Bring enterprise context together around the people you serve and the people who deliver the work.

Para approaches 360 experiences as an information, integration and experience problem. The appropriate source systems remain authoritative, while APIs, search, data models, portals, dashboards or applications bring the relevant information together around a defined business use case.

This can support employee experience and expertise discovery as well as customer, account, project and service visibility, depending on the organization's requirements.

A 360 view is valuable when it helps someone make a better decision or complete work with less searching across systems.

Why This Matters

Employee and customer information is usually distributed across HR, CRM, ERP, project, service and collaboration systems.

Each system may contain useful information, but the context required to make a decision often sits across several of them. An employee profile may exist in HR while skills and expertise sit in project information, collaboration spaces or other enterprise records. Similarly, a client or account may be represented across CRM, projects, service records, financial information and the people responsible for the relationship.

Without a connected view, people can spend significant time searching, reconciling information or asking colleagues for context that already exists elsewhere.

Para has implemented and designed patterns that connect employee profiles, skills, projects and client/account context with search and enterprise integration.

The objective is not necessarily to replace the underlying systems or force every data source into a single repository. Instead, Para helps define which information matters for the use case, where that information should come from, who owns it and how it should be made available through the experience.

This approach can help organizations:

• Reduce the need to search across disconnected systems.
• Improve visibility of employee skills and expertise.
• Connect people to projects, clients and areas of knowledge.
• Give teams a clearer view of client or account relationships.
• Bring service context closer to the people responsible for delivery.
• Support more informed decisions using connected enterprise information.
• Create a consistent information model across portals, search, dashboards and applications.

The underlying principle is consistent with Para's wider approach to people, process, data and technology: the experience should reflect how the organization actually works rather than simply reproducing the structure of individual source systems.

What the Work Looks Like

For employees, Para's proven foundation includes extended profiles, biography/resume information, expertise search, current projects and enterprise-system context.

A richer employee experience can bring together information such as role, expertise, skills, previous experience, current projects, clients and organizational context.

Skills and expertise can be discovered through search across roles, projects, clients and other profile attributes, allowing employees or business teams to identify relevant people based on what they know and what they are currently working on.

This creates possibilities for use cases such as:

• Finding internal expertise.
• Identifying people with relevant project experience.
• Understanding who has worked with a particular client or account.
• Discovering expertise across organizational boundaries.
• Connecting employees to relevant knowledge and projects.
• Improving collaboration by making organizational knowledge easier to discover.

For client/account context, Para has implemented integration and information-model patterns linking clients/accounts to projects and people.

This can provide a connected view of the relationships surrounding an account — for example, the people involved, projects underway, relevant service information and other enterprise context required by the business.

The reviewed evidence supports a Client 360 architecture/accelerator direction, but not a claim of a current packaged Client 360 product. This distinction should remain explicit in public-facing material.

The modern approach is therefore to define the information model, source ownership, identity, APIs, search and experience layer required for the business use case, then expose the right context through portals, dashboards or applications.

The result may be a dedicated experience, an enhanced employee portal, an account view, an enterprise-search experience, a dashboard or a capability embedded within an existing application.

Para Point of View

A 360 approach should not become an exercise in aggregating information simply because it exists.

The first question is what decision or action the user needs to make.

From there, Para can determine:

• What context is required.
• Which systems are authoritative for that information.
• How different records and identities relate.
• Which data should be exposed to which users.
• How the information should be searched or presented.
• Which APIs or integrations are required.
• How the experience should be governed and maintained.

Use case before aggregation

Start with the business decision, journey or task rather than attempting to consolidate every available data source.

Source ownership matters

A connected experience does not eliminate the need for authoritative source systems. Each important piece of information needs a clear source, owner and appropriate governance.

Context over volume

More information does not automatically create a better experience. The value comes from surfacing the right context at the right point in the user's journey.

Integration over duplication

Where possible, connect systems through appropriate integration and APIs rather than creating unnecessary copies of information.

Experience follows the model

The final experience -whether portal, search, dashboard or application - should reflect the information relationships and business use case defined during the architecture stage.

The objective is not to copy every system into one screen; it is to surface the context people need to act.

What You Get

Employee/customer 360 use-case and information blueprint

A defined view of the business use cases, audiences, information requirements, relationships and priority context that the 360 experience needs to support.

Profile, account, project and relationship data model

A structured representation of the people, accounts, projects, services and relationships relevant to the agreed use case, including the relationship between different information sources.

Expertise and enterprise-search design

Search and discovery patterns that allow users to identify relevant people, skills, projects, clients, knowledge and other enterprise information.

Source-system and integration map

A view of the systems that provide the required information, their ownership and the APIs, integrations or data connections needed to expose that context.

Role-based 360 experience concept

A view of how different users should experience the information. An employee looking for expertise, a manager reviewing a project, and an account team reviewing a client relationship may require different information and levels of access.

Modernization roadmap for APIs, search, portals and analytics

A phased path for improving the underlying integration and experience, including opportunities to modernize APIs, search, portals, dashboards and analytics where appropriate.

The exact deliverables remain dependent on the engagement. The page should not imply that every Customer & Employee 360 initiative requires a standalone platform, data consolidation project or dedicated application.

Where It Fits

This capability connects Digital Workplace, customer/partner portals, enterprise search, integration and analytics.

It can support:

• Employee experience.
• Expertise discovery.
• Account intelligence.
• Project knowledge.
• Service visibility.
• Customer and partner context.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• Management and operational decision-making.

The capability can sit across existing enterprise platforms rather than requiring a new standalone system.

For example, relevant information may remain within HR, CRM, ERP, project or service applications while the experience layer connects the information through search, APIs, integration, portals, dashboards or custom applications.

Para's broader enterprise services support this model through Microsoft 365 & SharePoint, Sitecore & Digital Experience, Data & BI, Custom Apps & APIs, Power Platform & Automation and Cloud & Integration.

This also means the capability can evolve over time. An organization may begin with a specific expertise-search or employee-profile use case and later extend the architecture to include projects, clients, services or other enterprise context.

Explore how Customer & Employee 360 can support your next enterprise initiative.

Talk to Para about the business need, current environment and the practical next step from assessment into delivery.

Whether the requirement is employee expertise discovery, connected project information, account context, customer/service visibility or a broader enterprise information experience, Para can help define the information model, integration requirements and experience needed to support it.

The path can move from use-case definition and information architecture into search, APIs, portals, dashboards, applications and ongoing support, depending on the target model.

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