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PZ Cussons is rolling out its internal intranet initiative, ‘Spark’, globally which is designed to fuel creativity and innovation among employees. Deployed from ‘Wazobia’, PZ Cussons’ SharePoint-based intranet, Spark and other sites have proven to be engaging destinations for employees on a daily basis.

Recognising that default SharePoint may struggle to ignite the imaginations of users, PZ Cussons onboarded Quest® Web Parts for SharePoint to help maximise employee engagement by creating an attractive and intuitive application that would feature functionally-rich text, images and charts, to create a more powerful collaboration tool. Without the time or investment to build bespoke applications, PZ Cussons was able to turn to Quest to create a richly formatted site in just days rather than weeks, saving the company over £8,000 on this project alone. Business leads were also able to part-build their own sites allowing greater control of design, reducing the pressure on IT and eliminating the need to employ expensive SharePoint developers.

Quest Web Parts has also been used to create a site for PZ Cussons’ supply chain team, enhancing the way the team can work collaboratively in real-time. As the supply chain team constantly needs to monitor the costs of raw materials and products, being able to access this information in a central location, at any moment, and view price changes instantly is imperative. The site is updated in real-time and graphs are used to quickly distinguish fluctuations which is important to the business.

PZ Cussons will also be considering Quest SharePoint migration tools to prepare for the company’s future upgrade to SharePoint 2010, and will also be reviewing Quest’s SharePoint management tools to further enhance the reliability and efficiency of Spark.

Quest Web Parts for SharePoint offers quick and easy functionality through configurable SharePoint web parts and application templates.