For 99% of business decisions the answer or required expertise is already somewhere in the organization. The challenge is accessing the right answer or expertise on a timely basis. Hivemine provides solutions to accelerate operational decisions and drive business results. Built on a knowledge and business process management foundation and powered by social tools and big data analytics, Hivemine lets companies build momentum using existing internal expertise. Hivemine bridges functional silos to foster innovation and transforms conversations and content into an accessible asset that fuels growth and provides sustainable competitive advantages.

1. Accelerate Decisions
Company & Product Overview

2. The Problem
! Business strategy lives in
day-to-day operational
decisions.
! Information overload impairs
decision-making.
! Decisions made with limited
information threatens
strategic execution and
exposes the company to risk
and potential compliance
issues.
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3. The Solution
• Hivemine’s AskMe solution is a proven decision
accelerator
• AskMe takes any digital information repository and
organizes it into an accessible knowledge mine.
• AskMe is used by Fortune 500 companies in large
deployments with significant ROI.
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4. AskMe Use Cases
Expertise Identification
Challenge: Novartis needed a one-stop place where R&D, Marketing and
Sales employees around the globe could quickly access information and
expertise.
Solution: Following an extensive evaluation of available solutions, Novartis
selected AskMe for its industry-leading ability to find, access and manage
expertise (people + content + conversations) as a company asset with a
measurable ROI.
Results: 20% reduction in individual country team resources required
through the ability to access expertise assets company-wide.
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5. AskMe Use Cases
Build on Experience
Challenge: With the combined challenge of long-tenured employees
reaching retirement age and an expanding number of programs / locations,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes needed a formal way to capture, document
and leverage employee expertise.
Solution: Boeing migrated from a static viewing solution to AskMe which
provided a means by which employee expertise associated with engineering
drawings could be captured and formally documented as best practices.
Results: The capture of best practices delivered $1M in savings for every
250 engineers.
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6. AskMe Use Cases
Innovation Bridge
Challenge: With R&D centers located across the globe, P&G needed a
means by which scientists working in disparate countries on different
product teams could bridge the gap to explore innovative ideas.
Solution: P&G selected AskMe for its powerful communities of practice
functionality that allowed scientists to connect and engage on both a
functional and organizational basis.
Results: 100 man-years in annual R&D time savings and improved
innovation facilitation leading to two new products – Crest Whitestrips and
Febreze.
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7. AskMe is Easy
! Easy to Use: As easy as using Google.
One-stop access to expertise (people +
content + conversations)
! Easy to Install: Delivered on a pre-
configured network appliance.
! Easy to Adopt: Integrates with existing
applications, data sources, and business
processes.
! Easy to Enhance: Add-on big data
analytics modules to drive even greater
value from expertise resources.
! Easy to Extend: Works with, but not
dependent on SharePoint and other
enterprise social networks.
! Easy to Scale: Organically builds scalable
and reusable knowledge assets.
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8. AskMe Portal
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9. AskMe SharePoint Integration
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10. Business-Ready | Business-Proven
User interface flexibility!
• AskMe Portal
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Microsoft Exchange
• API’s for 3rd party applications
• Multi-interface hybrid
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Data source extensibility!
• Email!
• Microsoft SharePoint!
• Other business systems (i.e. ECM)!
• Enterprise search server
• Other internal/external data sources
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11. Hivemine Corporate Snapshot
! Founded in 2011.
! HQ in Seattle.
! Company focus is on easy access to
expertise to reduce risk and drive results.
! Acquired AskMe software and associated
patents in 2011 to accelerate growth.
! Existing customers include: Boeing, J&J,
Microsoft, Novartis, Pratt & Whitney, PTC,
RW Armstrong, and others.
! Named to KM World’s 2012 list of “100
Companies That Matter in Knowledge
Management.”
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12. Hivemine Vision
! Transparent
• Collect expertise (people + content + conversations) as a by-
product of how people work.
• Make expertise accessible via apps users know and use.
! Focused
• Build and deliver expertise solutions that meet the needs of
knowledge workers.
• Drive business outcomes and measure results.
! Intelligent & Ubiquitous
• Provide a platform to use big data for operational decisions and
solving specific business challenges.
• Easy and secure access to expertise from any location or device.
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13. Accelerate Decisions
Contact:
David Wachter | 206.512.1010 | david.wachter@hivemine.com