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.