Steelcase
Steelcase, the world’s largest office furniture manufacturer, is renowned for creating great experiences by offering a range of furniture, architecture, and technology products since beginning its operations almost a century ago.
Technology:
PHP, Wordpress
Service:
Web Application
Challenge
Steelcase, a global leader in workspace systems and office furniture, was in need of a platform where their employees, distributors, contractors, and dealers could communicate and share information with each other.
They used a proprietary system called Jive which they wanted to move away from in order to save cost and increase control.
They wanted a solution that would be similar to a forum but with the added capabilities of private and public groups, social interactions, collaboration, and documentation sharing + storage.
The main objective was to create a secure platform to protect the information shared on the platform from public access and to make the platform user-friendly and accessible to all stakeholders through single login credentials that could be used to access all their systems.
Solution
To meet these objectives, our team built a company portal for Steelcase using the BuddyPress plugin for WordPress. BuddyPress is a powerful plugin that allows organizations to build social networks for their communities.
We utilized its functionalities to build a company portal for Steelcase, where employees, distributors, contractors, and dealers could connect and share information.
BuddyPress was heavily extended to create significant additional capabilities that the client needed while maintaining backward compatibility and sanctity of the WordPress application architecture.
We integrated with One Login to automate user access and provisions across their global organization.
Results
With the implementation of the company portal, Steelcase was able to realize numerous benefits, including:
- Reduced Costs
- More Control
- Improved Communication
- User-Friendly Platform
- Streamlined Access
