Gardner Smith

The Requirement

The Gardner Smith Group’s existing website didn’t reflect the company’s diversity, synergies and commitment to using the latest technologies and innovations to offer comprehensive solutions to its customers.

Ease of use, flexibility, versatility, and the ability to create and easily maintain satellite websites all with distinctive, contemporary looks were some of the criteria Gardner Smith had identified as core requirements. Other requirements included:

• Improved communication with target markets via newsletters and forms
• Tracking usage of the site
• A secure extranet for staff, clients and suppliers
• Online forms (with workflow) for corporate governance
• Devolving the responsibility for updating content, with appropriate approval processes
• Dispensing with third party involvement

The Solution

Elcom’s Community Manager.NET is a flexible and versatile web content creation and management engine with the potential to act as a web portal when coupled with one of its plug in modules – the multi-site module. The Gardner Smith Portal and satellite sites use the Community Manager.NET platform and the following modules:

• Multi-site
• Form creator
• Workflow
• Security/Membership
• Mailing list/email marketing
• Web statistics
• Question It
• Site filtering

The Benefits

• Efficient management of multiple sites
• Ability to easily create new and distinctive sites whenever needed and to enforce corporate branding standards
• Easy content creation and management through workflows
• Access to the solution anywhere, anytime
• Stable, reliable, secure and versatile technologies
• Highly functional application that can be leveraged in the future through the use of plug-in modules