• Vimal Loganathan
• 08-Dec-2014

Case

The manufacturing company was using a legacy application to communicate, share, collaborate and to provide access to the business-critical information to all its partners and vendors; there comes with its own gaps, risks due to the lack of new features and challenges thrown by the regulations and business environment. Issues pertaining to legacy applications are:

• Possibility of a breach in critical documents and drawings
• No real-time monitoring
• Lack of proactive assessment of Intellectual Property(IP) classifications

Challenges

• To protect - Intellectual Property related information of the client by providing a solution that mitigates uncertainties and create risk-free access to the suppliers
• To build easy to integrate the solution with a third-party application such as Tableau, Team center and many more
• Real-time live monitoring

The Client

A multinational - chipboard coating company, that counts top mobile phone brands as its client.

Technology

Microsoft SharePoint

Solution

RMM Technologies based on years of experience in working with clients across various industries comprehensively studied the problem and implemented a state-of-the-art collaborative solution using Microsoft SharePoint.

The application developed by RMM Technologies, helped its client to overcome Intellectual Property related challenges while sharing critical information (Business drawings and other information) to its vendors.

By assigning a predefined value (Assigned internally by the client) about low level (risk-prone) business regions, high-level regions and about the client. This information will be alerted to the buyer before sharing any sensitive information and this core feature avoids any breach of trust completely.

RMM Technologies' approach in building applications based on specific security considerations resulted in the development of solid content proof application at any point. The application can be scaled to N number of users & suppliers and eliminates the risk of IP breach completely.

Using Microsoft SharePoint, this collaborative application is developed by RMM Technologies and scaling drastically to our client. It reduces the IT spend of our clients and improves their efficiency by leaps and bounds and it stands as a testimonial to our success.

RMM's Unique Approach to this Case

• Conducted requirement gathering sessions, analyzed needs, adhered to SDLC model, revamped the business process and delivered the solution based on our expertise in quickest possible time
• Educated stakeholders on new business processes and developed an algorithm that meets the need of the client
• Developed - IP based Permission Matrix Algorithm (PMA) that ensures providing access to N number of suppliers and also protecting the critical contents
• Provided consistency and improved UI which enhances the brand reputation
• Real-time monitoring by instant notifications
• Efficient mail search and Audit track mechanism that saves time
• Ensured Business Continuity
• Easy Integration with Tableau and Teamcenter

Benefits

• Improved operational efficiency and standardization of process
• Lower IT spend with increased return on investment (ROI)
• Guarantees business certainty
• Increased user base without any restrictions

Integration

This application is capable of interacting with,

• SAP
• Teamcenter
• Oracle

This connectivity makes this application to establish connection seamlessly with other repositories to make the solution inter-operable across the organization.