What's a Yakabox?

It's a social network with a real job. Creativity and experience are not only your organization's most valuable assets, they're the easiest to lose and the hardest to find. We use secure social networking technologies to go beyond the limitations of structured data. Now your team can capture, manage and share knowledge—the messy, hard-to-classify stuff that really matters. The Yakabox™ goes beyond "who knows who." It connects you to who knows what, where it is, how it's all related...and maybe most important, how you can use this intelligence.

Who knows who? Who knows what?

It's secure hardware and software. We realized from the get-go that we couldn’t paste any old label on the Yakabox™.  It's not a massive "information" repository. It’s more than social networking or collaboration or content management or enterprise search. It's the best of all those applications in a secure appliance, where every component—hardware and software—is engineered to protect sensitive information.

It eliminates the most common causes of KM failure. More than 70% of traditional KM deployments fail. Why? They take too long to deploy, they're devilishly difficult to maintain, and they’re infrastructure hogs. (The Yakabox™ has none of these disadvantages.) But more than anything, KM fails because people won’t use the system. Here’s where the Yakabox™ really shines.

It's the most intuitive way to collaborate. We designed the Yakabox™  from the outset to address two realities—human behavior and organizational culture—that most enterprise systems ignore. Viral adoption just doesn’t happen unless users “own” the system. So instead of forcing them to abandon familiar workflows and quirks, the Yakabox™ lets individuals and teams do things their way on a common platform. Instead of waiting in line for IT customization, power users roll out their own applications in hours, not months. Most important, they do it without compromising security, standardization or corporate policy.

It deploys 5 to 10 times faster than COTS or custom software. If speeding up an enterprise knowledge-sharing deployment by just 5% can shave millions from a system's lifetime ownership cost, what's the benefit of deploying five to ten times faster? You do the math.

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