Document Management Portal - A customized MOSS 2007 solution

The customer’s business generated a huge number of documents every day, with a variety of multiple applications and ad hoc mechanisms in place for document management function. The customer approached Mindfire Solutions for an end-to-end solution to his existing problems and foreseeable needs. Mindfire understood the customer’s perspective, a clear need for an IT investment leading to a positive ROI and low cost of ownership – a solution leading to better managed information, increased productivity of users and reduced costs, by building a core document management function which is central, secure, easy to restore and supports easy versioning, searching, sharing, and collaboration. Mindfire analyzed requirements, recommended feasible solutions, helped in decision-making, before developing the final solution based on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007, which further benefited the customer with a natural ease to implement business workflows.

Client Description: Chocolate Confectionery Company

Client Location: Luxemburg, Belgium

Industry: FMCG

The customer had clear issues with existing ways to manage various different documents, ad hoc measures with multiple applications, rules, and measures in places, which caused reduced productivity, time spent on unnecessary activities, and crucial business knowledge kept with individuals rather than the systems in place. Mindfire analyzed the requirements, found a suitable solution as the development of an extranet document management portal based on MOSS 2007 to help the customer to migrate, maintain, view, and search the documents based on user permissions. Mindfire responded to customer’s resolve to migrate to the new system within a tight timeframe, with a strong commitment to delivery of final test release (for training purposes), thereby succeeding production release.