CleverPear Projects Portal
CleverPear Projects Portal
CleverPear built its project portal to create one-stop information and management environment for
multiple projects with multiple large clients. The portal and process have become so successful that
CleverPear leverages them for almost every project.
Objectives
- Develop a portal that CleverPear staff, clients and partners can use to manage overall
project functions, including documents, timelines, builds, milestones and change requests.
- Create personalized content and navigation for each user audience.
Target audiences
- Agency account managers and account executives
- CleverPear project leaders and software developers
- External project vendors
- Client managers and executives
Solution highlights
- Develop custom templates using Sharepoint Designer 2007.
- Integrate security with the NT domain server.
- Develop custom controls using ASP.NET 2.0 and C# to tie into backend systems for quote and support requests.
- Integrate customized workflows to support customer-specific approval processes for projects.
- Provide audience-targeted content and navigation for individual personalized workflows.
- Support community blogs, forums and WIKI features, including RSS feeds and full integration with the Office productivity suite.
Results
- The project portal supports multiple enterprise clients with multiple ongoing projects.
- The portal’s targeted navigation provides one-click access to clients’ latest projects and an archive of completed projects.
- The portal has improved CleverPear’s internal processes with its offshore development teams by 25 percent.
- Slingshot, a longstanding CleverPear client, has leveraged the portal for client and internal projects for three years and continues to use it for ongoing work.