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Adobe's ColdFusion technology- a proprietary tool was used to host the intranet for a Pharmaceutical company. The company with over 28000+ employees across the globe had the pressing need of improving visibility to ensure smooth information flow between departments. Using the proprietary tool did not give enough flexibility to the users and administrators. With lack of Content Management System capability, intranet content update was taking longer. Employees had a hard time to locate content due to lack of search capability. Updates and information lost their credibility as they were not timely. Communication and collaboration tools are the backbone to work together with teams and colleagues spread across the globe. Due to absence of real time communication, efficiency and productivity is affected across organization. As the existing intranet was built on proprietary tool, it proved very expensive given the ongoing licensing and maintenance cost. Additionally, in order to interface with external applications, IT team had to go out of the way to coordinate with both the parties to integrate them. Analyzing business challenges and requirements, adoption of Liferay as the portal solution was recommended by leading Open Source System Integrator CIGNEX Datamatics. The IT team did an extensive research on available technologies in addition to Liferay as recommended. Team shortlisted on Liferay as a choice forbuilding their new intranet portal enabled with features of web content management system. Liferay portal with its web 2.0 features for richer end-user experience through simplified content management & extensive search capabilities. The new Liferay based portal with the ease of use, received wider user acceptance quickly across the enterprise leading to an increase in number of quality visits. Users could easily locate information with minimum clicks making information available at finger tips. Features like Single-sign-on & web 2.0 were the highlights of the system. Partnering with solution provider CIGNEX Datamatics helped the company to streamline their content while improving its quality. The new portal provided an edge with its features of content management & workflow resulting in fast turnaround time. With Access Control Lists (ACLs), user groups were defined which made the managing and updating content easier. With implementation of Liferay Portal, maintenance and integration costs were reduced substantially. You can know more about Liferay support solutions at www.cignex.com
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