Felix BinsackIBM ChampionFounder & CIO TIMETOACT GROUPInventor and Product Manager of XCCfelix.binsack@timetoact-group.com

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Customer Statement

Soner Boga,Process- and Application

Consultant,HANSA-FLEX AG

„We only use „XCC for Communities“ at the moment. It helpsour project marketing to inform about the project status, upcoming events, contact persons and all other stakeholderrelevant topics. In addition to that, „XCC for Communities“ isused to inform about our departments duty and offeredservices.

XCC gives more structure to IBM Connection as it prominentlyplaces relevant information on the communities home page. Therefore, XCC leads to more tranparancy and decreasesfriction loss.“

Customer Statement

Arey Zargham & John MerlinoTufts Health Plan

“XCC is for us the bridge to aggregate content written in IBM connections and put it in front of everyone. It makes IBM Connections more customizable and the employees feel more comfortable going back because the information seems more relevant to them.

In our organization, we have users who belong to more than one communities. It’s so much easier with XCC as you just set to have the different channels and display that aggregated content and put it all in one place for them to go to.

We found gold with XCC!”

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Mr. Sigthor Hilmisson, Head of IT Department,

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland

"We are very happy with XCC, it has become a total game changer for our use of Connections."

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Gabi Bauer, Change Management Team@ Sparda-Bank Munich

"Every employee has their knowledge, their ideas, their input that they want to give and which we encourage them to share for the company’s benefit.

We want to progress, to put our vision of working towards the common good into action. That’s why it was crucial to bring more openness and transparency into our company.”

Maike Schrieverhoff, Internal Communication,

Ernsting’s family

“We wanted to offer better service to our employees by incorporating relevant and up-to-date content, such as the company’s turnover, into our platform and display company-wide essential news clearly visible on the Connections start page.

With XCC, we were able to create a user-friendly, organized and visually appealing exchange platform within IBM Connections for company-wide issues. “

Sven BradtkeHead of IT

OstseeSparkasseRostock

„There is a huge gap from the traditional intranet to a modern social intranet. XCC is the bridge between them: It makes the shift more comfortable for the employees. It encourages even those employees to ‘like’ and ‘comment’, who are normally less active in a social intranet.

XCC can be implemented easily and flexible. It's interesting for all companies that deem portal solutions as too expensive, but still don't want to miss out on a structured interface in IBM Connections.”

Customer Statement

„IBM Connections already starts benefitting, if only a handful teams actively work with it in the beginning. For employees, who aren't all that technically versed, XCC helps display relevant information. This way, all employees are provided for with information and can slowly get more accustomed to IBM Connections. XCC accelerates that implementation process immensely.

XCC is a useful extension for IBM Connections – an absolute must-have.”

Sven BradtkeHead of IT

OstseeSparkasseRostock

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Customer Statement

Mag. Wolfgang Ponesch, Direktor

Raiffeisen Rechenzentrums KG

“Through solutions like IBM Connections in general and XCC in particular virtualizing Collaboration gets much easier.

Our employees wanted a clear and structured user interface. XCC fits their needs in an absolut perfect way.”

Customer Statement

Santiago Suarez MesaConsultor T.I.

MercadeoGRUPO FAMILIA

“XCC is the perfect compliment for IBM Connections, this solution made the project possible and we are really happy with the results so far. It is really easy to customize with almost no technical skills required.”

Customer Statement

Georg Probst, Director Business

Engineering Infrastructure, Lantal Textiles AG

“We really had some problems with user confusion and irritation after launching IBM Connections due the user interface. Landing Pages and Communities based on XCC solved this problem completely and increased user acceptance significantly.

The user feedback on landing pages based on XCC has been phenomenal from the first moment on. We have never been able to evaluate any collaboration add-on product as fast as XCC.”

Customer Statement

Alexander RamsegerManager Application

Integration and CollaborationBerge & Meer Touristik GmbH

There have been some pilot projects with IBM Connections in the last two years, but the general acceptance was low. Only a small minority of knowledge workers were using it regularly.

In 2015 we launched IBM Connections with XCC for the whole company. XCC enabled us to transform IBM Connections in a real intranet platform for everyone. The “for all effect” is amazing. Our intranet is now entirely used for both: Collaboration and Internal Communications.

The relaunch of IBM Connections with XCC was a big bang, an absolute success. XCC gave us the push we needed. Now IBM Connections is widely adopted from Management to accountants.

I wish we had initially launched IBM Connections with XCC from the very beginning, that would have made things much easier.

After only 90 minutes training, even our IT layman were able to create great landingpages for their departments. That’s absolutely incredible!

Stefan SchindlbeckManager Information Technology

Intranet Project Manager

“With XCC the launch of IBM Connections was much more effective. The XCC based Intranet landing pages are a communication channel to our managers and simplify onboarding of our employees to IBM Connections.

XCC has increased acceptance of our Intranet and is an indispensable tool for us.”

Carolin Strunk Internal Communications

and Public RelationsIntranet Project Deputy

Manager

Customer Statement

• In this Interview, Carolin Strunk from the German saving bank syndicate, is talking about their problems finding a suitable platform for both, communication & collaboration, and their (very positive) experiences with IBM Connections and XCC – Web Content & Custom Apps Extension as their Intranet.

• Learn how the gap between communication and collaboration can be closed by using IBM Connections and XCC – Web Content & Custom Apps Extension as a intranet that covers internal communications, collaboration and increasingly applications. “We used XCC to build a homepage that guides the users and gives structure to IBM Connections”. Watch this video:Watch the Interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgN559jXlgY

Interview: German Saving Bank Syndicate is using IBM Connections and XCC

Customer Statement

Manfred MeindlManager Intranet and

Online Marketing

"VAUDE has had an conventional intranet with a web content management system. It worked OK for our internal communications. However, the content from line of business outdated / decayed quickly. We were therefore looking for an alternative Intranet platform.

As a medium sized company we wanted to avoid running multiple platforms for communication and collaboration. We were searching for an integrated or hybrid intranet platform that spans collaboration, knowledge management and internal communications.

IBM Connections convinced us as a superior collaboration and knowledge management platform. The Web Content Management Extension (XCC) from TIMETOACT neatly integrates internal communications into IBM Connections.”

Customer Statement

Manfred MeindlManager Intranet and

Online Marketing

“We created an ideal information architecture that seamlessly integrates internal communications and collaboration in an hybrid Intranet. Our new Intranet has been perceived very well by our employees. As it turned out, the integrated internal communications simplifies and accelerates the adoption of IBM Connections withinthe employees. The Web Content Management Extension can be adopted to changing requirements easily. Line of business appreciates the simplicity with which they can create and curate content to maintain their landing pages.

Throughout the project we worked with TIMETOACT for analysis, conception, consulting, customization and implementation. All work was achieved within the agreed budget. Our experiences with TIMETOACT were excellent and we can fully recommend working with TIMETOACT."

Customer Statement

Eva MartinezOrganizational Development

Lapp Holding AG

“XCC revolutionized our Intranet entirely!

Now, relevant content can be populated completely intuitive within seconds and is globally accessible.

It is a real innovation.”

Customer Statement

This innovative solution brings additional value to an IBM Connections environment, allowing our customers to elegantly integrate their internal communication’s content into their social business platform. IBM and TIMETOACT together, a partnership to accelerate social business.“

“IBM Collaboration Services is excited to partner with TIMETOACT to bring their Content Management Extension for IBM Connections to our customers as an IBM Collaboration Services App.

Customer Statement

Customer from the Insurance Branch. Willing to talk to potential customers, ask for contact information.

“IBM Connect 2014 confirmed for me that the choices we made regarding IBM Connections and to combine it with your product, the Web Content Management Extension for IBM Connections were the right decisions and we will stick to that.”

Customer Statement

Jürgen FischerProject Manager

Communication andCollaboration Services,

Pilz GmbH & Co.KG

“In order for Pilz Connections to succeed, it was important to offer all employees simple and clear first steps into the world of social business.

The TIMETOACT solution enabled us to avoid reservations and acquaint users with the concept of knowledge management.”

Customer Statement

“Felix, I do not think you will have problems selling your product once people figure it out. Your product completes IBM Connections. As you say in your marketing material it provides the top-down communication that overlays IBM Connections so that the employee has no other place to attend to. They get the top down via your product and the bottom up via IBM Connections. Employees do not have to go anywhere else, everything is in one place.”

US Government Customer with a “no public reference” policy. Willing to talk to potential customers, ask for contact information.

Customer Statement

“Felix:

I am putting together our budget for FY2015, and would like to receive a quote to purchase the Connections Administration Toolkit. We have had such great luck with XCC, that I would like to see if CAT can help us as well.”

US Government Customer with a “no public reference” policy. Willing to talk to potential customers, ask for contact information.

Customer Statement

R. Angioni

Saxion, University of Applied Sciences,

Netherlands

“Felix / Philipp, in a off-time minute (during a break) I installed XCC in our acceptation environment. Everything went smooth, no problems during the installation.. (like you said).”

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“Felix, we are now using XCC in the new Connect v 5 environment. WOW, what a cool extension to Connections. Great job !!”

Customer Statement

Sander Zwart, SocialBusiness Consultant, ilionx, Netherlands

“XCC has transformed IBM Connections into a complete intranet environment. With XCC we are able to combine the social features of IBM Connections with the functionalities and look & feel of an intranet.

It enables us to create an intranet homepage that shows the most important content from Connections. End users can read the latest company news, easily access applications, find upcoming events and locate colleagues.”

Customer Statement

Marcin Kasa, Axxiome Group

“XCC brings internal communication on whole new level.

With gathering most valuable content in one place and presenting it in modern way, XCC helps to increase users' awareness about company's life and improves onboarding process for new employees.

And this is only a small part of XCC capabilities.”

Customer Statement

“The acceptance for our new intranet based on IBM Connections and XCC is very high among our employees. XCC is used by corporate communication as an information platform for communicating internal matters towards employees. IBM Connections is used as a platform for collaboration among employees. Information and collaboration platform are perfectly integrated into a user-friendly and powerful intranet. Collaboration across departments has grown significantly. Both new and experienced employees appreciate the new intranet very much.”

Retail sector customer with a “no public reference” policy. Willing to talk to potential customers, ask for contact information.