American Institutes for Research (AIR) puts vision and
mission into practice on the intranet
i3solutions and Mondosoft help AIR achieve its goal of “using the best science available to bring the most effective ideas and approaches to enhancing everyday life."
Sterling, VA- November 10, 2006.
i3solutions and
Mondosoft teamed up to create a robust intranet solution with superior search capabilities. The solution, created for American Institutes for Research (AIR), helps improve the usability of its intranet by streamlining access to information, reducing costs, and decreasing webpage maintenance effort. i3solutions has a rich history of deploying over 165 successful Microsoft SharePoint projects because of its reputation of repeatable best practices process. Because this
reputation for excellence on the SharePoint Platform, AIR engaged the services of i3solutions, to completely redesign its intranet..
AIR:
Enhancing everyday life
AIR is one of the largest behavioral and social science
research organizations in the world. With the decision to
optimize the intranet, AIR is “walking the walk of
bringing the most effective ideas
and approaches to enhancing everyday life ś this time for
its employees.
Customizing
the intranet to suit the needs of the AIR
i3solutions conducted its proprietary SharePoint portal
development methodology to define the new direction of the
intranet. After analyzing these results, i3solutions created
concrete, tailored recommendations based on Microsoft's
SharePoint. “The SharePoint solution will provide the
power and flexibility AIR needs for the most effective,
user-friendly intranet, said Al Himler, i3solutions Vice
President of Delivery Services. “In addition, it will
decrease costs and effort associated with maintaining a less
streamlined intranet site as this solution will completely
transform the way AIR manages internal knowledge and
conducts its business.
To further expand and enhance this SharePoint solution,
i3solutions implemented software from Mondosoft, a leading
enterprise search company, and implemented its SharePoint
search engine ś Ontolica. Ontolica,
built over Microsoft's SharePoint environment, ensured more
robust search and information retrieval for AIR's new
intranet site. Mondosoft is a Microsoft Gold Certified
Partner and offers a comprehensive suite of enterprise
search, analytics and site optimization products to
facilitate effortless intranet navigation.
i3solutions integrated Mondosoft's Ontolica'® for SharePoint'®,
to further enhance SharePoint's existing search features.
Some of Ontolica's '® benefits include:
'·
Advanced
drill-down possibilities
'·
Improved
search on custom properties
'·
Enhanced
people search
'·
Custom
Search Result layouts
'·
Powerful
Boolean search capabilities
Ontolica's myriad of benefits, combined with i3solutions'
custom SharePoint consultation and development capabilities
have converted AIR's intranet from a simple data storage
center to a usable, powerful knowledge management
repository.
Mondosoft and i3solutions will be
partnering again on
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 for a seminar entitled, “Powering SharePoint
through Enhanced Search and Custom Development. This
free seminar in Reston,
VA
will include presentations from Mondosoft, i3solutions and
AIR to provide various perspectives on search enhancement
and custom development in a SharePoint environment.
For more information and to register for the free
seminar,
click here.
About Mondosoft
Mondosoft offers a comprehensive suite of enterprise search,
analytics and site optimization products to make Web sites,
intranets and portals easier to navigate for users and to
provide feedback for improved site quality and efficiency
for owners. Founded in 1998, Mondosoft has dual headquarters
in Copenhagen, Denmark and Palo Alto,
California, as well as branch offices in Asia
and Europe. For further
information, please visit
http://www.mondosoft.com.
About American Institute for Research
Founded in 1946 as a nonprofit organization, AIR
is motivated by the desire to enhance the human experience.
AIR's work spans a wide range of areas, including
education, psychology, sociology, economics, psychometrics,
statistics, public health, usability engineering, software
design, graphics and video communications ťall in the search
for innovative answers to any challenge. For further
information, please visit
http://www.air.org/
About i3solutions
i3solutions is an IT consulting firm specializing in Strategic
Consulting, Application Development, System Integration and Portal Solutions
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