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McHenry County, Illinois

SharePoint Intranet


Challenge >

McHenry County recognized the limitations of their existing tools (file shares, email attachments and local storage) and saw the potential for SharePoint to help them advance their document collaboration practices. In addition, the county’s present intranet was not effective in distributing timely content for employees to quickly locate commonly used forms and documents. Forms were particularly inefficient, requiring users to download, print, and fill out a paper form followed by inter-office delivery and manual re-entry of the data.
 

Goal >

Risetime’s solution addressed both the needs for an improved intranet experience and department document collaboration practices.
 

Solution >

Detailed information architecture artifacts captured key site structure and content organization details, including a detailed site map, content inventory, security groups and permissions, and team site templates. 
 
There were several areas where SharePoint out-of-the-box functionality was extended:
 

  • Third-party Web part integration created an “FAQ” and custom calendar feature using a Bamboo™ Web part.

  • InfoPath forms and workflows provide automation of document approval and routing for forms.

  • Custom notifications for the home page allowed department liaisons to get approved or rejected messages from the site administrator for publishing.
Team site templates were created for both large, multi-tiered departments and smaller ones with less content.​
All features were designed to be extensible for future personalization and application integration.​
 

Value >

The SharePoint Intranet solution provided McHenry County with the following benefits:
 

  • County employees reported significant reductions in the amount of time needed to locate key content and documents.

  • Team site templates with versioning and check-out functionality improved inter-department document collaboration practices.

  • Departments decreased their reliance on IT for managing intranet content updates.
Forms submission process was streamlined and less labor intensive.
To find out how Risetime can bring exceptional results like these to your business, contact us today. 


 

Project

Develop a SharePoint Intranet to allow employees to collaborate on documents and automate forms.

 

Client Profile

McHenry County, located 60 miles northwest of Chicago, is the sixth largest county in Illinois with 1,400 employees and over 315,000 people living in multiple townships, cities and villages.  
 

Technology


  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Edition

  • InfoPath