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Visiomeca.com

Information, promotion and trade opportunities for

SMEs

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Rhône-alpes mechanical industry

• 50 % of the total number of industrial companies• Mainly a subcontracting activity• First mechanical region in France• Skill oriented rather than market oriented

• The main markets in which mechanical industry is involved– Automobile– Aeronautics and space– Food– Industrial equipment– Health– Environment– Energy

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A plan to promote mechanical industry

• 1998 : strategic study of the mechanical sector• 2001 : Visiomeca is launched• end 2002 : more than 1500 companies are

concerned with the plan

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Visiomeca programme

• The mechanical plan Visiomeca has three major goals:

– Promotion of the companies of Rhone-Alps. – Stimulation of the trade between French and European

major clients and the companies of Rhone-Alps. – It is based on a partnership between the Rhone-Alps

region, the French state, the professional organisations ( trade union Chamber of Rhone-Alps metallurgy, union of mechanics industries…), the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Rhone-Alps and the technical centres gathered within the ACTRA.

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18 projects in three years

• Markets surveys.• Promotion on special events.• Website.• Business travel• Industrial Cluster.• Training and consultancy in Innovation process and

Partnership development.• Diagnostic of the needs of 600 companies

• A global budget of 15 M€ for 3 years

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Visiomeca network

• Putting together all the players concerned by industrial development– Chamber of Commerce and Industry– Professional associations– Technical Centres– Regional Council– Ministry of Industry

• Both at a regional level and a local level– regional co-ordination: five people– local action : fifty people with projects leaders

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Internet and Visiomeca

• give to the visiomeca network a tool to better work– Store common information– Manage projects

• promote and develop our companies business– Promote Rhone-Alpes industrial offer– Disseminate information to company– Help companies to doing business

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Visiomeca.net

• Private internet community

• Secure project spaces with calendar and document management system

• Quickplace of Lotus Notes

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visiomeca.com

• Project Launched in June 2001• Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the

project leader• An overall budget of 500 K€ for 3 years including 280

K€ of external costs (software development, marketing and communication)

• First online publication in March 2002

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Visiomeca.com user spaces

• Visitors space– A showroom of the web site

• Rhone-Alpes companies space– A personal space to show the company offer on its markets

• Clients space– A personal space to identify and contact companies and to

promote business opportunities

• Market animators space– A space to update market space with information and

companies

• Administrator space (BackOffice)– Co-ordination of the web site

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Main functions of the BackOffice

• Information management– Upload and download documents, create, modify and delete

data

• Rights and services management– Create, delete and modify members– Change the rights of members– Change the definition of each user space

• Marketing– Publish a Quality questionnaire– Visitors statistics– Mailling

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A short tour in visiomeca.com

• Visitors– Visitors can read selected news, events, dossiers, market survey,

links

– Access to simplified data on companies

• Rhone-Alps Companies– Publish, Read and Answer to market call for offer

– Propose events

– Presentation of products in a virtual showroom

– Search the companies database

– Get information (news, events, market information)

– Take contact with a market expert

• Clients– Publish call for offer

– Select companies which fit to their needs and send a mail

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Further developments

• Need of new services– On profile push information services– GroupWare for partnership– Links with market places

• Need of productivity improvement– Make the updating of each company space easier by linking

the portal to their own website– Offer more more information on markets

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the Aesop project

• Aesop is a new concept of portal (Architectural Environnements foir Smart Organisation Portals)based on Javaportlet technology

• Aesop provide to users– Secure working space to share information and to access to

high added value expert information.– Digital signature services to secure space and transactions

• Aesop is a European research project within the Fifth Framework IST Program

• Aesop partners are : Bologna CCI, Stutgart CCI, Rhone-Alps CCI, Fraunhoffer Institut, Deutsch Telekom, University of Newcastle, ARDEMI

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Objectives of the three pilots

• Rhone-Alps pilot– Use secure spaces to creating partnership between SMEs

• Bologna pilot– Use secure spaces to deliver high added value information

services

• Stuttgart pilot– Use secure spaces to manage training evaluation

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First prototype of AESOP