Hi everyone, I'm Joe from Cobry and today I'm going
to be talking with Maarit the Head of Partner Development at Happeo.
So, would you be able to provide us a bit of an introduction to yourself and Happeo as well?
Absolutely, so my name is Maarit Huhtala and I am the Head of PartnerDevelopment here at Happeo.
So I work with our partners in EU mainly and also in APAC. A bit about Hppeo, our founding story
actually goes back to the time where our founders were working with Google G Suite
back in the day or nowadays Google Workspace in Finland. So they were actually a Google Partner
here deploying Google Workspace to different customers and they noticed that there actually
was a gap in the offering. So they noticed that a lot of their customers would have wanted to have
some type of a comprehensive and social intranet solution that would integrate nicely with the
different Google tools like Google Drive, Gmail and Calendar and there was no such a solution
in the market. So they actually started developing their own solution. The idea
behind Happeo is that we bring together collaboration with communication all in one place.
So Happeo is this type of a social intranet solution that combines features from traditional
intranets, from enterprise social networks and also integrates deeply with collaboration tools.
And when I say collaboration tools I mean solutions like Google Drive, Gmail,
Calendar everything from your Google Workspace suite but also some third-party solutions like
Slack or AODocs we integrate with as well. What do you think the main problems are that Happeo solves?
The key issue that Happeo solves is that employee engagement has become a challenge
due to the decentralisation of work, so it's more and more difficult to engage and reach employees
with traditional ways of communicating internally such as email, newsletters
or traditional intranet solutions. Especially because our workforce is no longer
only located in one place, people are working from multiple different locations, nowadays, of
course, more and more from home as well, but a lot of organisations are also global and
people are also using different types of devices. So how do you ensure that everybody is aligned
when it comes to the current state of the world? This is a little bit of a provocative
picture, but oftentimes what we see is that the old intranet solutions don't really
manage or succeed to engage employees with their top-down communications point of view. So
this is obviously an example picture but the idea behind this picture is
just to show you that a lot of the traditional industrial intranet solutions are very text heavy.
They're not bi-directional and people don't use them, so even if you would communicate through
them your employees won't be going into the portal and reading your messages. I suppose that leads on
quite nicely to perhaps being able to see what the interface on Happeo actually looks like then?
This is one of our Happeo demo environments. I always like to say that as a disclaimer
when I start showing the solution because Happeo is very customisable so what you can do here
is actually based on your company brand and the look and feel. You can change the colours, the logos,
here you can change actually what is displayed on the home page based on, you know, what are important
topics and items for your organisation. So basically this is our home page,
it's kind of like your personal dashboard that shows your company news based on your location.
So I'm based in Helsinki, I can see Helsinki news. It also can show you ,for example, your
personal calendar or email, it can show you what is happening in your social spaces, so Channels,
and so on. How this kind of home page is built, or where does all this information
come from is three different information locations in Happeo. So we have Pages,
Channels and People sections. Pages is actually the part where you can build
static sites for your internal usage. So oftentimes into pages our customers would build
a kind of a knowledge base for your company information, HR information, policies, anything
like that, that is that that doesn't change all the time but needs to be available for each employee.
We always say that the pages is the static part of Happeo but it's good for you to notice that
actually pages are built of multiple different types of widgets that can be
text widgets or images but can also be dynamic widgets that show you information from different
locations. So, for example, we have a Google Maps widget in here and we also have a profile
card widget in here that shows the user's profile card so it doesn't need to be completely static.
Then the second, I would say the most important part of Happeo is really the Channels section.
And the Channels section is that social enterprise inside your organisation. So, via channels you can
actually share news and updates that are targeted to different people based on, for example, their
location or their role. In Channels you can also build team spaces or team rooms for
different parts of the organisation. So you can see here we have an HR team channel and Management
team Channel and you can also have social use cases for channels such as sharing celebrations,
recognitions and so on. So channels is this kind of a versatile social part of Happeo.
And then finally, we have a People section. So the People section is basically the place
where you can find all your colleagues from. So, for example, if I
was looking for a Human Resources person, I could just type in 'human' I can find
our HR manager's profile and get in contact with them. Well, there we
have it folks if you'd like to find out more about Happeo then head on over to our website.