"From-the-ground-up" design of a national intranet at construction risk management-oriented insurance company - as a front-end to SharePoint platform.

Challenges

Allied had grown recently through acquisition. They needed to provide a corporate intranet in order to service their offices.

• Gather informational & service collateral
• Organize & guide the design process
• Reconcile look & feel across multiple organizational units
• Integrate functionality
• Reinforce entrerprise identity

Allied had a strong need for an easily manageable Content Management System. They selected Sharepoint as their platform.

Solutions

Out solutions needed to be easily integrated within the Sharepoint platform.

Provided a clickable site model that conformed to the workflow, allowed stakeholders to sign-off on the experience, and served as design guide for the development team.

In terms of style, we kept it simple - The "look" had to be seamless with the presentation capabilities of Sharepoint.

We provided a branding and styling based on Allied's established style guides.

Sharepoint could provide structured access to data tables, but the client also needed to easily "micro publish" a corporate newsletter. We provided a set of easily editable templates - along with "styling" elements that allowed them to customize and add a little flair to the content.

We advised on content management strategies

Intranet Wireframes, Stylesheet

CMS Solution: Adobe's Contribute allowed the primary client stakeholder to easily edit and manage updateable content on the site through a set of well-designed templates. She's now very self-sufficient - and happy.

Employee Self-service Intranet, Site structure & page templates, Sharepoint integration, client-driven content management & publishing tools, artwork & branding, CSS stylesheets & information architecture, telecommute, content management