Customer Case Studies - Government of Montenegro

BrightWork's newest partner, Spinnaker New Technologies, recently announced their successful deployment of BrightWork Reporter in the Government of Montenegro's SharePoint Installation.  Spinnaker is a software and system integrator operating within the ComTrade Group, the leading ICT firm in Southeast Europe. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Belgrade, Spinnaker currently operate across Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia.

Problem

In June 2006, Montenegro split from Serbia to become the world's newest state. One of the newly formed administrative divisions - the Committee for Economic Policy (KEP) - was assigned responsibility for overseeing the preparation of Cabinet meetings for the Government of Montenegro. The Committee's primary tasks included research into topics for discussion, preparation of meeting agendas and it was also charged with recording meeting conclusions, follow-up tasks and project assignments. One critical requirement was that all reports from each meeting be computerized and retained for future reference. Considering the importance of many of these documents, combined with the quantity of tasks managed by the Committee, a solution was urgently required that would enable the committee's management team to securely store, manage and report across these confidential documents.

In order to keep track of agendas, conclusions and follow-up assignments from each Cabinet meeting, the Committee for Economic Policy installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server. Using customized sites and lists, the Committee was easily able to store the required meeting documentation however, while standard WSS web parts met their collaborative requirements, they lacked the ability to:
 

• Gather and rollup data from different WSS sites and/or lists
• Report across thousands of SharePoint sites
• Set up reports to run and be emailed on a scheduled basis

Solution

Supported by Spinnaker, the Committee for Economic Policy deployed BrightWork Reporter on top of their existing SharePoint installation. BrightWork Reporter extends Sharepoint from a foundation for collaboration into a highly structured reporting environment and delivers the only SharePoint web part that enables customized rollup reporting across multiple SharePoint sites, lists and fields.

BrightWork Reporter enabled the Committee's management team to co-ordinate high quantities of projects, assign work items and set timelines all in one place. The latest version of BrightWork for SharePoint also includes the ability to schedule reports that are automatically emailed at specified times, which was vital to departmental managers in their preparation for upcoming meetings.

 

 

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