TOPS Social portal

The TOPS Consulting company announced in the fall of 2014 the TOPS Social portal platform. The application ensures effective functioning of employees with information, a comfortable working environment and convenient IT tools for independent work. Due to consolidation of the classical intranet and corporate social network a system increases labor productivity, stimulates growth of the involvement of personnel and reduces communication costs of the company.

The greatest advantages of use "TOPS Sotsialny the portal" will be got by the companies with thousands of employees, geographically distributed or with the diversified directions of business. The expediency of use of the solution increases at industry need of accumulation by personnel of skills and competences, in business segments with high dependence on team work and also where the mobility of personnel grows and the share of employees aged up to 30 years is high.

In 2013 the MEDT of Russia estimated need of performance improvement of work, at least, by 1.5 times. The situation is complicated by the fact that in the closest years of working-age will reach the smallest generation for all post-war years – those who were born in the late nineties. It is already counted that by 2025 his representatives will make 75% of all labor power not only in Russia, but also in Europe. The problem of "staff shortage" will mention all industries. The competition for the qualified, motivated and productively working personnel becomes a key factor of success of the companies in the market. For the help to the enterprises in the organization of the comfortable and productive environment the TOPS Consulting company released the new version of the portal solution.

Today the large organizations are forced to play a role of "the second university" for the employees. The companies give to personnel opportunities to develop the talents and professional skills, will organize work on the principle of professional communities where knowledge of everyone helps growth of examination of all business, involve in discussion of strategy of the company, the current tasks and plans. The most effective environment for work on such principle are the portal solutions allowing to integrate collectives of any number and a geographically-distributed structure.

Together with access to the structured knowledge to some of the key motivating factors for high-potential employees (HiPo) an opportunity to combine corporate and personal – by the same principle as it happens in social networks is. Unlike classical the intranet portals with their impersonality and irregular updating of content, "TOPS Sotsialny the portal" allows each employee to create own mini-website with representation of the examination and hobbies, to independently select and combine news flows, to exchange experience with colleagues, to use usual on work on social networks tools of "likes" and "comments". In "personal account" of the portal it is possible to manage in real time the career development using tools of assessment and check of accomplishment of KPI, to interact with HR and financial services, to prepare for certifications or corporate training, to share interesting information with colleagues or to exchange views in the personal or corporate blog.

At the same time the company management can use a uniform communication corporate link for informing employees, the convenient instrument of feedback coupling and also the environment for adaptation of new employees and identification of opportunities of career development.

"TOPS Sotsialny the portal not just provides a common information space – it gives to employees freedom of communications and access to corporate knowledge. Irrespective of a profession and a position, in remote branch or the central office – everyone has an opportunity to realize creative potential and to increase professional competences according to strategic requirements of the company. This solution helps development of the leaders and team building capable to stand in any crisis", – Kislitsky Maxim, the director of the department of Microsoft technologies of TOPS Consulting company noted.

Considering the growing popularity of remote work – by estimates of IDC, the share of staff of the offices far off working with corporate databases and applications by 2019 will grow to 52% of the total number of the state, – in the solution "TOPS Social portal" such functions as highly protected access and an opportunity for work from mobile devices are implemented. At the heart of the solution – the newest technologies of Microsoft thanks to what the portal is easily built in the IT infrastructure which is already available in the company, with the minimum costs for integration and maintenance.

It is possible to refer rapid implementation to number of advantages of the solution "TOPS Social portal" also: the standard project can be executed in 2.5-3 months. Right after solution deployment "TOPS Sotsialny the portal" to the employees 25 ready services are available to the organization of meetings and joint work to development of career and comfortable work – from reference books, work calendars and corporate blogs before IT support, with documents.

The TOPS Social portal system is held for use in such industries as finance, retail, vertically integrated industrial holdings and construction. The interest of these industries is connected with high requirement of performance improvement of work of both individual employees, and the company in general. For example, according to the analytical agency "Finmarket", in the financial sector development on one Russian makes 61.5 thousand dollars that is 3-3.5 times lower, than in the USA, the Netherlands, Belgium or France. Among the CIS countries Russia advances Kazakhstan on this indicator.