Customer Solution Case Study Food-Processing Giant Delivers Extensible Solution, Cuts Maintenance Costs Two-Thirds “By replacing a Documentum environment with one Overview Country or Region: United States based on SharePoint, we are reducing those Industry: Manufacturing maintenance costs by two-thirds.” Customer Profile Rebecca Wilson, Project Leader, Productivity Management Tyson Foods Since its founding in 1935, Tyson Foods has grown to become one of the world’s largest producers of Tyson Foods, one of the world’s leading producers of protein protein products. products, needed a more extensible solution for scanning, Business Situation storing, and providing access to thousands of document images. Tyson Foods relies heavily on sophisticated image management, but A solution based on EMC2 Documentum Platform and installed its existing solution was difficult to in 2006 was difficult to customize or extend to new user groups enhance and extend and costly to support and maintain. and costly to maintain. IT executives, who were already familiar with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a collaboration Solution Tyson Foods migrated its platform, decided to move the Documentum-based management solution and management solution to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 simultaneously upgraded its collaboration environment to Microsoft Enterprise while upgrading their collaboration solution to that SharePoint Server 2010. same platform. Now, employees have far greater access to Benefits image management, new development is done in just Easy solution enhancement and of the time, and maintenance costs have been reduced extension Development time down by nearly by two-thirds. 75 percent Maintenance costs down by
Customer Solution Case Study Food-Processing Giant Delivers Extensible Solution, Cuts Maintenance Costs Two-Thirds Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Manufacturing Customer Profile Since its founding in 1935, Tyson Foods has grown to become one of the world’s largest producers of protein products. Business Situation Tyson Foods relies heavily on sophisticated image management, but its existing solution was difficult to enhance and extend and costly to support and maintain. Solution Tyson Foods migrated its solution and simultaneously upgraded its collaboration environment to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Benefits Easy solution enhancement and extension Development time down by nearly 75 percent Maintenance costs down by “By replacing a Documentum environment with one based on SharePoint, we are reducing those maintenance costs by two-thirds.” Rebecca Wilson, Project Leader, Productivity Management Tyson Foods Tyson Foods, one of the world’s leading producers of protein products, needed a more extensible solution for scanning, storing, and providing access to thousands of document images. A solution based on EMC2 Documentum Platform and installed in 2006 was difficult to customize or extend to new user groups and costly to maintain. IT executives, who were already familiar with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a collaboration platform, decided to move the Documentum-based solution to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise while upgrading their collaboration solution to that same platform. Now, employees have far greater access to image management, new development is done in just of the time, and maintenance costs have been reduced by two-thirds. management management
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