SolidWorks:HEARD! - Episode 436 - Kenesto Community
/Kenesto Community:
This podcast covers the free Kenesto Community, a cloud service that brings business process workflow and social interactivity into one hosted community. Kenesto came on the radar a couple years ago at SWW 2012 but was still under beta at the time. Topics covered:
- What does Kenesto Community do?
- What are the costs of the business plans and what do they offer?
- The feature list and how it blends workflow with social.
- Use cases and highlights
- Overall impressions
I had heard about Kenesto in the early months before SolidWorks World 2012 in San Diego, CA and that Mike Payne, long time CAD pioneer, was taking the PLM and business process automation (BPA) to the cloud. The early promises were to take the infrastructure load off of customers and centralize this automation in the cloud.
I first saw the product at their booth in the SolidWorks World Partner Pavillion where I got a demo and a more concise description of their goals and product roadmap. Since then the product fell off my radar since the launch was not quick and it appeared that the beta was going to take some time. However, earlier this year there was a shift when Kenesto brought on Steve Bodnar from Autodesk to head up products and marketing.
This year (2013) they are now expanding upon their hosted workflow and integrating a social layer and "Freemium" model to get users familiar with the service. Kenesto offers collaboration and discussion around tasks, documents, workflows, links, forms and a number of other aspects important to project/process management.
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