Case Study
Karastan
Karastan has
been creating some of the world's most beautiful rugs for
almost three-quarters of a century and enjoys a dual role as
leader in both manufacturing and interior design
innovations.
Karastan needed a secure way to
effectively and efficiently communicate with their four
distinct US dealer networks. Here is some of the information
they need to communicate:
- Price Lists and
Price Tags
- Merchandising
and Display information
- Marketing and
Promotions Calendars
- General and
Special Announcements
- Current Microsoft
Word and Excel Files
Each dealer "Rep Group"
needed it's own site so first we designed a portal
"entry" page. All of the dealers go to www.repnews.com
to log in and select their respective dashboard. Just like a
car dashboard delivers critical information to the driver
(i.e. speed, gear, lights, gas temperature etc.) Each Dashboard delivers all the current and
important information to the dealer at a glance. (i.e. newest documents,
announcements, calendars, links etc.)
As new documents, events
and announcements are added to the sites the information is
automatically posted to the dashboards making it easy for
the dealers to stay informed and access files.
SharePoint has provided
Karastan a secure online environment that is easy to
navigate, can be accessed from any computer 24/7 and is
almost effortless to maintain and manage. |