Business Times

Expolanka in business process transformation mode

Expolanka has speedily transformed its business process and moved to an electronic document and workflow environment with Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 in a initiative that has resulted in "delivering superior customer service and deriving real business value for the company."

Expolanka Head of IT, Asitha Kaggoda said, in a statement that the company is experiencing the multiple benefits of migrating to the SharePoint platform. "We have managed to significantly improve document collaboration and information exchange, search information relating to a customer job or business context, enable version control, saving considerable amount of real-estate and improve overall productivity enhancements."

He said the group is taking the green initiative seriously and this solution has not only saved time and cost, but also helped to reduce paper and become more environmentally-friendly. "Much of our business documentation, approvals and so on, are now accomplished online, in real time, thereby enhancing the efficiency of our freight forwarding business which by its very nature necessitates swift decision-making capabilities and speed in responding to customer needs," he added.


The Expolanka IT team spearheaded the development of the document collaboration solution using SharePoint 2010 as the technology platform. The operational benefits include the ability to share the same documents with multiple users, maintain audit trails of changes, manage information security and access, and archiving and search that have had a marked improvement in the speed of informed decision making.

From a business management perspective, the significant improvement in productivity across the organization can be attributed to the speed of access to information that is a direct benefit and the overarching philosophy behind any SharePoint based solution, the company statement added.
In addition, the collaborative platform created by Microsoft SharePoint solution has enhanced the power of internal communications of the company.

"We believe this will help us add value to our customers and provide them an efficient system and better integration with their systems for electronic document sharing. SharePoint has enabled our employees to have information at their fingertips, therebyenabling informed decision making. The familiarity with the Microsoft platform has meant practically no transition woes and the system upgrade has been smooth and user-friendly," Mr Kaggoda added.

Top to the page  |  E-mail  |  views[1]
SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend
 
Other Business Times Articles
New arrangement with the IMF
Credit concessions came too late; does nothing to lift CSE spirits: Analysts
Sri Lanka Ports Authority to arrange funds for project
SEC 'rekindles' fires of investigations
SEC to remove price bands after trading system upgrade
Harry J's HNB directorship “deemed” to have ended on Dec 31
A lotus to bloom on South Asia's tallest telecom tower
Delay tight monetary policies, stretch debt - urges IMF
Comment - Migrant workers – powerful economic force
Sri Lanka's F and B industry now fastest growing secto
Sri Lanka aims to draw Japanese investment in handlooms
Tourism to top a billion travellers this year
Dialog HRPal, SL’s first cloud based-human resource application
“Good growth” in Sri Lanka - says new SIA country GM
Eminent personalities at tourism discussion at the ST Biz Club
Identity can shape your financial future
Lassana Flora expands, develops new products
Great combine: Sri Lankan beauty and MAGGI
SEC to step up demutualisation of Colombo bourse
Gems and jewellery exhibition in Feb.
4,000 sign up for CIMA in 2011
GSK helps empower 722 disabled people with Rs 39 mln project
Krishanthi Weerasinghe appointed new CEO
50% of Colombo condos sell out pre-construction : report
SriLankan Airlines’ food at Dutch Hospital complex
Ceylon Cinnamon now authenticable via DNA barcode
SLT says shortage of tourist rooms
NCE appointing trade reps overseas to help members
Sachin Ambekar joins Leo Burnett as CCO
EFC urges HR professionals to join discussion on related issues
CCC re-launches its newsletter
UK Professor explores tenability of 'Beyond Budgeting'
Consumer Electronics: What's the future?
Expolanka in business process transformation mode
Wikipedia, others follow through with 24-hour SOPA, PIPA protest
Trade unions urge President to give official recognition to new COL unit index
Unexpected pattern at Colombo bourse
New directors at Baurs’
Footwear exporter Palla & Co. joins ERI's Ceylon Leather
Jaffna flights resume on Expo Aviation
Chartered Accountants moving with the times, leave old order behind
MARKSS Healthcare’s 2nd regional distribution hub and warehousing complex in Kandy

 

 
Reproduction of articles permitted when used without any alterations to contents and a link to the source page.
© Copyright 1996 - 2012 | Wijeya Newspapers Ltd.Colombo. Sri Lanka. All Rights Reserved | Site best viewed in IE ver 8.0 @ 1024 x 768 resolution