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Exide Technologies
With operations in 89 countries, Exide Technologies is one of the world’s largest producers and recyclers
of lead-acid batteries. The company’s four global business groups provide a comprehensive range of
stored electrical energy products and services for industrial and transportation applications.
Challenge
Exide needed a better, more functional way to collaborate and share documents and content within a
more intuitive, organized manner on their Intranet. Exide needed a quick-to-deploy Intranet solution
that would provide them with the flexibility to support their multi-language needs, while giving them
the opportunity to establish meaningful communities and target content to the right users within their
company. After exploring the capabilities of BEA's document management functionality, Exide
determined that Enterpulse's offering provided an easier-to-use user interface and more closely
matched its specific requirements.
Solution
Many of the features Exide needed to launch a
full-scale
Intranet portal
for
its global
workforce were enterprise collaboration and
asset
management
Intranet/Extranet
capabilities
that Enterpulse already had
available within its asset repository. Taking
advantage of the pre-built, enterprise portal
features, Exide looked to Enterpulse to tailor
these reusable assets to meet their specific
business processes. Enterpulse installed the
baseline portal framework and customized
specific components to ensure the usability of
the product within
the communication
paradigms posed by Exide’s business. The
enterpulse solution provided Exide with:
• Design and Taxonomy: The team designed both a new logo (“insideEXIDE”) and two custom
look-and-feel options from which to choose as the face of the Intranet. To define the
navigation, Enterpulse also reviewed Exide’s business processes to recommend and imp