Wunderkraut

Integrating Collaboration Tools for European Commision

The Challenge As the executive body of the European Union, the European Commission is made up of various departments and services. In fact, every policy domain has its own department or ‘Directorate-General’. One of these 33 DG’s is the Directorate-General for Informatics or DIGIT. Or, as they say, the IT service of the EC. DIGIT's primary task To ensure that the Commission is able to realise its policy objectives by making effective and efficient use of information and communication technology. In order to properly oversee the digital transformation of the EC, DIGIT performed an internal investigation into the integration of collaboration tools with their current Drupal 7 platform. Yet, despite these efforts, more intensive analysis and in-depth study were needed. To this end, they searched for and found Wunderkraut. And DIGIT didn't even have to leave the ‘capital of Europe’ to find them. This became the first cooperation between the two parties and, most certainly, not the last. The Solution Social software solutions on the work floor The request from DIGIT was clear: compare different collaboration tools with respect to their ability to be integrated into the public Drupal 7 sites of the European institutions. Collaboration tools are social software solutions which can significantly improve the communication on the work floor. Their benefits are well known: more efficient collaborations, the ability to consult with others in real-time, the provision of knowledge and the centralisation of data. And so it went.