CUSTOMER: Professional Services

Business Needs: The client is an international business coaching organization that brings non-competing business owners together in a collaborative and results focused forum. The corporate organization wanted to standardize branding and deliver a consistent message through the corporate web presence and individual franchise sites. Additionally, as an organization there is significant Intellectual Property in their processes, training, and coaching. They had to have current and consistent information immediately available to all their Franchisees and their individual Franchise Clients (small business owners). Individual franchise owners needed the ability to manage their own portals within the corporate constraints while leveraging the large document library and other resources provided by the corporate entity.

Solution and Approach: Using the Aspenware Portal Framework, Content Manager, Document Manager and Forms technology, the team provided over fifty individual sites in a addition to the Corporate portal that were all driven by the same data base. Individual sites for a new franchise could be deployed in less than an hour and could be immediately configured (with-in the branding constraints) to have as many as three additional header tabs and up to 40 additional franchise specific pages. This gave the individual franchises the power of a corporate site with levels of configuration and management that allowed them to have a richly featured, local, customized presence built on the corporate infrastructure at a very reasonable rate.

Applications: Branding, Franchise Support, Forms, Intellectual Property, Directory