Community
lists,
Watch
List,
and
My
Ac+vity
4
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

5. Social
Business
Processes…
Collabora+on
Social
Collabora2on…
Social
Networking
• Deep
integra+on
with
SharePoint
2010
social
networking
features
• Access
and
leverage
User
Profiles,
My
Sites,
Like-­‐Its,
Notes,
and
tags
5
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

6. Social
Business
Processes…
Processes
Process
Management…
Structured
Processes
• May
have
the
need/
desire
to
put
certain
collabora+ve
content
through
structured
back-­‐end
processes
• Build
structured
business
processes
for
downstream
management
• Structured
stage-­‐
gate
processes
• Leverage
automa+c
no+fica+ons
and
workflow
6
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

7. Social
Business
Processes…
Processes
Process
Management…
Configurable
Ga2ng
• Drive
collabora+ve
content
through
pre-­‐configured
processes
and
stages
• Leverage
ac+ons,
no+fica+ons,
and
workflow
• Map
to
your
specific
processes
7
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

8. Social
Business
Processes…
Processes
Process
Management…
Configurable
Ga2ng
• Collaborative
Management
Review"
• Provides quick
way for
management to
review and
approve content
from collaborative
activity"
• Review, vote,
comment, and
score"
8
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

9. Social
Business
Processes…
Dashboards
Dashboards
&
Repor2ng
• See activity from a
single community
or multiple
communities,
campaigns,
challenges, or
contests"
• Pivot charting and
interactive flash
charting"
• Integration with
Excel, Excel
Services, Access,
and SQL Reporting
Services"
9
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

10. Who
Is
Cogent?
Who
is
Cogent
Company?
10
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

11. Who
Is
Cogent?
Par2al
Client
List
by
Industry
Financial
Services/
Restaurant/Retail/Hospitality
Hospital/Life
Science
Insurance/Real
Estate
Technology/Communica+on/
Media
Manufacturing/Energy
11
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

12. Who
Is
Cogent?
Cogent
Thinking
Books
• Office
2003
Programming:
Real
World
Applica+ons
• Pro
ASP.NET
2.0
Website
Programming
• Mastering
Office
Programming
with
VSTO
• Beginning
Microsoe
Word
2010
Ar+cles
(call
for
links)
•
5
Business
Reasons
for
Adop+ng
the
Windows
Plaform
-­‐
CIO.COM
• Easy
Time
&
Billing
with
SharePoint,
Outlook,
&
Excel
(and
VSTO
tool)
-­‐
Devx.com
• Repurpose
SharePoint
Services
Data
Using
Excel's
Spreadsheet
XML
-­‐
Devx.com
• Outlook
the
Way
You
Want
It—Build
Custom
Outlook
GUIs
with
WinForms
&
VSTO
-­‐
Devx.com
• Create
a
Sales
Dashboard
using
Excel,
InfoPath
and
VSTO
2005
-­‐
Devx.com
• VSTO's
Outlook
Integra+on
Makes
Building
Managed
Add-­‐ins
A
Snap
-­‐
Devx.com
• An
Office
Developer's
Timesaver:
Using
VSTO
2005
to
Integrate
Excel
and
Access
-­‐
Devx.com
Academics
• Southern
Methodist
University,
Cox
School
of
Business:
Adjunct
Faculty;
Guest
Lecturer,
IT
and
Opera+ons
Management.
• University
of
North
Texas:
Guest
Lecturer
in
College
of
Business
Administra+on
and
English
Department;
Advisory
Board,
College
of
Business
Administra+on,
Informa+on
Technology
&
Decision
Sciences
Department
• Member,
University
of
North
Texas
Center
for
Decision
and
Informa+on
Technology.
12
©
2012.
Cogent
Company.
Proprietary
and
Confiden+al.

13. For
more
informa2on,
contact
Cogent
www.cogentcompany.com
info@cogentcompany.com
214.341.1004