Challenge

Building a Risk Management Portal.

Investment Planning Counsel’s intranet was out of date and inefficient. Employees could not efficiently access the content they needed, and Advisors could not easily access forms and documents that were used often. The previous portal was difficult to navigate and not intuitive, being described as confusing, inefficient, and not search friendly. Overall, they were lacking a place online to communicate with advisors and store important documents.

Solution

Thinking inside and outside the box

Investment Planning Counsel was looking for a partner with experience in building public facing websites, advisor sites and intranet solutions. Veriday is a proven Liferay partner and Liferay is a strong platform for Intranet sites. Veriday also has a strong experience in the financial services industry, so this was a perfect fit for IPC.

Veriday used an Agile interactive approach to development for this project to achieve those goals, delivering work in small, but consumable, increments. Requirements, plans, and results were evaluated continuously so our team had a natural mechanism to respond to change quickly.

Result

Long-term success

This new portal consolidated numerous websites to provide a unified online presence. As a result of upgrading to The Hub, the Investment Planning Counsel saw significant results:

• Reduced clutter by 70% creating a centralized place for organized content
• Unified platform for intranet and external websites enabling sharing of content and documents
• Educational tools are now in one centralized location
• With robust reporting capabilities stakeholders can now make timely and accurate decisions, including monitoring content that is most often accessed.

We received overwhelming positive feedback on launch from the team at IPC. The results from this project reflect IPC’s goals for an improved and more efficient workflow for their Intranet solution. Veriday’s proven experience with intranet solutions and the financial services industry once again results in a happy client with a much improved product.