It gives me great pleasure to announce that last week we completed the final stage of launching JConnect, the partner portal for our JPs.

This has been a significant project within CJ and has involved a truly cross functional team both within CJ and from the broader Ci too. I would like to thank the teams involved who have worked diligently to ensure we could launch a fantastic resource for our partners. This has not been an easy process for the teams as we have been demanding in certain areas and have created a number of ‘firsts’ within Ci with regards to our login page and registration process.

As I look forward to the coming months and driving the adoption of the tools at our JPs it would be remiss of me not to celebrate the effort involved by the following –

• Venkatesh Subramanian for his drive to see this over the line.
• Mickey Singh and team for driving through the choice of LMS platform and for converting our legacy powerpoints into usable online training courses.
• Lily Wong for stepping up to the plate immediately on joining and driving through the completion of portal and for keeping us all on track with content.
• Katie Walker & Barry Penner for enabling the integration with Knowledge base and for making this such a valuable resource with new content.
• All the various content owners within CJ who have been hounded by Lily to get their content in the right format on time.
• Jasper Connect has leveraged the foundational Information Services and Application design from the Sales Connect initiative. These are provided by five teams from the Connected Selling Experience IT (CSE-IT) organization led by Bailey Szeto. Their contribution was instrumental for success. Raj Pradhan program managed the Ci IT work and guided us through the maze of Ci standards. Prem Malhotra, Monique LeFors Edmondson, Shilpa Sardar, and Mani Kasiviswanathan provided timely guidance and support to get us the solution we desired.
• Alec Boyle from the Integration project who has guided, steered and searched for funding on our behalf.

And all those too numerous to mention who have developed, QA’d content and training, hosted, designed, created graphics and other items to help us get over the line. It has been a true team effort and I thank you all.