Customer Case
By Reinier Hulsman, Head ICT VolkerWessels
Telecom ICT
Spring 2010
Telecom projects driven by Microsoft SharePoint
Technology using Ometa Solutions
VolkerWessels Telecom is one of the many divisions of the VolkerWessels Group. With a specialisation
in the Telecom Networking, VolkerWessels Telecom runs on yearly basis several thousands of projects. These projects can become only
successful with a daily strong collaboration
between Network providers, various involved construction companies and possible
involved third parties (customers, government,...).
The information flow within
one project is massive, for each project the necessary plans, permits,
underground plans, drawings, financial statuses, material consumption, project
resource consumption and many more. The
project management and information types depend mainly on the type of
project. A tertiary network project
which involves end customer network connections, are huge in volume and are
short in duration. While primary network services and secondary network
services are more complex projects with many document flow as often various
government certificates and permits are necessary.
To manage all these projects
in a successful manner VW’s Telecom selected Microsoft SharePoint as their collaboration platform. Bringing
people together around information and business processes is one of the strong
advantages of SharePoint.
To connect all these
SharePoint sites with the various backoffice applications, VolkerWessels
selected Ometa. Ometa has strong technology and many years of experience in
connecting SharePoint sites with various backoffice systems.
The several thousands of
projects are all different SharePoint Site Collections with different users,
different connectivity requirements and different systems. Ometa delivers an
out of the box solution that makes it possible to generate SharePoint Site
Collections and depending on the business context discloses the necessary
information from various backoffices to the proper project sites.
Reinier Hulsman : “ We
needed a platform that could support complex ERP transactions in combination
with approval workflows. The number of projects, involved parties and transactions
created a need for an integration platform that is built for large enterprises”
.
The Ometa multi context
transaction manager supports multi cpu processing allowing to manage the
transactions a-synchronic from the Portal requests. This guarantees scalable
performance for each of our projects. The Ometa framework allows managing the
integration without having the necessary knowledge about SharePoint.
Maintenance and development costs are kept to an absolute minimum.
At any given time we can
trace the incoming transactions, their status and manage the permissions.
SharePoint becomes for VolkerWessels a user-friendly Portal interface layer
without bringing in new complexity in the backoffice system.
Company Profile Snapshot
VolkerWessels is a close-knit group of
companies working in construction and related fields. Its 100 operating
companies trade as independent entities with their own profit and market
responsibility.
VolkerWessels is active in The
Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Estland, UK, USA and Canada. With 17.000
employees worldwide working daily on a clear mission statement.