The Directory of company exceeds the simple concept of directory " bottin ". It federates, and indexes all information related to the company often heterogeneous, enabling you, thus, to offer up to date, total and homogeneous information at lower cost. You will not waste any more your invaluable time to seek the co-ordinates of a person, a service or professional information with regard to them, before a telephone conversation, the sending of a mail or an appointment.

The concrete case of the modifications of station, of telephone number which make obsolete the directory paper at the end of three months, will not be any more one barrier with the dynamism and the growth and of your company.

In practice, the Directory of company appears as an essential base of work. Data-processing referencing on a Directory of company offers information to you relevant, complete, reliable, recent, and regular. They are in addition, homogeneous, in conformity with the intentions of the designers of the action, and in adequacy with the culture of founded company. Indeed, the Directory of company allows storage, the management and the diffusion of the relative data:

• persons (name, telephone, e-mail, number, date of input, photo etc),
• organisational structure (addresses, standard, logo, etc),
• functional roles (Director, Person in charge, Secretary, etc),
• network architecture (machines, configurations, etc.)

You also have a global vision of the hierarchical and protocolar structure of the company.

On a national level like international, coherent and " current " information, is disseminated through all the company immediately, at the same time and permanently.

Via this network you free yourselves from the geographical distances from the various contacts. The update can be centralized or completely delocalized.

To develop the sharing of information and the general knowledge of the organisational and human structure of the company reinforces the in-house links and makes it possible each one to better communicate with all, better to work and take part more actively in the life of the company.

The benefit are immediate. The Directory of company enables you to reduce the costs of certain unproductive administrative tasks (long search of co-ordinates, checking, time of update, etc).

Moreover, the modification of information, from the increasing mobility of people (e-mail, mobile, etc), is increasingly frequent. Thus significant economies are possible on the costs of publication, impression and diffusion of the directories papers, and other information memoranda.

The speed and the simplicity of update of information are enough to make profitable the development.

A Directory can be carried out by using very different technologies: base data relational, Minitel, autocoms, directories owners, and in particular X.500 Being the international standard in the field of the Directories of company, the adoption of X.500 allows, amongst other things, an independence with respect to the providers, an interworking with other Directories of the same type, a rise charges some in a real exploitation, the securisation and the authentification of the access and a decentralized management of a hierarchical data base.

The choice of X.500 and the standard of access protocol LDAP, it is to ensure the perenniality of its Directory.

Very often a Directory requires the installation of a specific customer application on each station and proposes only viewing screens standard, austere and fixed.

Our solution, while being based on link WXD, makes it possible to face these disadvantages. Functioning in an Internet environment / Intranet, it requires only the use of a simple Web. navigator Moreover, it makes it possible to offer a user interface simple, fast, user-friendly, interactive and ergonomic, intended for the whole of the personnel.

Choosing WXD, it is also to transform your Directory of company into genuine management tool of human resources: assignments, careers, competences and statistics personalized with the key! Without forgetting the seduction; the graphics and the interactivity of the Web, contribute to the good integration of the Directory within the company as well on the functional level as on the respect of the graphic charter and the image to convey company in term of communication.

Technically, WXD is used as link between these two worlds (X.500 / WEB) and presents the data to the user, in a constructive and clear way

Choosing WXD, it is to benefit from very advanced multicriterion search, to generate versions paper (rtf, CSV, etc), it is also to make themselves independent with respect to the platforms, free as for the choices of the tools and to reduce the deployment and costs of acquisition of the software.