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TÜV Rheinland
CMS with SAP portal integration for a global intranet
The TÜV Rheinland Group has expanded its employee portal into a company-wide communication, work and application platform.
Considering the capability for seamless integration of the CMS in the current SAP NetWeaver portal which the "Business Package for FirstSpirit™" module enables, the e-Spirit solution made perfect sense as an addition to TÜV Rheinland's SAP strategy.
Highlights:
- seamless integration with the SAP NetWeaver Portal
- transfer of the portal‘s role and authorization concepts to FirstSpirit™
- personalization: User-defined configuration of displayed content
- modification of portal content via the central working interface of the CMS
- internationalization: Multilingual employee portal combines 490 locations in 61 countries
- ensures global consistency of look & feel
- combination of portal functions and CMS elements in the areas of knowledge management & collaboration
BGV Insurances
FirstSpirit™ optimizes business processes in the insurance industry
FirstSpirit™ provides efficient management of the various online communication channels of hte BGV: Internet and several extranets for brokers and for agents
Highlights:
- central service platform for external employees and partners
- web-based processing of business processes from rate information through claim notification
- historization of texts, templates, media, documents, and database content for complete recoverability of earlier versions
- greatly reduced administration expense through central integration platform
- future-proof through modular extensibility
- awards: “Eisenhut Award for distribution software” for best brokerage portal
Merz GmbH & Co. KGaA
Alzheimer's specialist resolves communication issues with e-Spirit
While workers requirements had always been important to the business Merz wanted to bring its employees’ needs to the heart of the business.
In order to do this Merz set upon re-launching their Intranet to allow for up to the minute information and new services at its employees’ fingertips.
Highlights:
- seamless integration into the SAP Enterprise Portal
- project cycle of four months from concept to going live
- portal layout tuning allows for an intuitive graphical design, which leads to high acceptance by the employees
- rapid loading times for working more efficiently
- setup of a product data base built using FirstSpirit™
Görtz GmbH
Görtz selects FirstSpirit™ as Content Management System
With over 200 outlets and 3,000 employees, Görtz is one of Germany’s leading shoe and accessory retailers.
Görtz has thoroughly revised its corporate presentation and launched a new design, new functions and a new content management system to facilitate direct, fast and convenient website maintenance by its employees. The solution of choice: FirstSpirit™ CMS.
Highlights:
- Database integration over existing interfaces
- Strong ease of use
- Simple management of content and structure "in-house"
- Expandability for multiple languages
- Fast implementation
Würth Group
Würth uses FirstSpirit™ as their group-wide Content Management System
With over 360 subsidiaries in 82 countries, the Würth Group, headquartered in Künzelsau, Germany, is a global player that employs some 53,000 people around the world.
The company is a renowned direct seller of screws, dowels and plugs, chemical products, furniture and construction fittings, tools, stock keeping and picking systems. They have chosen FirstSpirit™ to consolidate the different websites of the group.
Highlights:
- Scalability for worldwide implementation
- Intuitive working and editing environment without much need for training courses
- Platform independency for an uncomplicated Integration into the established IT environment
- Inherent Multilingualism for implementation in all desired languages
Knauf Gips KG
FirstSpirit™ for managing corporate websites
To go far, you need a solid foundation. That’s why Knauf Gips KG places special value on quality, precision and cost effectiveness. The company is also setting new standards on the Internet.
While relaunching its websites www.knauf.de and www.knauf-bauprodukte.de, the company also planned to implement a modern content management
system (CMS) to make creating, maintaining and managing its websites more efficient and straight forward - that is why they implemented FirstSpirit™.
Highlights:
- Strategic instrument for webpresence management
- Speeding-up and simplifying of internal processes
- Separate management of content and layout templates enables the reuse of content
- Integrated complienece with the corporate design
- Subsequent use of the established IT infrastructures
EADS
FirstSpirit™ technology is a convenient cockpit for the EADS intranet
The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), the largest aerospace enterprise in Europe, and the second largest in the world, set itself the goal of consolidating and homogenizing the various stand-alone solutions in the group’s headquarters into a uniform platform.
After an extensive selection process they made a decision for the
FirstSpirit™ integration platform.
Highlights:
- Corporate Intranet
- FirstSpirit™ as central platform for enterprise processes
- Consolidation of existing CMS in FirstSpirit™
- Multilingualism
- Integration of Microsoft Office SharePoint
