Major global publishing group, HarperCollins, has created a new intranet portal based on SharePoint enterprise web development technology.
The publisher focussed on data from its offices in both New York and Scranton, Pennsylvania as the source of its new intranet content. It says it has already migrated several of its existing Windows files from these locations onto its new SharePoint platform; including data from market research activity, files pertaining to press releases, and documents focussing on the company’s history.
HarperCollins says it now also plans to move its records management files, its legal files, and its corporate business documents onto the SharePoint site.
HarperCollins’s new SharePoint intranet solution is understood to be the corporation’s first true collaborative, communications-based enterprise web development platform.
The publisher admits that the process of migrating its complex realms of data to the new platform – particularly from its New York offices where a high volume of documents and files relating to the organisation’s human resources and corporate communication activities had been stored – had presented a particularly taxing logistical challenge.
The task, however, it says, was greatly accelerated with the assistance of specialist Axceler FileLoader software.
Senior manager of systems development for HarperCollins, John DeGiglio, explained the corporation’s initial concerns:
“At first glance, the movement of all that data was daunting. Doing it manually would have required months of time from our corporate communications team”.
Using the FileLoader software, the process is reported to have taken just under a week to complete.
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