The Client

The client is a global oilfield and information services company with major activity in the energy industry. The company employs 55,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in 100+ countries.

Business challenges

• Difficulties in sharing knowledge among the numerous and the both geographically and functionally dispersed internal groups
• Large number of local Web sites and applications leading to information duplication
• High administrative effort increased with the lack of standard architecture

Our solution

• To implement a new Intranet portal
• The designed Hub is a central repository for all Contents that any enterprise entity wants to share; it contains knowledge repositories, project management & collaboration tools; acts as the entry point to all other sites and applications
• Main functions include: Centralized search tool, Content management, security services and access management.

The results

• End users search the relevant information more efficiently & effectively sharing knowledge
• 100,000 page requests per day, 260,000 contents, 120,000 binary files, 4,000 contributors
• Content providers focus on quality of content rather than publishing (‘look and feel’, navigation, etc)