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Top 17 case studies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and several new MOSS-based web sites

   While I was putting together a customer ready DVD (more details will be announced soon) that contains a VM of MOSS 2007 and Office 2007 programs along with SharePoint related technical information and content, I asked our Customer Evidence team for the Top 10 case studies for MOSS 2007, and they gave me the following 17, which have been copied onto the DVD master. I hope that you’ll find these useful even if only to send to your TDMs/BDMs as affirmation that your recommendation to use MOSS for your solution was a good one. J 

·         Mary Kay: Major Cosmetics Producer Deploys Microsoft Search Technology to Increase Efficiency

·         TUV NORD Group: Global Certification Group Improves Safety and Quality Audit Efficiency by 20 Percent

·         Del Monte Foods: Del Monte Foods Automates Formula Change Process to Reduce Cycle Time by 33 Percent

·         Monsanto Company: Agricultural Innovator Empowers Employees, Cuts Costs with Integrated Enterprise Search

·         MTV: TV Giant Automates Workflow, Boosts Data Access with Information Management System

·         Parks Canada: Government Agency Streamlines Information Management and Enhances Collaboration

·         CGI Insurance Business Services: Canadian Professional Services Firm Accelerates the Generation of Proposals

·         Ampacet: Global Manufacturer Expects $60 Million of New Revenue from Product Innovation

·         Ziba Design: Design Firm Improves Customer Relationships with New Extranet Solution

·         Statoil: Leading Oil and Gas Producer Improves Collaboration with Offline Working

·         Getronics: Solution Provider Gains Enhanced Security in Critical Collaboration Environment

·         Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton: Law Firm Increases Functionality and Reduces Costs with New Intranet

·         Enterprise Rent-A-Car: Rental Car Company Upgrades IT Environment for Increased Security, User Productivity

·         Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.: Brokerage Embraces Electronic Document Management for Better Customer Service

·         Department of Education and Training Victoria (Australia): DET Victoria Saves up to $208,000 a Year with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

·         Miami Dade County Public Schools: Collaborative Portal Improves Education for Fourth Largest U.S. School District

·         BMW: BMW Takes Employee Collaboration to New Heights with Communication Software

   If you’re looking for MOSS-based Internet web sites, here’s a fairly comprehensive list though more sites seem to be popping up every week. Listed below are some of my recent favorites:

·         Glu: Heavily customized and branded portal for mobile gamers. A “how we did it” guest blog entry from the project team will be forthcoming.

·         SendTec: Corporate web site for a multi-channel marketing company. Looks nothing like a typical SharePoint site, and they even used a custom HTTP handler to hide the '/pages' folder structure.

·         Wise Woman: A community portal for women created by The Body Shop. The site is WCAG 1.0 AA complaint, which busts the myth that MOSS-based sites cannot be compliant with accessibility standards.

·         Plymouth Hospitals: Corporate web site for a healthcare provider in the UK. The site is also WCAG 1.0 AA compliant and even provides color contrast and font size options for the visually impaired.

·         MyTalk AU: A community portal for a group of radio and TV stations in Australia. The site was migrated from Telligent’s Community Server (no offense to Telligent, who is a Microsoft ISV Partner, but the customer wanted better web content management capabilities along with community features in the same solution) and busts the other big myth about MOSS, which is that it cannot be used to implement Web 2.0 oriented solutions. A “how we did it” guest blog entry from the project team will also be forthcoming.

·         Direct Energy: Corporate web site for one of North America's leading integrated energy companies. The site uses MOSS's Site Variations capability to implement English and Spanish versions of the content.