CLIENT PROFILES - FEATURED CLIENT PORTFOLIO    
Introduction

The Safety and Compliance department of Holox Ltd. wanted to be able to distribute and disseminate their vast database of information to internal personnel, customers and vendors across a widely dispersed geographic area.

The data had been stored in a Lotus Notes database that had become slow and was unable to efficiently store and retrieve documents across organizational boundaries. Additionally, their IT department was unwilling to connect the Notes server to a web server. NOTE: Holox, Ltd merged with Linde Gas, LLC January 1, 2004.

Linde Gas is a member of the Linde Group, an international technology group which has a leading market position in each of its three business segments, Gas and Engineering, Material Handling and Refrigeration. With around 46,500 Employees, they achieved sales in fiscal 2003 of 8.992 billion euro

Technical
Because of various constraints, we had two options: build an HTML web with links to the Notes server, or export all documents and link to them directly on the web server. The latter became the client's choice. Thousands of documents were exported and re-formatted using an embedded style sheet that gave the site a consistent look and feel throughout. The site is currently undergoing a conversion to an SQL database and implementation of ASP technology for better performance.
Creative
The Safety Director decided he wanted a site that had the same look and feel of the United States DOT Web site (Which has since changed). Our designers were able to create a clean, easy to navigate and read user interface that provided the client with the features they wanted. An alphabetical index was built on the homepage for quick access to any given document along with a search by category section that mimicked their offline Safety Manual.
Results
  • Provides all users with easy access to all Safety documentation.
  • Documents are easily located through multiple avenues.
  • Content is now organized by topic and alphabetized within sections.
  • Both online e-Learning courseware and quizzes are now available plus printable documentation for local site distribution.
  • The Web site is easily updatable as new documents are created.
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