Cross-Industry

The following content-centric applications are helping companies across vertical industries put content to work for their organizations.

Corporate Intranet

In large organizations, individual business groups and departments generally want to put up their own intranet sites. When this happens, each group is spending money on their own technology, which creates redundancies and unnecessary expense. The result is often that there are too many IT resources working in individual business units managing similar or duplicate technologies.

A corporate intranet enables a centralized IT group to:
  • Create an intranet-in-a-box and let individual departments choose from a handful of templates.
  • Help departments get new sites up in just a few days.
  • Allow the employees in each department to become self-sufficient in maintaining their sites.
  • Provide centralized control over the size and cost of the IT infrastructure that supports the intranet.

Customer Examples:
Fidelity Investments Canada Limited
Capital One Financial Corporation
Hartford Life, Inc.

Human Resources Intranet

In many organizations, human resources staff spend too much time handling routine questions and inquiries from employees. Management wants to focus human resources workers on more strategic tasks or reduce headcount. But staff reductions can increase response times to employee inquiries, which can negatively impact employee satisfaction. In some cases, employees can also receive inconsistent information from different departmental human resources staff or tools.

A centralized human resources intranet can:
  • Give employees self-service access to information about compensation, benefits, employee activities, job openings, performance reviews, and company policies.
  • Provide answers to frequently asked questions, organized so that human resources staff and employees can access them quickly.
  • Allow human resources staff to update the information with appropriate management review, but without requiring a technical resource.

Customer Examples:
Hartford Life, Inc.

Corporate Web Site

The company Web site is often a customer's first experience with the company. Yet many Web sites that were handcrafted in HTML early in the Internet boom haven't been updated or improved. Maintaining legacy sites in a patchwork way is expensive for IT and does little to leverage the Web to improve the company's image or bottom line.

A new corporate Web site based on FatWire Content Server can:

  • Project the company's unique values.
  • Ensure consistency with the offline image and brand.
  • Allow business experts to provide the level and style of information that captures the interest of prospects, customers, partners, and public.