Overview
- County or Region: United States
- Industry: Services
- Customer Profile:
Turner Enterprises (TEI) was created in 1976 to manage Ted Turner’s private
landholdings. TEI currently manages Turner’s bison herd and over two million
acres of Turner’s land in multiple states and abroad.
- Business Situation:
TEI needed a standard way to manage department views as well as a centralized repository
for document management.
- Solution:
With the help of Innovative Architects, Turnerverse was created. Turnerverse is
a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server based intranet solution utilizing Microsoft
SQL Server and the .Net framework.
- Benefits:
Consistent corporate image
Centralized area for sharing and working cooperatively.
Eases user workloads
Customized portal for ease of use
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Case Study
- Situation
In order to minimize Intranet deployment costs, Ted Turner Enterprises (TEI) needed
to implement an important program to standardize its widespread and diverse Intranet
presence on a single platform. Based on the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server,
.NET Framework, and SQL Server, TEI's new solution delivers a consolidated platform
that can be used to rapidly add intranet content. In addition, this solution can
aggregate information from multiple sources, both internal and external, to provide
a unified branded information delivery website.
- Solution
More than simply a static list of links, TEI extended Turnerverse to be a dynamic
information delivery portal. The goal was to centralize all critical information
for TEI employees and make it available in one place. Before this project, such
information was available on several intranet websites, or in shared or public folders,
depending on the department. With this solution, TEI was able to gather all information
from several departments - legal, IT, PR, Finance, ebusiness – in one place.
(Actual website: Turnerverse)
In addition, having a centralized repository for business knowledge was very important
to TEI. Internal users starting or continuing a project no longer need to start
from scratch and can now benefit from previous knowledge – learning from others'
mistakes and capitalizing on previous successes.
Information on Turnerverse includes HR, Finance, Property Locations, and IT policies
and procedures. Areas such as security, instructions on how to set up Internet sites,
surveys, informational documents explaining specific technologies, internal information
such as meeting notes and a company wide directory.
- Benefits
Common area for sharing and working cooperatively
Turnerverse is currently receiving very positive feedback from all employees using
the tool. Several other groups within TEI now hope to extend Turnerverse to include
more information. Having a common area for sharing information and working cooperatively
is an important business challenge for diverse companies like TEI.
The solution offers two key benefits to TEI:
Eases users’ workloads – First, it eases users' workloads and
thus makes them more efficient and productive.
Better corporate community overall – The solution addresses the communication
and collaboration needs of TEI Intranet worldwide, which in turn will help to create
a better corporate community.
- Software and Services
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft .Net Framework
• Innovative Architects, LLC
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