Officegateway

www.officegateway.ca

"As small business owners, my brother and I saw the power in tools like shared calendars, customer relationship management, Webmail, and document management. Unfortunately small businesses have to spend large amounts of money to implement these tools, such as IBM Websphere, Microsoft Outlook / SharePoint / Exchange, BEA and Oracle. We know first-hand how expensive and time consuming these products are. Small businesses can't possibly make that kind of commitment. We developed Officegateway to give small business owners a chance to compete."

 

- Chris Nadeau, President - Officegateway

Company Profile

Evolving Solutions, based in Saint John, New Brunswick, provides cost-effective software development services and solutions to an array of small to mid-size businesses.  Through innovation, teamwork, superior products, and services, Evolving Solutions is passionately committed to making a significant impact in people's lives!

Challenge

Evolving Solutions wanted to offer a solution to its customers that enabled small and medium-sized businesses to use technology to achieve business growth, innovation, and success.

Before the launching of OfficeGateway (www.officegateway.ca), such sophisticated tools were only available to large enterprises with large IT budgets and a dedicated IT team. OfficeGateway was presented with the challenge to make these enterprise-style technologies affordable and available to companies ranging from 1 person start ups to an organization of 100 people or more.

Resolution

OfficeGateway developed a hosted solution that is user-friendly and affordable.  The integrated suite of portlets gives new and growing businesses essential tools to collaborate, communicate, and manage information anytime and from any Internet connection.

Evolving Solutions selected Liferay Enterprise Portal as the framework application for OfficeGateway. Liferay's framework provided the ability to create a Hosted "On Demand" Portal solution, which is comprised of a set of pre-built portlets developed by Liferay, along with customized portlets developed by Evolving Solutions and integrated with Liferay.

By leveraging Liferay's capabilities and pre-built portlets, Evolving Solutions was able to get OfficeGateway to market faster. Pre-built portlets include:

  • Shared Calendar
  • News (RSS Feeds)
  • Bookmarks
  • Polls
  • Maps
  • Stocks
  • Currency Converter
  • Translator
  • Weather
  • Dictionary

 

Portlets developed and integrated into Officegateway by Evolving Solutions:

  • Administration Portlet for the Hosted Solution
  • Support Portlet
  • WebMail
  • Contact Center
  • CRM/Invoicing Portlet - Lightweight CRM tool including opportunities, client list, sales forecast, dashboard reports, invoice tracking and reports
  • Company Directory
  • Company Announcements
  • Document Library (Shared and Individual)

 

Evolving Solutions saved hundreds of hours in time, which in return saved thousands of dollars by implementing a hosted portal solution via the Liferay framework.