Kellwood Case Study

Custom Intranet Portal in SharePoint 2007

Kellwood Company is one of the world’s leading marketers of apparel and consumer soft goods. With 10,000 employees across numerous separate businesses, brands, departments, business objectives and multiple locations, Kellwood has a critical need for consistent communication, collaboration, knowledge sharing and company-wide access to online tools. Kellwood selected Habanero to develop a new intranet portal, based on SharePoint (MOSS 2007). The new “Infonet” leverages SharePoint’s platform and includes a custom design and the following custom developed functionality:

• Online expense report submission including approval workflow
• Integration to Microsoft BI (Business Intelligence) Dashboards
• Technical Support Request & Tracking System
• CEO Announcements, corporate news and industry news RSS feeds
• Online employee profile and employee info change submission to Human Resources
• Staff directory including personal profile
• Blogs, Discussion Boards, Surveys
• Marketing Requisition Form
• Job Postings
• Document Management / Repository
• Purchase Order Submission and workflow