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SHAREPOINT CASE STUDIES


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Corporate Intranet On SharePoint

Industry: Retail

Country: Saudi Arabia

Solution: Corporate

Intranet on SharePoint

Technologies & Tools:Technology: C#.NET,

SharePoint

2010Database: MS

SQL Server 2008 R2

Background: Our Client is one of the leading suppliers of

packaging products in the Middle East. They also have one of the

largest bookstores in the Middle East. They have their own

publishing Division, which produced more than 1000 different

titles. Currently they have over 30 Stores under operation with

average store size 3000 4000 Sq. Mt.Challenges: Being a group of companies, our client had multiple

critical business processes built on different platforms. They were

looking to invest in a platform that the whole Group could utilize

in order to make processing of information more efficient; both

intercompany and across the Group. The new platform needed to

allow relevant information to be shared clearly between the largenumber of staff, the companies that sit within the Group and the

separate support functions and departments.


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Solution:We started with an analysis of the key businesses

processes that our client wanted to streamline using an intranet.

Meeting with key stakeholders, the team was able to determine

the business value of each existing process as well as all proposed

and desired modifications. Once our team understood the needs

of the business, the next step was to create a project plan to re-engineering these processes into a collaborative workflow of

enabled SharePoint sites that would allow users to create, share

and approve information. A phased approach was devised in

which a mix of business applications would be deployed in each

phase. Katpro team developed a master intranet page with sub-

sites for each specific department and its related businessprocesses. Document libraries, lists, discussion boards and other

SharePoint features were used to create business applications on

the SharePoint platform. Custom web parts were created to

resolve specific business issues and meet requirements. Active

Directory was set as the permissions platform and was used

extensively to manage user access into specific businessapplication sub-sites.


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SharePoint Reporting Services were used for ad-hoc reports and

dashboard tools. MySites in collaboration with Lync was enabled

for communication. Approval workflows and alerts were

incorporated into the sites as required.

Katpro also architected an effective SharePoint extranet solution

that would enable staff and vendors to manage all aspects of theshipping and order tracking requests. Our team created a

SharePoint extranet solution that leveraged forms based

authentication using a separate instance of Microsoft SQL Server

instead of having vendor information in the Active Directory.

Custom SharePoint Web Parts were leveraged to create a strong

authentication process for vendors to login and review requests.The vendors only have access to their own requests and were

able to process the requests. Once the requests were processed,

vendors are able to notify appropriate staff members of shipment

status as well as provide them with real time tracking

information.


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Result: Our Client now has a very successful and dynamic Intranet

that has been well received and adopted by their employees. The

Intranet was well received at all levels within the group of

companies.

Some additional benefits include:

Operational and maintenance cost savings for IT Improved information flow throughout the organization by

providing for consistent cross-company communication.

Centralized information allowing for single version of the truth

Search capabilities implemented to reduce staff time spent

looking for information

Increased employee productivity by securely providing accessto the most recent information

Reduced turnaround time by providing a central site to access

and search for information and documents

The SharePoint Extranet solution has drastically streamlined the

entire shipping process and has been instrumental in reducing

request processing time as well and the enhanced tracking of allrequests.


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Vendor and Contract Management On SharePoint

Industry:

Manufacturing

Country: USA

Solution: Vendor &

Contract Managementon SharePoint

Technologies & Tools:

Technology: C#.NET,

SharePoint

2010Database: MS

SQL Server 2008 R2

Background: The customer is a North Carolina, US based

automobile manufacturing company that has clients, vendors and

other operations worldwide.

Challenges: Most of the order and purchase tracking currently

was being done through emails and spreadsheet manually. The

client wanted to have a system that enables them to view,collaborate and manage vendors within their supply chain and

also track the progress of the orders through an integrated

system. There were difficulties in referring to policies, spend limits

and procedures before placing orders for procurement. The users

were currently monitoring the status of the orders only through

emails/ phone calls. The client also had a few other businessapplications that needed a reporting solution for easy sharing and

collaboration


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Why SharePoint: SharePoint provides built-in infrastructure for

document management, versioning, workflow integration apart

from collaboration and reporting capabilities.

Solution: The SharePoint based solution that Katpro provided

allowed users from within the corporate Active Directory (AD) and

also partners and vendors from the Extranet to log in to thesystem to participate in the vendor and procurement process.

Katpro helped in building the entire SharePoint based system

which included document libraries, information management and

policies, approval workflows, site topology, custom branding,

custom forms, meta data management and search.


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Katpro Advantage:Katpro with it wide area of expertise in

implementing and deploying SharePoint applications to various

corporate clients was able to methodically analyze, plan, deliver

on-time the Contract and Procurement management system to

this client. Katpro has very experienced developer and architects

who have wide and deep understanding of MicrosoftTechnologies who work together in delivering cutting edge

SharePoint solutions, that are scalable, flexible and performance

oriented.


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Result: The client was able to see visible results in order approval

and traceability with the help of the solution that Katpro helped

develop. Vendors were able to view log in from their offices and

view the RFPs and also respond to them in defined timelines and

approval and feedback features to record and track approval

process. Our client was able to manage orders and procurementrequests to vendors and generate reports on the progress of the

orders and other key KPIs against each vendor and orders. With

the help of document management and sharing, users were able

to easily refer to policy documents and other guidelines before

creating procurement requests.


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Medical Transcription Management

Industry: Health Care

Country: India

Solution: Medical

Transcription

managementTechnologies & Tools:

Technology: C#.NET,

WPF, WCF, Microsoft

Azure Database: MS

SQL Azure

Background: Our Client is a transcription industry leader in

providing medical transcription services and medical records

Challenges: Our Client needed a standard platform that will allow

all the transcription and assignment workflow engines to

communicate and streamline the day-to-day operation. Originally

they were using workflow and transcription system that were notintegrated and required significant amount of manual process to

keep track of the transcription performed by the Medical

Transcriptionist and the Quality Assurance performed by internal

processing team. Our client hired Katpro Technologies to design

and develop a hosted middleware web based application that will

tie all the core components and automate the business processwith real-time reporting and tracking component to allow our

client to account for each step of the process


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Solution:Katpro Technologies designed and developed Cloud-

based Medical Transcription Portal that was the primary platform

to streamline and automate our client day-to-day business

process. Katpro Technologies was successful in creating a backend

work flow process that streamlined the business process with

minimal human error and achieved cost reduction. We usedWindows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft SQL Azure

Database and Microsoft C# to develop the enterprise level cloud-

based web application. The Medical Transcription Portal is

composed of the following distinct functional modules:

Task management: This module streamlines the work

assignments and completion of transcription by the MedicalTranscriptionist

Upload: This module will allow the admin to upload multiple

patient details comprised in an excel sheet along with the

patients details hard copy in PDF format.

Reports: Patients reports will be auto generated depending on

different parameters assigned.


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Documents Archive (Client Management Portal): The client

portal allows the client direct access to their archived medical

records. This module provides clients with basic and advance

search features to allow them to view or download their work.

This module is an online archiving portal to allow clients to access

their patient information anytime and anywhere.Automated Task Allocation: Tasks will be auto allocated to

different transcriptionists based on their availability.

Billing: Automated invoicing and billing based on the completed

assignments in the Task Management module. This module

provides easy email based invoicing as well as flexible manual

invoicing for client with special billing cyclePayroll: Provided complete payroll report with complete

employee line count, hourly and contribution amount.


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Health Improvement and Management System

Industry: Health Care

Country: India

Solution: Health

Improvement &

Management SystemTechnologies & Tools:

Technology: C#,

ASP.NET, WCF,

Microsoft

Azure Database: MS

SQL Azure

Background: Our client specializes in offering wellness solutions

to individuals as their main focus is to improve the health

behavior of the individuals. Their main areas of focus are

individuals (working in the company), the enterprise and the

insurance company. They wanted to help the individual to

maintain their personal wellness, the enterprise to maintain arecord of their employees and the insurance company to reach

their consumer in a easy and transparent manner

Challenges: When employees join an institute they need to take

medical check up and submit reports but the access to those

reports is difficult when it is required. So a platform where all the

personal data can be stored can prove to be really useful.Also as an individual In our busy life, it is difficult to have a track

on our health status(unless very necessary). Keeping a track can

be a boon for health administrators/Doctors as it can help them

not only in diagnosing but also in explaining the cause of the

disease, hence helping them take proper decision in the

treatment. This will automatically help the individual.


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As an Enterprise The main cause of worry for various enterprises

is the absence of the employees from work and the reason being

their health issue. Its also been a challenge for them to work on

this issue. Records can help them sort the problem along with a

good plan on health premiums, which suits best.

As Insurers The challenge for an insurer always remains reachingout to their customers and helping them in the best possible way

they can.

As Administrator The problem is management of huge data in a

common platform, easy access and storage.

So the client seeks Katpros help to decide a platform where all

the health records can be saved so that the employees can accessit with their own credentials and also from other social

networking sites. A solution for the administrators can manage

the employees information and use it as and when needed. A

solution for HR/enterprise management where they can overview

the health status of the employees and provide access to the

doctor to send Emails and view general employee data.


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Solution: Katpro helps in development and knowledge transfer

Katpro analyses the problem and comes with a solution that can

cater to all the categories which includes the individual

(employee), the enterprise (company) and also the insurance

company.

Innovative service oriented architecture provides a commonplatform for storage and retrieval of health records.

The solution is divided in different categories as per the

requirement of the client.

1.Normal user (employee)

2.Employee

3.Administrator


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The Portal is composed of the following distinct functional

modules: A timeline chart showing record of employees blood

pressure, weight and the goals and requirement to maintain good

health.

An option to throw a challenge to another user and compare

the readings if the other user is willing to share An option to set goals and fulfil the targets accordingly. For

example losing weight or blood pressure

A Medication Chart where employees can update their

medication status

Alerts can be created by users


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Result: The employees of our client were able to monitor their

health status and lead a healthy life, adding more value to their

life and work.

Richer data is available more quickly.

Our client was able to maintain huge data of employee

informationA model for enterprises and organizations

This systemized health record system can be followed by

enterprises to develop a healthy relationship with the employees

and help them to improve health behavior along with their work

outputs.


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Integrated Learning Management Solution

Industry: Education

Country: India

Solution: Integrated

Learning Management

SolutionTechnologies & Tools:

Technology: C#.NET,

ASP.NET 4.0, AJAX

Database: MS SQL

Server 2008 R2/

Microsoft SQL AzureHosting

Environment: Windo

ws Server 2008 R2/

Windows Azure

Background: Our Client, a learning technology startup

headquartered at Bangalore, provides technology solutions to

create active learning content and integrate them in existing

learning solutions. They work with education content providers,

publishers, online learning companies, universities and

autonomous institutes to develop custom solutions for activitybased learning solutions across K-12 and higher education

domains.

Challenges: Our Client wanted a scalable and fast web based

solution for colleges to conduct online programming tests to

students. The solution should be capable of handling multiple

tenants. The solution has to be a cloud based solution in order tobe accessed through multiple devices irrespective of their

location.


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Solution: For implementation and development of the new

Integrated Learning Management Solution, our client conducted

an extensive search of software development companies and

chose Katpro as the most competent company in SaaS systems

sphere.

A course creation and delivery environment was delivered,whereby a users can simply create new courses, new modules

within courses, and new topics within modules, using and editing

a tree hierarchy of courses, modules and topics. A topic may have

several learning objects associated with it: for example, the text

of a lecture in PDF format, the associated PowerPoint

presentation, details of formal group work (PDF or a Worddocument), a feedback form, and so on. There is a facility to edit,

move, reorganize, duplicate and delete course elements and add

learning objects through Question Bank Management module.


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A workflow was implemented that automated the process, giving

content creators freedom to upload and update their material in a

repository while also allowing course leaders and staff at the

Department of eLearning control in the assembly and release of

modules. A flexible role based permissions system was provided

giving the multiple permissions required.Once a module is compiled and approved for release, a

publication mechanism releases the module materials to one or

more cohorts and integrates it with the appropriate discussion

forums and community groups.

Each user has responsibility for particular areas, such as learning

module development or proof reading etc. Each course has aCourse Leader who can also be multiple other roles, depending

upon the area of the system they are accessing. The system

automatically provides the correct permissions and content entry

points for each user.


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From a students perspective, they can log in to a particular

course and their progression can be monitored. The system

automatically configures content and the look and feel of the web

environment based on the students progression. Katpro

integrates all the clients back office data and other systems to

dynamically deliver relevant information to each student.Katpros tree structure makes use of Content Types, the tree

structure nodes are essentially place holders for content that will

be used in the development and delivery of content. Content may

or may not be published, or may be made securely available to

members, subscribers or visitors that login to the website. Any

associated files that should not be made available areautomatically locked from view and are inaccessible.


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Result: Katpro rolled out a fully functional learning management

solution with the following features:

Browser-based interface, available over the web hosted in

Microsoft Azure

SQL server data basing, ASP.NET programming

Scalable and stable Secure data

Faster query Processing

Centralizes course and learner administration

Convenient reporting and learner assessment

Course recommendations linked to competencies and

assessment results Intuitive and user-friendly

Fully developed and tested

Built-in certification, quizzing, evaluation


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Course sharing with other systems

For the learner: E-mail confirmation, view history, self-

assessment by competency

Calendars, FAQs, mass e-mails to subgroups and customized e-

mails

Multiple levels of administration permit customization beyondstandard course administrator and global administrator; cascading

system of read/modify/approve rights based on administrative

level

Asynchronous dialogue course approval process for

administrators

Individually branded interface SCORM compliant


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