Gimmal works alongside Marathon to turn ungoverned, out of date share drives into a unified portal used by global workforce to create, find, and share relevant information
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Houston, TX – January 21, 2010 – The Microsoft Global Energy Forum returns to Houston and once again provides a specialized forum for energy executives to hear how their peers are using a combination of resources to address their IT challenges. A common factor being faced by all the presenting companies was how to make it the right information available to knowledge workers in an acceptable time frame.
Marathon Oil Company had the foresight to recognize that they needed to quickly address their “mountain” of information and sought to build collaboration systems using familiar user interfaces. By using Microsoft SharePoint and working with Gimmal, Marathon planned their strategy, deployed a multi-level collaboration portal and communicated the vision to a global workforce.
In addition to collaboration and being able to access documents efficiently, organizations want to leverage the content governance and records management capabilities of SharePoint, which are some of the benefits of Gimmal’s SharePoint Enterprise Framework. In booth #12 of the Microsoft Global Energy Forum, attendees will discover how SharePoint can be utilized for governance, provisioning, share drive migration, and the implementation of a multitude of standard sites within the organization. This results in improved document and records access for information workers, while delivering standardized information management, including full records management and retention schedule management across all content and records repositories. Gimmal’s SharePoint Enterprise Framework improves business productivity while delivering legal compliance, risk reduction and lower overall cost of ownership.
“Marathon has proven by properly utilizing MOSS 2007 technology, it is possible to deploy an enterprise-scale SharePoint-based architecture that enforces corporate information governance policy, manages record retention schedules, and provides collaboration tools that stimulate and encourage knowledge sharing.,” said David Quackenbush, President of Gimmal Group.
Title: Maraview – Marathon’s Enterprise Content Management Solution
When: Thursday, January 21st 1:30 – 2:20p.m.
Presenter: Reid Smith, ECM Director, Marathon
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