Jakamo has implemented Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), which allows Single Sign-On (SSO) for Jakamo Premium and Enterprise Plan customers. SSO enables user authentication process that allows users to access multiple applications with a single set of credentials. SSO simplifies the management of user credentials, both for...
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Smooth Ramp-up of a Supplier Relationship
Management of your company’s established business relationships can often be challenging. However, when starting with a completely new business partner it is becoming even more difficult. You do not yet know each other’s people, culture, processes, systems, technologies or ways of working. Therefore, in ramp-up stage of a new...
A Festival Called Slush
At the end of the hectic Slush week the Provinssi music festival published an after movie of the summer party in Törnävä in 2015. The post-festival movie brought back many feelings and memories of what an amazing event can offer to its customers. I started to wonder – what kind...
Juhani Hintikka Joins Jakamo as a Board Member and Investor
Jakamo Limited welcomes CEO and President of Comptel Plc (CTL1V) Juhani Hintikka into the team! Juhani joins Jakamo as a Board Member and Investor. “There is much discussion about every company needing to rethink their business model with the advent of digitalization. For many companies digitalization can also be...
Business Collaboration in the Networked Economy
We live in a digital age where the nature of work is radically changing. What humans were mechanically doing is now being automated by software. Tasks that used to require advance planning and a long execution time can now be done immediately with the help of online resources. Orchestration...
Jakamo Ranked Fifth on the List of 100 Hottest Startups
Awesome news from San Francisco Startup Agency! Jakamo is ranked fifth on the list of 100 hottest Finnish startups. This recognition encourages us to continue the successful work with our customers to reach together the ultimate goal – a perfect way to collaborate, share and manage information between companies....
Jakamo Wins JCI Productive Idea Competition
Jakamo has been selected as the winner of service business line in Junior Chamber International Finland’s Productive Idea Competition in Area C. The winning ideas from four Finnish regions will continue to the evaluation of a national jury. The national winner will be announced in the New Business Event of...
Mårten Mickos Joins Jakamo as an Investor and Advisor
Jakamo Limited welcomes business executive Mårten Mickos into the team! Mårten joins Jakamo as an investor and advisor. He is one of the most recognized Nordic IT executives, who has led technology companies to world-class success. “Companies need an online platform that connects suppliers and buyers on a team-to-team...
Designed with Users: Jakamo Project App
Project management is not something that you can do alone with your excel sheets in your company. Nowadays, most of the projects consist of complex value chains with multiple companies and dozens of people from different disciplines involved. Project management is all about sharing information and interacting between people...
IT’S FREE – Jakamo Launches New Pricing Model
Media Release 22 June 2015 JAKAMO LAUNCHES NEW PRICING MODEL We are happy to tell great news. Jakamo will be free to use for all companies and organizations as long as they want with unlimited number of users and relations with no charge whatsoever. This new pricing model takes place already from...
Dream B2B Ecosystem Made by Sardines
An enormous swarm of sardines swims on the coast of Africa. The sardines move extremely fluently, accurately and deliberately. The fish change their course in a blink of an eye and create beautiful artworks one after another. How is this possible? How can the sardines make this happen? And...
First Supply Chain Chat in the World
Press Release 26 May 2015, Helsinki, Finland We are proud to surprise Jakamo users with a new exclusive feature. Imagine a feature that connects you to your company’s supply chain social network. We are proud to introduce exactly this spectacular feature. Jakamo releases Supply Chain Chat, first in the...
Seinäjoki Technology Award to Jakamo
Seinäjoki Technology Award for the year 2014 has been handed to Jakamo Limited, a company focusing on cross-company information sharing. Seinäjoki Fund of Alfred Kordelin Foundation has handed out the Technology Award today. The selection criteria for the EUR 5 000 Prize include the following statement. – Jakamo Limited...
Sunk Cost Fallacy Prevents Us to Make Rational Decisions
Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli explains 99 most common thinking errors in his book The Art of Thinking Clearly. I guess that most of the companies offering radically new types of products and services are facing one of these, Sunk Cost Fallacy. Basically it means: “We have already invested so...
What Comes First, Technology or People?
In my experience, a buzz around a new technology can really get the buyers go outshopping. In many occasions through the years I have met decision makers who have recently bought a technology and now wonder what to do with it? The words used could have been something like...
Jakamo in the World of ‘Internet of Organizations’
Internet of Things (IoT) is now on the crest of a wave in the current discussion of digitalization while the importance of the social media seems to be decreasing particularly as a managerial tool for B2B relationships. Nevertheless, these two phenomena represent certain extremes in the wider digitalization sphere...
Cutting Costs or Driving Value Creation?
On my last posting I took the liberty to define Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) as a method to utilize the knowhow of your partner companies and optimize the resource utilization in your supply chain to increase end customer value. I am waiting for someone to propose a shorter definition,...
Jakamo – One of the Most Promising Startups in Finland
Great news! Jakamo has been awarded with a place on the list of 20 most promising Finnish startups by Talouselämä. We’re really thankful for this recognition. An expert jury assigned by Talouselämä newpaper selected a list of 20 most promising startup companies in Finland for the fourth time. The jury...
Collaboration Fuels the Value Chain
Deloitte has released an extensive report Collaborative economy (2014). According to the report “Collaboration is employees communicating and working together, building on each others’ ideas to produce something new or do something differently.” The main findings of the report state, that in Australia, collaborative economy is worth 46 billion...
Article: Strategic Capability Architecture
Strategic capability architecture: The role of network capability. A firm’s network capability refers to its ability to build, handle and exploit relationships. Research article by Jukka Vesalainen (co-founder of Jakamo) and Henri Hakala demonstrates that these capabilities are interwoven in a complex configuration with the other capabilities and competencies...
Supply Chain Collaboration. Another Buzzword Or Something Else?
Cost reduction. Now there’s a pair of words you’ve heard a lot since last decade no matter with which function you’re working with in a business. I don’t really like the saying since it has a negative tone in it and is a kind of a signal that we...
We Love Our Users
Christmas time is the right moment to write you something about love and how much we love our users. Many companies state that they are customer-oriented. So do we. We took it so seriously that we placed the customer in the middle of our organisation. The customer (user) is...
Jakamo Is Designed with and for People
We are working every day together with our users for designing exceptional user experiences and making Jakamo users’ life easier. Take a look on Timo’s visual presentation of User Experience Design in Jakamo and learn how we do it. UX Design in Jakamo – Timo Rossi 5 DEC 2014 from...
Jarl Matti on Stage at Taivas+Helvetti
We had the privilege of presenting Jarl Matti‘s individual story on stage at Taivas+Helvetti. Taivas+Helvetti (Heaven+Hell) is a fast spreading phenomenon in Finland introducing different entrepreneur stories. The stories are written in two books and also introduced in professionally arranged events. Please check out pics (photos Anssi Kumpula) below...
Kauppalehti Optio: Helping the Net of Relations
Helping the Net of Relations KAUPPALEHTI OPTIO 17 / 2014, 30 OCT 2014 Pages 46-47 Text: Jenny Jännäri Photo: Lauri Olander
The Nature of Business Relation
Business relations have existed as long as there has been business between people. The first business relation was established when someone sold something to another person. The phenomenon of business relationship is old but the understanding of it still remains insufficient despite of positive development in the past decades....
Free Jakamo Accounts for Education and Research Organisations
PRESS RELEASE: Free Jakamo Accounts for Education and Research Organisations 23 October 2014, Seinäjoki, Finland Jakamo Limited announced free Jakamo licenses for all education and research organisations. Jakamo service as a cross-company cooperation platform has also become a significant solution for many universities. Research groups typically use Jakamo in...
Jakamo on the List of the Hottest Startups
Encouraging news! We are on the list of the hottest startups from Finland. Awesome! http://startup100.net
Change perspective – find new customers
How did the iPad find its way to the workplaces? I remember myself buying an iPad for personal use to read books, listen to music and podcasts and surf the web. Later on I found out that it would be a great tool to use at work, especially when...
Talouselämä: Jakamo Expands Rapidly
See the article of Jakamo in Talouselämä 35 / 2014. http://summa.talentum.fi/article/te/98253