SharePoint

The Challenge

Turck did not have an effective method of keeping track of who completed trainings for their ISO 9001 certification. Trainings were tracked in a master Excel list and the process was completely manual. They were looking for a solution that automates the process and is more efficient and effective.

BlueNet’s Solution

• We built a complete SharePoint solution using only out-of-the-box features and functionality. The solution has multiple components:
  • Document library that stores ISO documents
  • List that keeps track of Items that needed training
  • Employee list that keeps track of the employee and their current job title
  • Lists that store trainings that are currently outstanding and a list of the history of all trainings completed
  • Workflows that use web services to loop through other lists to schedule new trainings and auto-assign to employees
• Every task in the system is now automated. When a document changes, a workflow will start and check to see if trainings are required. If so, it automatically creates Trainings Due tasks for each employee with a job roles that requires training related to the document.
• All documents are tagged with Job Titles so that the workflow can loop through the employee list and auto-assign trainings.
• Dashboards were created for Supervisors and Managers so that they can log in and see at a glance what trainings are required for the employees they manage. They are able to mark off and complete trainings in bulk and when trainings are completed they are moved to the employees history for auditing purposes.

Summary

Turck now has an automated way to keep track of and assign trainings to all employees. Audits can be completed in a fraction of the time now that everything is stored and organized in a better way vs the previous master Excel spreadsheet. Built-in time stamps are used to keep track of completion dates, and managers can save time by going to their dashboard to get quick views of what is outstanding vs trying to have to make sense of a possibly outdated spreadsheet.

The Challenge

Impact Innovations needed a way to effectively track and store data related to each job and order that a client placed.

BlueNet’s Solution

• We developed a portal using SharePoint Online that allowed access by Impact Innovation’s clients.
  • The portal contains a list for Jobs, a library for artwork, a library for accounting files, and a list to manage inventory.
    There are several approval workflows that automatically route new orders for approval and will automatically adjust inventory when orders are finalized. Alerts are sent when inventory gets low.
• The base site was saved as a template and a new subsite gets created for each client so it can be customized with the clients logo and handle other unique needs.

Summary

Impact Innovations now has a one stop shop for orders, artwork files, and accounting files for their clients. It provides both Impact Innovations and their clients with a flexible and portable platform to collaborate and transfer data. This solution has eliminated hundreds of emails with attachments and potentially secure information. Impact Innovations and their clients now get alerts when key events happen and can visit their portal daily to see new information that needs their attention.

Customer Profile

The City of Burnsville’s goal is to provide quality services and amenities for residents and visitors to enjoy.​

The Challenge

• Burnsville previously had an HTML-based “Employee Intranet” that could only be updated by a select group of people who knew HTML and how the Intranet was configured. It was managed and changed via Microsoft Expressions, another product that only a few people had access to and knowledge to use. This made their intranet very “stale” very quickly, as time to make updates was limited and the entire site could not be appropriately maintained.
• The old Intranet did not have any document management functionality.
• The old Intranet did not have a usable “search” function and was messy and hard to navigate by end users. Employees stopped using it.

Blue Net’s Solution

• ​Use Office 365 – SharePoint to serve as the new Intranet platform. Blue Net helped create a new Intranet from the ground up.
• A new home page with content that was relevant to everyone in the organization. There is now a rotating news banner, featured links, dynamically changing “What’s Popular” and “What’s New” sections. These sections display popular and new documents from across the Intranet. There is also a section to display YouTube videos and feeds from social networks such as Facebook. Departmental sub sites – Each department will get a subsite to contain work and information related to their area.
• Multiple libraries were created to house documents that were before housed on a server and linked to from the intranet. These documents are now in a common area, able to be searched, modified and more easily accessed by all users.
  • Additional metadata was used to further categorize the documents to enhance the visibility of each document, making them easier to find and interact with.
• A common calendar was implemented to allow employees to put things on the company calendar.
  • This calendar has a custom workflow attached to it so that managers can approve/reject items before they appear on the calendar for everyone to see.

Search and Usability:

• Blue Net created a custom employee directory. The employee directory by default lists all the employees in the organization with refinements to filter by Department, Job Title, Ask me About, etc. This directory utilizes full search as well to search keywords that might be in that person’s profile.

Summary

• ​The City of Burnsville now has an organization-wide intranet that is more dynamic, more appealing, and much easier to manage. It offers document management, workflow processes, and much more.

Customer Profile

Medtronic’s medical technologies help make it possible for millions of people to resume everyday activities, return to work, and live better, longer. We’re able to do this with the help of some very special people around the world: 38,000 dedicated employees who share a passionate purpose to improve lives, thousands of medical professionals who share their insights and ideas, and hundreds of advocacy associations that help us share information so people with debilitating diseases know relief is possible.

Business Challenge

Blue Net was asked to customize the Home page and a sub-site for the Neuromodulation Sales Training department at Medtronic.

Blue Net’s Solution

• ​Blue Net worked alongside the client to arrive at a design plan and layout for the Home page and sub-site pages.
• Details such as image to be used, fonts, colors, and placement of web parts including Search were defined.
• The placements as well as look and feel of the top and side navigation bars were defined.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The Challenge

Berger’s previous PO system was built on a platform requiring continuing on-going expenses. It was also outdated and hard to change. Berger was already using Office 365 so leveraging SharePoint for a new PO system had no extra infrastructure cost.

BlueNet’s Solution

The PO system we designed was almost an exact replica of their old system. Their old system wasn’t broken, so we didn’t want to reinvent the wheel. We created lists to store Branch, Department, Vendor, and GL information. A forms library in SharePoint was used to create the PO request form. It was customized in InfoPath and has data connections to the lists to provide filtered dropdown values in the form. The form has a user entry view, and a print view that can be saved as pdf for long term storage.

Summary

Berger now has a PO system that is integrated with their Office 365 tenant and Intranet and are no longer paying extra fees for the solution. It’s also easier to access since it is in Office 365. Users can access the PO request form from wherever they have an internet connection.