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.