Microsoft SharePoint Intranet with Reporting Capabilities

Our Customer, Sturgeon Services International, is a US-based company that provides a full stack of construction and maintenance services for oil enterprises. Having been in the business for almost a century, the company follows strict safety principles, applies effective time-management practices, and implements cost-saving techniques.

The oil industry has its own business-specific features and challenges because of the following factors:

• Diversity of project participants and their distributed functions.
• Need for multichannel interaction.
• Complex document workflows at each project stage.
• Need for managing several projects simultaneously.

Companies working in the petroleum industry are in dire need of a reliable IT eco-system. Effective IT solutions minimize manual work and effort spent on document management, thus reducing the number of mistakes and cutting project costs, as well as keeping up with the industry standards.

First of all, Iflexion’s SharePoint consultants set up the PerformancePoint solution that allowed users to generate reports with custom dashboards. Ready-made reports represent data on the company’s profit within a certain period. The initial data resides in tables and diagrams broken down into different sections according to the Customer’s requirements.

After that, the team configured a Microsoft SharePoint intranet leveraging SharePoint 2013 capabilities. The solution includes the following components:

• Corporate news;
• Notifications;
• Important links; 
• Corporate calendar;
• Announcements;
• Employees’ feedback;
• Corporate documents;
• Library with company safety reports.

Employees’ feedback became one of the most popular and effective features as it enabled users to voice their opinion about the SharePoint intranet and exchange ideas on how to improve the portal making it more user-friendly and powerful. Employees then discuss the generated ideas with the technical team and choose the best ones to enrich the intranet’s functionality.

The intranet supports the following user roles:

• Standard user
• Manager
• System administrator
• Content editor

The members of the corporate management committee distributed user permissions to let privileged users access sensitive content that can’t be disclosed to all employees.

At the end of the project, the Customer got a fully functioning Microsoft SharePoint intranet provided with reporting features critical for the company’s daily activities. The new solution allowed employees to process data securely, build comprehensive reports with custom dashboards and diagrams, as well as to keep in step with the corporate life, follow organizational news and events, manage documents and contribute to the further solution’s improvement.