Aeliapedia : An Intranet at the heart of your Business

• Market : Distribution
• Needs : Better the internal information system and the communication between the different services
• Solution : Intranet
• Product : XWiki Entreprise Manager

"XWiki's main strengths are its flexibility, its ease and speed of integration in an existing information system and the fact that users could become autonomous within a short amount of time. XWiki helped the company address various needs by bridging the gap between public data and professional data processing. XWiki offered Aelia the best of both worlds"

Context

The growth of the company and the rising volume of unstructured information brought up the need for a new intranet system. The new system would allow for information management to be more centralized and organized. It would also encourage better collaboration between employees and services.

Needs

Aelia was looking for :

• A federating tool that would allow information to be structured
• An easy-to-use tool that would make information available to everyone throughout the organization.
• A universal tool aiming at solving a broad range of needs.

Aeliapedia

The Aeliapedia intranet was developed to answer Aelia's needs. The project was carried out by the DOSI (Direction of Information System and Organization) and the Communication Department. After a pilot phase, which started in the beginning of 2008, the new Aeliapedia intranet was officially launched in March 2009. Based on XWiki Enterprise, the new intranet combines today more than 10 wikis, including Aelia Group wiki, Stores management, and Aelia campus.

2500 pages already created before the official launch

Before the official launch in 2009, more than 2500 pages and 1000 products sheets were created, and the project had already recorded more than one hundred contributors out of Aelia’s 2,000 employees.