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THE SAPIENT People PORTAL

A Global Solution

About us

We’re a global services firm that operates two groups — Sapient Interactive and Sapient Consulting. We help clients compete, evolve and grow in an increasingly complex marketplace. Sapient Interactive provides brand and marketing strategy, award-winning creative work, web design and development and emerging media expertise. Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing and trading and risk management services. We’re also a Global Gold Certified Microsoft Partner.

Challenge

As a rapidly growing, 6,000 + person organization, we were looking for ways to upgrade our companywide intranet experience. Particularly in the areas of Sapient processes, systems/infrastructure, team collaboration and improved information flow. People were spending too much time on internal processes and were frustrated with excessive e-mail alerts, old information on the intranet, communication channels that were broken or underutilized and an overall sense of detachment from the Sapient community.

The Portal’s numerous categories and in-depth content needed to cover thousands of pages with several links available for downloads and easy access to other areas of the site. To support this immense endeavor, we selected the Microsoft SharePoint MOSS 2007 platform, because of its flexibility and advanced web content management functionality. It is a great fit for Sapient, because our IT staff are trained on and fully support Microsoft products. And with licensing already in place, MOSS is a cost-efficient solution. This consolidated, easily deployed platform helps our global company stay well informed and connected.

Solution

We chose to create an online People Portal to decrease time spent on ineffective internal processes and improve understanding, accessibility, visibility and execution. We also wanted to improve...