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Practical Action is a charity registered in the United Kingdom which works directly in four regions of the developing world Latin America, East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia, with particular concentration on Peru, Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. In these countries, Practical Action works with poor communities to develop
appropriate technologies in food production, agro processing, energy, transport, small enterprise development, shelter and disaster mitigation.
Business Challenges
Global Intranet required to improve communications and collaboration. The key requirements were:
Self service on departmental, project and personal sites
Easy search of documents, data and people to minimise replication
High availability even in countries with poor WAN links
Platform for future development and integration of other business systems
Localised language support (English and Spanish)
The Solution Benefits Ridgian implemented a SharePoint portal that delivered the following functionality : Customised sites and applications
Coveo Search for sophisticated search and indexing
Syntergy Replication for local country based servers |