Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information, and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.

 

Symantec’s Finance Group was desperately in need of a solution that would allow them to share various financial reports that were being generated by internal applications such as the Oracle Hyperion Suite of Tools.  Having up to date reports that were searchable was crucial to budgeting and forecasting managers.

 

In addition, the Finance Group needed to establish a portal to communicate a report-publishing schedule and application maintenance downtime.  A key goal was to ensure users with proper privileges would have the ability to update content such as news, calendars, reports, policies, and various sections of the Portal.  In order to ensure regulatory compliance, Symantec’s Finance Group needed to ensure all content updates be reviewed prior to going live.

 

 

SharePointAce designed a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Portal with custom reports to meet the necessary features and functionality.  Working closely with stakeholders, we:

 

 

With the new Portal in place, all business stakeholders and managers now have a single source for business intelligence and reports.  By having reports automatically published by background applications, staff members are able to focus on more critical business tasks.  Overall, productivity was increased across the organization.