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Published on 27.09.2021
The “digital marketplace” buzzword has been making the rounds on the Internet for quite some time now, although it has mostly been associated with e-Commerce solutions until now. It works in the following way here: Vendors are connected to the online marketplace via plug-ins and can sell their products there. This is generally not seen by customers, who can order from various vendors via a single shop interface.
Spoiler alert: This principle also works really well for employee communications platforms! In this article, you can find out how exactly this works with COYO and how you can upgrade your social Intranet right now.
Plug-ins as an interface
The marketplace concept is based on plug-ins that extend the functionality of our existing software. They represent an interface that enables the connection of third-party systems, which can be accessed via the Widget feature in COYO. Or, simply put: Plug-ins make third-party system functionalities available on your employee communications platform without sending users to another tool or to another interface. If you wish to delve deeper into the topic of plug-ins, we recommend that you take a look at our blog article here: “It’s a Match: Extending COYO with plug-ins”. In it, we explain exactly how you can extend your COYO using plug-ins. The “Plug-in, add-on or Launchpad – what’s the best option for my COYO?” article goes one step further and outlines the differences between add-ons, plug-ins and the COYO Launchpad.
What is the COYO Marketplace and what does it offer?
The COYO Marketplace enables you to extend your COYO with just a few clicks by choosing from a multitude of pre-configured plug-ins that add many different features and integrations. And what are the benefits of these features and functions for your employee communications platform? For one, they most certainly draw the attention of your colleagues and in this way increase their engagement – and this can have a positive impact on the motivation and productivity of your co-workers in the long run. Sounds like a win-win, doesn’t it?
By the way, behind our COYO Marketplace you will find a growing community of software developers and independent technology partners who continuously release new plug-ins, thereby increasing the value of your COYO investment.
Why are we building a marketplace?
We want you to be able to fully customize your COYO according to the specific needs of your co-workers – and we want this process to be as flexible and easy as possible, without any lengthy and complex procedures. This is why, effective immediately, we are making all plug-ins developed by COYO or by our partners available to you on the COYO Marketplace.
Discover the possibilities!
The COYO Marketplace serves as the first stop for obtaining an overview of the available plug-ins and their prices, but it is also intended as an inspiration for coming up with potential new extensions, features and tools that make your social Intranet even better.
Make a wish!
The Marketplace also offers COYO customers the possibility to submit requests and ideas. Keep in mind that on average it takes half the time to develop a plug-in compared to developing a new standard feature. You can now make sure that your wishes don’t remain unattainable dreams and have your requests implemented quickly thanks to our many plug-in creators and technology partners. In other words, you can pick the right extension for your COYO from a wide choice of suppliers or make suggestions for new plug-ins.
Marketplace navigation
To make the COYO Marketplace as easy to navigate as possible, we have classified our plug-ins according to use cases and topics, which means that you can filter plug-ins based entirely on your needs to decide which would create the most added value for your organization. For example, you can filter plug-ins via keywords such as “Social media”, “HR management”, or “Webcasting” and “Video”, but also search for things like “Interactive tools”.
The benefits at a glance
Improved engagement
The COYO Marketplace offers you powerful and sophisticated plug-ins that make it extremely straightforward to implement new functions and integrations to keep things fresh on your Intranet and to improve the engagement of your co-workers.
Optimized user experience
The COYO Marketplace makes it possible to design your social Intranet just the way your users want it: You can add new functions and integrations and start using them right away with a single click.
Maximum flexibility
The COYO Marketplace enables your organization to respond to new requirements rapidly and with minimum extra project costs. You can now adapt your employee communications platform at short notice and upgrade it with new features.
Increased productivity
The multitude of plug-ins on the COYO Marketplace gives you the opportunity to make your company Intranet more relevant and lastingly improve the motivation of your colleagues. The result: More intense use of your Intranet, improved engagement and increased productivity of your co-workers.
Are you interested in a plug-in from the COYO Marketplace?
Great – we appreciate it! Here you can find a complete overview of all plug-ins that we currently offer. By clicking on a plug-in of your choice, you get more detailed information about its functionality and can fill out our contact form to get in touch with a COYO plug-in expert who will be happy to answer all of your questions about your individual use case.
Important: COYO plug-ins can be integrated into COYO only for customers who have at least Release Version 37, and they are currently available for COYO Cloud and COYO Private Cloud.
What have we learned?
The marketplace concept can be applied not just to e-Commerce, but also to your employee communications platform. As we all know from 2020, the requirements for internal communications can change very quickly – which makes it all the more important to be able to respond flexibly and rapidly to new needs, situations and to what staff want. With the COYO Marketplace, you can integrate new features and tools that your co-workers really need spontaneously and without any hassle to improve engagement and boost productivity, while performing an immediate upgrade to your company communications.
