High-Performance Information Platform Based on Coremedia and Office 365

Data and information became increasingly challenging to find as the heterogeneous intranet landscape was geared not only to the management of service and tool links but also to the site-specific provision of internal documents. It was not possible to provide data, information, and news throughout the company and to keep employees up to date on internal developments at all times.

DMG MORI wished for more efficient internal communication. To achieve this, it needed a powerful intranet that would give all employees access to relevant information - from employees in the offices, field staff, and external colleagues to workers in production - and act as a starting point for their daily work. For this purpose, it should be divided into an information area and a work area. The employees in production should be allowed to access the intranet via store floor terminals with access control.

Arvato Systems developed the new intranet as part of an agile project approach (Scrum). Since the group already used CoreMedia as its content management system and wanted to continue using Office 365 for strategic reasons, the two solutions were integrated for the first time. The first step was to create an informative intranet for daily work. Using a dashboard with newsfeed characters, users can filter information according to their needs and create a personal work bar. The desired collaboration functions were added later.