About Ecclesiastical Insurance

• Founded in the United Kingdom in 1887 with the Canadian branch opening in 1972
• Canadian offices are located in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Halifax
• Industry: Insurance

Challenges

• Ecclesiastical Insurance needed a solution that would foster communication and collaboration between multiple, disperse departments while retaining its unique company culture
• Incoming leads to Ecclesiastical needed to be captured in the portal
• Company files were located on a file share, leading to multiple versions of the truth.

Solution

• A centralized, branded WSS 3.0 based Intranet, that echoed the “look and feel” of Ecclesiastical’s website, was implemented
• A Contact Management template was installed and configured
• Team sites, document workspaces and a company News and Announcements sub-site were implemented to foster communication and collaboration
• File shares were replaced with SharePoint document libraries.

Benefits

• Improved collaboration between departments, teams and employees
• Incoming leads were captured , tracked and expedited more efficiently
• Documents within the portal were enabled with SharePoint’s document management features including versioning, check-in/check-out and support for diverse content types
• A secure, scalable and collaborative Intranet solution that can be upgraded to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server in the future.

Technologies Utilized

• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Services Deployed

• Enterprise Collaboration
• Document Mangement
• Corporate Intranet Jumpstarts