Duke University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. The university's campus spans over 8,600 acres (3,500 hectares) on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort.
The Challenge
In 2008 Duke University alumni association was overwhelmed by paper processes and contacted us for a SharePoint solution to their process management challenges.
What We Did
We migrated several disparate 2007 farms to one centralized farm location and set up Microsoft ISA 2006 as a smart firewall. We then managed their SharePoint farm for several years, did an upgrade from 2007 to 2010, managed their firewall, forms-based authentication, and built document management solutions.
We then Outlook publishing using RPC over HTTP, Also provides was forms-based authentication, and document management apps to include these following features:
- Findability of documents
- Search customization
- Tagging of documents
- Standardized hierarchies
- Portability of documents
- Emailing docs to SharePoint with auto-filing/tagging of doc
- Standardized hierarchies
- Compliance with legal
- Retention duration
- Auto archival and deletion
- Security of documents: who can see what and what degree of the desired auditing
- Governance of documents
- Defined tags (to aid search)
- Standardized hierarchies so users intuitively know where to locate or place documents.
The Result
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