Corporate portal market- leader Plumtree Software today announced that Maple Leaf Foods, a Toronto- based global food processing company, has deployed the Plumtree Corporate Portal enterprise-wide to 3,500 employees in the corporate headquarters and throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Plumtree-powered myMapleLeaf, will bring together community workgroups, project management capabilities from Open Text Livelink, business intelligence data from Cognos, company news and policies, expense reporting, and HR information in a single, scalable Web platform. By providing one point of entry for timely and cost effective delivery of information, services and applications company-wide, myMapleLeaf helps streamline internal communication, increase employee productivity and improve departmental collaboration. Global professional services provider Andersen Consulting provided integration support for myMapleLeaf.
What's in myMapleLeaf?
To assemble a complete view of their work through MyMapleLeaf, employees can choose Plumtree Gadget Web Services, portal components that integrate electronic resources from enterprise applications and Internet sites. Employees can visit MyMapleLeaf for:
-- a Finance Community which aggregates key performance metrics, tasks
lists and documents across departmental finance teams;
-- an HR Community which aggregates training materials, thought-leader
articles, HR policies and documents, and eventually HR self-service for
benefits;
-- a Six Sigma Community which aggregates project milestones, course
registration and scheduling, discussion threads and reporting;
-- sales reports from Cognos;
-- project management capabilities from Open Text Livelink;
-- e-mail and calendar from Microsoft Exchange;
-- expense reporting;
-- HR messages and information; and
-- company news and policies.
Previously, the finance team at Maple Leaf Foods would communicate through e-mail and public folders on Microsoft Outlook, but now with MyMapleLeaf, they can communicate across teams, view key performance indicators, and review team and individual to-do lists through the Finance Community, saving time and reducing network traffic.
"The portal will allow us to communicate with our distributed enterprise on a consistent basis," said Mike Vels, executive vice-president of finance at Maple Leaf Foods. "myMapleLeaf unifies our communications to employees and brings together company applications and services information in a non- intimidating way, magnifying the power of the business desktop."
"myMapleLeaf demonstrates the benefits of a corporate portal in the manufacturing space by lowering application delivery costs," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "By marshalling the company's electronic assets to a business desktop, myMapleLeaf is empowering Maple Leaf Foods to collaborate better and improve productivity."
Maple Leaf Foods
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (Toronto: MFI chart, msgs) is a leading Canadian-based food processing company. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the Company employs more than 14,000 people at its operations across Canada and in the United States, Europe and Asia.
About Plumtree Software
Plumtree Software is creating a simple, personalized Web portal to the information and applications that businesses use every day. Plumtree's extensible portal platform organizes links to different types of corporate documents in a Web directory, and assembles application and Internet services from different systems in a personalized Web page. Plumtree embeds services from other systems in its portal platform using plug-in components called Plumtree Gadget Web Services, which can be developed in a wide variety of programming environments, on a broad range of platforms. Hundreds of Gadget Web Services have been developed by Plumtree and its partners, integrating into the portal application services and content from such vendors as Business Objects, Documentum, IBM, Microsoft, SAP, Siebel Systems and others. Plumtree's strategy is to build a network of portal technology and deployment expertise that is unmatched in the industry. Plumtree has systems integrator partners including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Computer Sciences Corporation and IBM Global Services, and over 300 customers, including Ford Motor Company and Procter & Gamble. To learn more about Plumtree, visit www.plumtree.com, or see a demonstration at corporateportal.com. |
