Professional Services & Knowledge Enterprises

Digital Workplace, Employee 360 & Knowledge Experience

Connect employees to expertise, projects, clients and enterprise knowledge in one workplace experience.

Para implemented an integrated digital workplace that connected employees, expertise, projects, clients and enterprise knowledge. Employee profiles were extended with business-system project and client context, People and Project search were configured, and NetSuite integration was implemented.

Professional Services & Knowledge Enterprises Digital Workplace, Knowledge & Employee Experience Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Enterprise Applications & Integration

Business challenge

  • Employees needed easier access to expertise, project context, client context and knowledge.
  • Enterprise information was distributed across workplace content and business systems.
  • Search had to support people and project discovery, not only documents.

Para approach

  1. Define employee, project, client and knowledge information relationships.
  2. Extend employee profiles with business context.
  3. Configure people and project search experiences.
  4. Integrate NetSuite context into the workplace.
  5. Organize knowledge and search as one enterprise information experience.

How it works

Validated digital workplace and connected enterprise-information pattern. Evidence: intranet requirements, information architecture design, NetSuite integration design and deployment documentation.

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Employee Profiles

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Skills / Expertise

3

Project Context

4

Client Context

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Knowledge Hub / Search

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NetSuite Integration

Delivered capability

Employee profile foundation

Extended employee profiles with business and work context.

Skills & expertise discovery

Search and discovery patterns for people and expertise.

Project context

Project information and Project 360 style context with search.

Client context

Client and account integration, while a complete Client 360 was not fully proven.

Knowledge hub & search

Enterprise knowledge and findability patterns.

Enterprise integration

NetSuite integration supporting connected business context.

Evidence-supported outcomes

Connected workplace

Employees could access people, project, client and knowledge context within one workplace experience.

Reusable 360 foundations

The work provides reusable foundations for Employee 360 and project or client context.

Improved findability

People and project search became part of the enterprise experience.

Integration pattern

Demonstrated connection between workplace experience and business-system data.

Technology & delivery context

Historical Microsoft SharePoint intranet, profile extensions, enterprise search, content structures and NetSuite integration. Employee 360, Client 360 and skills intelligence are reusable foundations, not current packaged products.

Have a similar enterprise challenge?

Para can assess the current state, define the business and information model, shape the architecture and delivery approach, and move from business need into implementation and ongoing operations.

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