About Casco Development

• Developer of ShopVue 5.0, real-time shop floor data collection and reporting software
• Head Office located in Casco Bay in Portland, Maine, USA
• Customers include Fortune 500 firms
• Industry: Software Development

Challenges

• Casco Development wanted to move their existing HTML website to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007(MOSS 2007)
• After initially starting the transition of their existing site to SharePoint they required further SharePoint expertise
• Casco required a registration form to be created that anonymous visitors would be required to fill out when viewing website documents, including brochures and case studies
• Captured registration details needed to be written to a SharePoint list in order to help Casco better understand their website demographics.

Solution

• Casco chose SharePointHQ to deploy their SharePoint-based corporate Internet site
• Working with Casco, SharePointHQ delivered a custom master page, page layouts, and CSS that matched Casco’s brand “look and feel”
• Content from the old site was migrated to the new site by SharePointHQ and Casco’s content authors
• SharePointHQ developed a customized registration form that is launched when a link to a document file is selected by a user who has not already registered
• A custom SharePoint list captures all of the registration information when the form is submitted
• Casco content authors were given training on publishing site content.

Benefits

• Casco now has a SharePoint-based corporate Internet, that is extensible, scalable and easy to maintain and modify within the MOSS 2007 platform
• All registration information is captured directly in SharePoint and SharePoint out-of-the-box functionality is leveraged to sort and filter the data
• Casco is not required to maintain a separate database with this information given that SharePoint’s built-in functionality is used
• Casco Development website remains as an anonymous access website
• Casco’s content authors can concentrate on publishing their content and not coding.

Technologies Utilized

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• SharePoint Designer

Services Deployed

• Public Facing Internet Websites
• Communities and Partner Extranets
• .Net Web Part Development
• Branding and User Interface Design