YASH developed a solution based on a range of Microsoft products for cost efficiencies and fit with the company’s existing IT infrastructure and skill set. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server was a clear choice for its rich collaboration features.
YASH Implemented SharePoint Solution to Connect Employees to Critical Business Information
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Microsoft SharePoint Success Story @ YASH
Customized Web-based Application Solution
Increases Efficiency for Steel Giant
Industry The Client
Manufacturing The client is a leading global producer of flat rolled steel. They are the only West Coast
steel supplier to manufacture five different product lines: hot rolled, pickled and
oiled, galvanized and cold rolled sheet, and electric resistance welded pipe. With 2007
Geography revenues of $1.2 billion, their steel is used for thousands of private and commercial
building products.
USA
2. Overwhelmed IT Department Created Operational Inefficiencies
As a technology savvy organization, the client has invested demand comes largely from the manufacturers of durable
more than $500 million in their facilities to maintain, goods like motor vehicles, machinery, containers, and
modernize, and add operations since its inception in 1984. construction. The profitability of individual companies
They have seen the business benefits of being virtually well depends largely on efficient operations, because most
connected with partners and customers, and wanted to products are commodities sold based on price. This
extend that commitment to its internal IT department, who inefficiency led the company to seek a partner with in-depth
was becoming increasingly overwhelmed with manual experience in Microsoft technologies to develop an
employee request tracking processes. Slow turnaround time automated request tracking process, and then make it
and duplication of efforts caused loss of valuable time and available to employees online quickly.
resources for both the IT team and the requesters. They chose YASH Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified
In the highly competitive steel manufacturing industry, Partner, to execute this critical solution.
“Office SharePoint Server has tremendous business value as an empowering collaboration technology. YASH enabled us to
unlock its complete value, by focusing on helping users adopt the technology in a meaningful way, improving
productivity dramatically.”
—CIO
YASH Implemented SharePoint Solution to Connect Employees to Critical Business Information
YASH developed a solution based on a range of Microsoft management into the overall portal platform. In addition,
products for cost efficiencies and fit with the company’s the solution integrated with the company’s existing
existing IT infrastructure and skill set. Microsoft Office enterprise resource planning system, so crucial business
SharePoint Server was a clear choice for its rich documents were automatically sent to the correct folders on
collaboration features. YASH built a customized web-based the company’s servers. Employees could scan all paper
application solution that integrated with client-specific documents the IT department received to create archived
workflows and InfoPath forms, and custom email electronic copies, and the system would send these to the
notifications and dashboard features. Users would be able to correct locations as well. After the system went live, YASH
take advantage of the extensive search capabilities to outlined a system support engagement as part of an
quickly and easily find the information they need. application maintenance service and currently supports
Housed internally in the company’s IT department, the this system.
SharePoint sites allowed access to services with single sign- Client-specific SharePoint components that were
on authentication. When an IT user logged on, they saw implemented included:
three default views with the latest employee requests, and Custom lists and request forms
used the enterprise search feature to quickly find any
information that is requested. Approval workflows
Email notifications
SharePoint features connected the employees to
information and important business resources with a Role-based dashboards
powerful authoring framework that simplified content User profile services
contribution. Centrally managed site design, publishing, and Event handlers for service requests and projects
deployment capabilities seamlessly integrated cutting-edge with role-based permissions
Technology Component
MS Windows Server 2003 MS SQL Server 2005
MS Office SharePoint Server 2007 MS Internet Explorer 6.0
MS SharePoint Designer 2007 MS .NET Framework 3.0
MS IIS 6.0 MS Visual Studio 2005
