Customer Solution Case Study Online Mortgage Service Connects People and Information Across Sister Companies “We used SharePoint Server 2010 to leverage the Overview Country or Region: United States strengths in all of our various companies and tie them Industry: Financial services together for maximum synergies. At Quicken Loans we Customer Profile call this ‘pulling the threads.’” Quicken Loans has provided online mortgage services for 930,000 home Kevin McCallum, Chief Architect, Quicken Loans owners. Based in Livonia, Michigan, Quicken Loans Inc., the number one online retail mortgage Quicken Loans is part of an organization of more than 20 sister lender in the United States, has helped more than 930,000 companies. people finance their homes. Quicken Loans is the largest in a Business Situation group of companies, referred to internally as the “Family.” Quicken Loans needed to bridge Quicken Loans provides IT resources to its sister companies in disparate IT environments to develop an extranet portal where its sister order to help “pull the threads” together across the companies could find and share organization. The IT team wanted to build a solution the people, information, and resources. organization could use to bridge islands of expertise and Solution experience across company boundaries. Quicken Loans used to Quicken Loans used updated capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint build an organizational extranet where team members from Server 2010 to build an extranet portal every company in the family can find one another and share called ThreadNation.com. resources. Now, people can collaborate across business groups Benefits and IT environments to strengthen teams, accelerate projects, Collaboration across all companies Simple, positive user experience minimize redundancies, and exploit cross-company More efficient organization opportunities. Future platform for sharing information and resources
Customer Solution Case Study Online Mortgage Service Connects People and Information Across Sister Companies Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Financial services Customer Profile Quicken Loans has provided online mortgage services for 930,000 home owners. Based in Livonia, Michigan, Quicken Loans is part of an organization of more than 20 sister companies. Business Situation Quicken Loans needed to bridge disparate IT environments to develop an extranet portal where its sister companies could find and share people, information, and resources. Solution Quicken Loans used updated capabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to build an extranet portal called ThreadNation.com. Benefits Collaboration across all companies Simple, positive user experience More efficient organization Future platform for sharing information and resources “We used SharePoint Server 2010 to leverage the strengths in all of our various companies and tie them together for maximum synergies. At Quicken Loans we call this ‘pulling the threads.’” Kevin McCallum, Chief Architect, Quicken Loans Quicken Loans Inc., the number one online retail mortgage lender in the United States, has helped more than 930,000 people finance their homes. Quicken Loans is the largest in a group of companies, referred to internally as the “Family.” Quicken Loans provides IT resources to its sister companies in order to help “pull the threads” together across the organization. The IT team wanted to build a solution the organization could use to bridge islands of expertise and experience across company boundaries. Quicken Loans used to build an organizational extranet where team members from every company in the family can find one another and share resources. Now, people can collaborate across business groups and IT environments to strengthen teams, accelerate projects, minimize redundancies, and exploit cross-company opportunities.