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SharePoint intranet portal for transport and logistics clients

Ward Transport was founded in 1931 with one truck, one route, two drivers, and one customer. From those beginnings they've grown to serve 10,000 customers each year throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlanticarea offering LTL, truckload, brokerage, warehousing, and logistics services.
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Ward provides direct LTL service within a 12-state region in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Nineteen service centers are located throughout the 12-state area. They extend their LTL coverage to include the upper northeast, southeast, southern, and south central U.S. through partnerships with AMA Transportation, Wilson Trucking, Southwestern Motor Transport, Dependable Highway Express, and Speedy Transport.

Business Challenge

  • Organization plan to have an employee portal where all the employee can access the portal.
  • Intranet portal is a Web-based tool that allows users to create a wiki, article, blog and customized site for project, community and departments that helps to manage data and information more easily, and handling of user’s request efficiently.
  • Intranet portals provide value-added capabilities by increasing collaboration between work groups and allowing content creators to self-publish their information.

How Avasoft helped?

  • By use of Form Based Authentication, reduced the per-user license cost by built-in a way to validate and store user credentials
  • Self-service capabilities such as creating Project, Department and Community sites.
  • Worked closely with multiple teams of the client from business requirements, development, testing to deployment and delivered as a single team.

Tech Stack

Value additions to Customer

  • Intranet portals also reduce the need for users to browse far and wide to obtain needed information, thus making it easier for them to perform their jobs.
  • It is easy to use and understand due to a wide range of technical abilities.
  • Enable user or group based security to secure documents and sites throughout the intranet portal.

Business Gains

  • Software that is flexible to allow for organization. Ability for users to customize sites and resources they use most often.
  • Intranet portal can help employees find information more easily and perform their jobs better.
  • People are now able to collaborate their work with each other.

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