Latest News: BrightWork Partner UP-GREAT Deploy pmPoint at the Cantonal Administration of Lucerne
BrightWork's first German partner, UP-GREAT in Switzerland, recently announced their successful deployment of BrightWork pmPoint as a first application within the SharePoint farm in the IT Department (DIN) of the cantonal administration of Lucerne. As an innovative solution provider and system integrator, UP-GREAT provides complete services for information, infrastructure and system management. The company, founded in 1995 and today with over 30 employees, has its headquarters in Fehraltorf near the city of Zurich.
Problem
The cantonal administration of Lucerne decided in December 2007 to follow a broad Microsoft Strategy. Besides the already existing platform strategies for Cisco, NetApp and SAP, Microsoft just fit in perfectly to complete the big picture. As an important part of that strategy, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server was chosen as a platform for various applications such as all portals (Intranet, Collaboration and Internet), document management, case management (GEVER), forms services with InfoPath and project management. In the conceptual phase for DIN it became clear, that especially for structured project management, SharePoint has not enough features that come out of the box. The goal was it had to aggregate information in project offices so the various departmental managers had one consolidated view of all their projects and status reports. Furthermore, the customer wanted to aggregate information even over site collections for top management reporting (green, yellow, red). Last but not least, it should be possible to work with project hierarchies and project room templates.
Solution
After thorough research UP-GREAT recommended a solution based on BrightWork pmPoint. No other product on the market could fulfill all the functional requirements. Unfortunately, the product was not yet available in German which was a killer criteria. So the client and UP-GREAT decided to translate the whole product to German to meet this last criteria. The translation and stabilization phase was incredibly short but successful. The customizing started after the deployment of the product. First, the templates for the used methodology HERMES were established. Second, the project hierarchy was created and with it the PMO structure. Third, the aggregation of information for top management (green, yellow, red) was developed by UP-GREAT. Fourth, the project request area was implemented with InfoPath forms services. As a last step, the aggregation over site collections came as a last feature. Since that first deployment within the IT department of the cantonal administration, BrightWork is now being used step by step in other departments as well.
Testimonial Sven Roth, Head of Unit Information Worker, UP-GREAT AG:
“BrightWork fits in perfectly in the whole IT architecture at the client site in Lucerne. It leverages the features of Microsoft SharePoint and therefore leaves the user within the well-known environment. It gives us all the tools we need to fulfill the project management needs we have. And the best thing? We can evolutionary develop the client organization from an email based project management, over a semi structured project management to a full structured project management – all with the same platform and product!”
About BrightWork
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