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Neighborly Care Network
Case Study
Solution Overview “They worked closely with our CITRIX partners to integrate even
more functionality and ease of maintenance in a DotNetNuke
Company Size: 75
architecture. This allows our small staff to react quickly in a
Industries changing business environment, and still project a supremely
• Community‐based services professional presence on the web.”
Needs —David Lind
CIO – Neighborly Care Network
• Enterprise integration
Technologies Neighborly is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of dedicated employees
• Microsoft .Net Framework
• Microsoft SQL Server
and volunteers whose mission is improved health, wellness and
• DotNetNuke independent living for individuals and families. Neighborly Care Network
• Citrix Presentation Server
has been providing health and wellness programs to seniors and their
Benefits families for 43 years.
• Reduced development costs
• Enhanced departmental and
inter‐departmental
communications
• Reduced complexity
• Improved customer service
Products and services
Business Situation static pages. Each page had
Microsoft .Net Framework
functionality embedded in it such as
As a not‐for‐profit, Neighborly is calendaring, news, and documents
The .NET Framework is
continually trying to maximize the which could only be administered
Microsoft's comprehensive
and consistent programming level of benefits and resources they through a back‐end interface by an
model for building provide to their members. Part of this administrator. While the functionality
applications that have visually
effort includes minimizing operational had been adequate for the past
stunning user experiences,
seamless and secure costs and achieving operational several years, Neighborly was seeking
communication, and the to do more. They wanted to be
ability to model a range of efficiencies wherever possible. An
business processes. example is Neighborly’s flexible enough to adapt new
implementation of Citrix. Citrix is a functionality in the future without
Microsoft SQL Server the expense of hiring a web
platform that allows delivery of
Microsoft SQL Server is a applications as a service providing on‐ development firm at every turn. They
comprehensive, integrated demand access to users. With the were also evaluating opportunities to
data management and
implementation of this platform, make their website more interactive
analysis software that enables
Neighborly was able to dramatically and add a corporate Intranet. The
organizations to reliably
manage mission‐critical cut hardware and maintenance costs organization envisioned an Intranet
information and confidently across the board. that not only allowed them to keep in
run today’s increasingly touch with their staff, but also to
complex business Neighborly conducts internal improve coordination among
applications.
assessments on an ongoing basis. departments.
DotNetNuke These assessments are designed,
among other things, to evaluate their
DotNetNuke® is the most
widely adopted open source
administrative and operational Solution
framework for website processes and procedures. As a result
content management and of these assessments, Neighborly After careful review, it became
web application development began to seek opportunities to use apparent that an integrated
on Microsoft ASP.NET.
emerging technologies to revamp their solution would address all of their
DotNetNuke has been
downloaded over 6,000,000 web presence and improve the needs. Neighborly chose to
times, is in use on over functionality and utility they provided. implement DotNetNuke (DNN), an
400,000 production websites, open‐source web application
has a thriving user
framework, as their platform for
Technical Situation
community, and features a
huge array of available third‐ this project. DNN is a robust and
party extensions. highly scalable platform that not
Neighborly was seeking to leverage only provides out‐of‐the‐box
their investment in their Citrix modular functionality, but also
implementation. The only means of provides a high level of extensibility.
accessing applications via Citrix was The modularized approach DNN
using a separate portal application provides allows administrators or
provided by the vendor. content editors to develop and
maintain their own site and their
The Neighborly website had been in
own page structure. While most all
place for several years and provided
of the functionality Neighborly was
minimal content management
seeking to implement was part of
capabilities. The functionality on the
the out‐of‐the‐box solution, a few
website was structured into several
Benefits
Reduced development costs
By implementing this custom
solution, Neighborly was able to
reduce and sometimes avoid the web
development costs associated with
providing new functionality and
content management.
Enhanced departmental and inter‐
departmental communications
As part of the Intranet solution,
Neighborly departmentalized their
content and assigned editors from
each department. The ability to
concentrate on delivering
department‐specific content
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