Case Studies

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Contract Workflow and Document Management System

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta had a home-grown, inefficient contract review system. Document reviews were local with redlined documents being reloaded, and there was no version tracking. Notifications were generated via email, making it difficult to track the process, and the system offered no views that facilitated reports or detail level status evaluation.

 

Metametrix Employs 'Best Practices' Project Management with SharePoint 2010 and EPM Live

After 25 years in operation, Metametrix Clinical Laboratory had reached the point of pain with project management. Projects were costly in terms of resources and capital expenditures, yet there was no system for integrated, company-wide monitoring and management of projects and workflows. From R&D projects in the laboratories to marketing efforts, Metametrix could not track project requests, priorities and progress. "We had a long list of congruent projects happening in their own bubbles," says Metametrix Director of Information Technology Dave Kuehling. "We had overlapping resources and spent a lot of time backtracking."

 

RPC Gains Visibility, Enhanced Team Knowledge and Business Value with SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

RPC was first introduced to Abel Solutions in 2007 when they sought guidance on upgrading from a rigid, outdated intranet to SharePoint (SP) 2007. Although the company chose to use in-house resources to perform what proved to be a lengthy migration process, their relationship with Abel Solutions as a trusted partner continued to develop with Abel Solutions receiving subsequent invitations to perform proof-of-concept tests and assist with other projects.

 

Landis+Gyr SharePoint Quality Control Dashboard

Landis+Gyr, in their continued commitment to quality, was orchestrating a global expansion of the Quality Monitoring system used in its North American operations. As part of the project, the firm had a vision of incorporating an advanced, automated SharePoint dashboard for its CAPAs (corrective and preventative actions), where previously the firm had used a manually tabulated dashboard built in Microsoft Excel. The new dashboard would support all the firm's regions, with global and regional views for different users of the system.

 

Centralized Systems Further Humanitarian Causes: An Abel Solutions Development Case Study

CARE had previously migrated from a basic data portal (used since 2000) to Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) 3.0, running a pilot program in Sudan and eventually rolling out WSS to 20+ locations. In fall 2006, Microsoft donated Enterprise 2003 licenses to CARE, making it feasible to transition to the more powerful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.

 

Transitioning Georgia System Operations Corporation to SharePoint in the Cloud

Like many firms, Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) suffered from productivity challenges due to isolated and inconsistent document storage, access and routing solutions that had been cobbled together over time. Personnel needed more effective and in some cases customized document management, collaboration and workflows but the current systems were incapable of handling them.

 

Industrial Developments International (IDI) Provides Investors with Easy Access to Due Diligence and Financial Information

To flourish in a slow economy, IDI had shifted some of its focus from property development to investment management, putting funds of properties together for investors and helping manage those funds for them. As such, IDI found itself with the need to externally publish a substantially greater amount of due diligence, research and financial data to keep clients apprised regarding their investments.

 

North Highland Accelerates Employee Onboarding with SharePoint

Coming out of the economic downturn, North Highland saw signs in the second half of 2009 that their business was going to quickly pick up. Where they had historically on-boarded 50-60 affiliates during a typical quarter, current sales logs were forecasting staffing up to 200 contractors over a 90-day period – and potentially crippling their revenue management department where contractor management is performed..

 

Chatham County Improves Engineering Services Process with Records Management Pilot Project

In 2007, the Association County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG) conducted a survey on records management for county governments across the state. The universal issue that emerged was how to effectively manage the process of capturing, storing, protecting, and producing county records. In December 2008, ACCG teamed up with Microsoft, Abel Solutions, KnowledgeLake, and Fujitsu to develop two demonstration projects to showcase integrated records management solutions. Chatham County was invited to participate in this opportunity and chose to work with the Microsoft® Records Management Preferred Partner Program. With its new Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server–based solution, the county now has improved its ability to access key documents, streamlined operational workflow, and introduced greater transparency into the records management process for both county employees and taxpayers.

 

Nucor Steel Memphis Implements Quality Management System With SharePoint

A document repository and management system centered on SharePoint houses all existing documents relating to ISO quality processes, including control documents and records, internal audits, training documents and corrective/preventative (CAR/PAR) action requests.

 

Catlin Group Limited Facilitating Regulatory Compliance With SharePoint

A centralized forms library accessible by both employees and client underwriters in the field serves as the cornerstone of the SharePoint solution and facilitates their desire to streamline compliance with regulatory and governmental requirements.

 

Dawson County Expands Services, Cuts Costs with Hosted Records Management Solution

The Dawson County pilot proved the concept that a small-to-medium sized Georgia County can automate its records management processes at a reasonable cost, and maybe even lay the foundation for a completely interoperable family of county processes and information resources.

 

Retaining and Sharing Acquired Knowledge Through Custom Knowledge Base Solutions

By implementing a solution that aggregated the firm’s expertise and intellectual property, the solution made the information more readily available and helped reduce the risk of losing important knowledge when field experts departed the firm.

 

Skylight Financial, Inc. on a Fast Track to SharePoint Deployment

Using the FastPortal methodology, Abel Solutions deployed a SharePoint portal for Skylight Financial in fewer than four weeks, minimizing disruption and giving them system-wide improvements almost immediately.

 

Management Consulting Firm SharePoint Account and Project Team Portal

Consultants who had previously relied on file servers and emails for information sharing among project teams now find all documents, deliverables, schedules, notations and contact lists, archived in a central repository, where the system retrieves them as needed for usage at pre-authorized permission levels.

 

Boys & Girls Clubs of America Family PLUS SharePoint Website

With its user-friendly, exciting and interactive SharePoint site, familyplus.bgca.org, BGCA is able to share a significant pool of resourceful information with more than 4,000 Club organizations and the general public.

 

Boys & Girls Clubs of America YouthNet (My Club My Life) SharePoint Website

A vibrant, public-facing SharePoint-based portal designed around the YouthNet concept and target audience allows staff to edit and stage new content including polls and surveys as needed while permitting members to personalize pages and share content.

 

Global Consumer Products Company SharePoint Quality Control Management System

With document management and workflow processes unified into a single SharePoint site, users can submit a change request to their quality management system and have it automatically routed to the appropriate department for evaluation and modification.

 

Global Consumer Products Company SharePoint Code of Business Conduct Review Portal

Employee requests previously submitted to Ethics & Compliance via such informal channels as phone or email are now entered through a secure portal that automatically generates and manages the appropriate chain of command, tracks the life span and establishes viewing permissions.

 

Jamestown Properties SharePoint Document Management System

A seamless document migration process brought support their business intelligence initiative and helped relieve this organization of their old flat-file system and present them with more effective storage, search and retrieval of both active and archived real estate property documents dating back more than 25 years.

 

Lane Company SharePoint Due Diligence System

A Due Diligence Portal employs a re-usable, centralized SharePoint template and site provisioning process for capturing all the information related to each real estate development and acquisition project. External partners, employees and management now have a unified communications platform, with easy access to reliable and up-to-date information.

 

Global Conglomerate SharePoint Commercial Real Estate Management Portal

SharePoint eliminates the reliance on spreadsheets and gives project team members around the world a single location where they can find all project-based information. Conversion of project forms to electronic format in InfoPath ensures employees always have the latest versions of forms and that no forms are submitted with invalid or missing information.

 

John Wieland Homes SharePoint Corporate Portal

Abel Solutions’ FastPortal™ helped this real estate company replace their legacy intranet system and get up and running quickly with SharePoint. By leading their project team through implementation of one or more key components in the system, Abel Solutions has helped prepare their internal IT staff to deploy additional SharePoint sites.

 

Silverton Bank Transaction Processing and Notification System

Scalable, secure, Web-based system offers community banks a totally paperless system for electronic transaction clearing, receipt (advice) and statement presentation, Office of Foreign Asset Compliance (OFAC) tracking and other processing.