About JPCircles

The JPCircles application ideally lives on the JPMorgan intranet and internet. JPCircles increases efficiency and trust in company communication by connecting employees on a social and corporate level. The application allows employees to form groups based on interests and work relations, acting as a hub for communication from across office to cross continent. Communication channels include alumni, contract/freelancers, employees and management.

Activities include checking group updates, meetings, calendars, and forums, searching for groups, adding new groups, and inviting other employees to join groups. The groups also provide a list of all group members and a link to their phonebook page as well as a visualization of the internal relationship of the group members to each other.

The JPCircles application is integrated with existing JPMorgan technologies. For example, a JPCircles news feed widget lives on the employee’s JPMorgan intranet homepage to provide daily reminders and serve as an access point to the JPCircles homepage. The application also encourages use of the JPMorgan phonebook. All contact information used in the application is provided by the phonebook and all member profiles link the user directly to phonebook profiles.

JPCircles Interface Demos

1. The "new" guy (link) - In this demo John is a new employee of JPMorgan in NYC and would like to use JPCircles to help him meet some of his new co-workers. He starts out from his JPMorgan intranet homepage. Through the JPCircles news widget on his intranet homepage he can navigate to his JPCircles homepage, where he finds a picture of himself. John is currently not a member of any groups and begins a search for groups by entering "New York" in the search box. He is then given the top 10 most relevant search results. John thinks the New York Running Club sounds like something he would be interested in and clicks on its circle, which navigates him to the New York Running Club homepage. The homepage contains a variety of useful features to help the members connect. He also notices that when he scrolls over the group members (only the top group member link is currently working) he can have quick access to their contact info or click on the phone icon and navigate to their more detailed phonebook page. He decides to join the group and circle representing the group is added to his JPCircles homepage. He can now access the group directly from his home page. John can also update his own phonebook info from JPCircles by clicking on the "Edit Profile" link in the upper right hand corner.

2. Management (link) - Lisa an IT manager and would like to form a group that connects Java developers across their many offices. She navigates to her JPCircles homepage and clicks on the "create a group" link in the upper left hand corner. She is then brought to the form used to create a group. This short demo is intended to demonstrate some of the criteria involved when forming a group.

3. Alumni (link) - Luke is a former JPMorgan employee and would like to remain connected with his former colleagues. He enters JPCircles through the JPCircles Remote site hosted on the internet. To gain access he needs to enter a username and password (any username and password will currently work for demo purposes.) This is a short demo to represent the how alumni, freelancers/contractors, or employees at home may access the internet from a remote site. We envision that users of the remote site may have limited access and capabilities. For example, freelancers/contractors cannot create groups and may have limited access to what information is available to them.