GfK Panel Services Intranet

Numotion realized a corporate intranet for GfK Panel Services in Dongen, Netherlands.

Background

GfK LogoGfK provides clients from industry, retail, the service sector and the media with information services, which they use for their marketing.

Established more than 70 years ago as Germany's first market research institute, with more than 120 subsidiaries, offices and participations and over 7,500 employees in more than 60 countries, the GfK Group is one of the leading market research companies.

Branche
Business Services

Goals


The GfK Panel Services intranet must support employees at their daily jobs.

Solution

Gfk Intranet ScreenshotThe new intranet constitues a central entrance from every desktop or laptop within the company. The intranet contains information on departments, projects, news, people, jubilae, birthdays and connections to the GfK backoffice. Employees can find information or documents easily via advanced search capabilities. Different navigation methods are employed to give to provide users with a friendly interface to support them in their daily work.







Gfk Intranet CMS ScreenshotIn cooperation with GfK, new features have been developed for Numotion WebManager. For example: authorized document search (pdf, office), show network folders and backoffice applications, autologon, templatemanagement, content subscription and birthday/jubilae alerts.

Webcontent can easily be managed via the complete and user-friendly management interface of Numotion WebManager. Workflow management ensures a controlled publication environment.

Services

  • Consultancy & Project Management
  • Interaction design & webdesign
  • Intranet development
  • Training
Technology
  • Numotion WebManager
  • Languages: XHTML, CSS, Vbscript, Javascript
  • Database: MS SQL Server
  • Operating System: Windows 2003 / IIS 6

Project Duration
4 weeks

Benefits

The following benefits have been achieved:

  • The intranet presents up-to-date information improving knowledgemanagement.
  • Webcontent can easily be managed by non-technical users.
  • The intranet has been realized in 3 weeks resulting in an effective cost-saving project.
  • The intranet is flexible and scalable for the future.

As part of GfK Panel Services ISO 9000-2000 certification, Numotion products and services are judged as very good.

Meeuwis Geleijns says Numotion is professional and customer-centered:

"Numotion is very professional en customer-friendly, they respond quickly and adequatly to questions and present solutions timely. The projectgroup worked with a lot of dedication to reach our deadlines."

- Meeuwis Geleijns, Manager ICT Infra

Danny Mertens judges Numotion WebManager op webstandards:

"The product is solid and well thought, not trivial is that it's build on webstandards that fit perfectly in the standard products and protocols of the GfK development en infrastructure environment."

- Danny Mertens, System en Network Manager