174 Power Global

Summary:

174 Power Global, a large solar developer with over 55 utility scale solar plants, came to HingePoint with the problem of recovering from a poor migration. The main problem was that they needed a new collaborative environment that would enhance data security (some documents were being shared anonymously rendering most previous data insecure), and needed a toolset for working with external parties securely. This client also was unaware of what SharePoint, Teams, or OneDrive was capable of, so they required some additional custom training. HingePoint was able to created a customized SharePoint document management system (DMS) that integrates with Salesforce and supports the project management system of all 55 utility scale solar plants, implement Teams Collaboration (Viva portal), and migrated from local servers and drives to the new environment. We also trained over 200 employees with no experience leveraging SharePoint Project Management.

Systems Integrated

The Challenge

  • A poor migration from Box.net put all files to the root site
  • Poor security allowed anonymous sharing over 1,100 times, rendering most data insecure
  • Need a new collaborative environment for solar plant development
  • Needed tools for securely working with external parties
  • No understanding of SharePoint, Teams or OneDrive so they needed a lot of training and mentoring
  • Support was lacking from MSPs and no IT department

The Solutions

  • Created a customized SharePoint document management system (DMS) that supports the project management system of all 55 utility scale solar plants
  • Teams Collaboration, Viva portal
  • Migration of all files from old system (local drives) and older SharePoint sites to new environment
  • Training of 200 employees with no experience leveraging SharePoint Project Management tools, OneDrive, and MS Teams
  • Saleforce Integration that maintained all existing project data, and user permissions
  • Division Hub for acquired company

Ongoing Benefits

  • Fully secured DMS
  • All users trained
  • All documents migrated and validated – nothing was lost
  • Enterprise Google-like search
  • Folders standardized for the one-stop-shop
  • SharePoint, Teams, Salesforce help all from one partner, HingePoint
  • Migrated companies they acquired or divested from

Who Was Helped:

  • CEO had a newly organized and user friendly Intranet
  • Legal and compliance team
  • Department managers
  • Staff had a one-stop-shop
  • CIO had a trusted team to develop in an outsourced partner
  • Managers had trackers in SharePoint superior to Excel tools