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The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS)
Case Study
Solution Overview “ Very responsive ... flat out know their stuff … good team of people
to call upon. We have enjoyed our association with ovionx and
Company Size: 30
expect to work with them for quite some time to come.”
Industries — John Henley
• Advertising and media sales COO – The Center for Sales Strategy
Needs
• Customer relationship
The Center for Sales Strategy (CSS), established in 1983, is a consulting and
• Enterprise integration training firm specializing in the needs of media, advertising, and marketing
Technologies sales organizations. CSS helps its clients develop Sales management,
• Microsoft .Net Framework Salespeople, and Sales.
• Microsoft SQL Server
• DotNetNuke
• Training Partner
Benefits
• Improved product quality
• Increased agility
• Improved security
• Reduced complexity
modifications to the content delivery approach would give them greater
mechanism since the delivered leverage in customization or
functionality of one program could adaptation to just about any future
impact another. application integration.
CSS found the open source
Solution communities had a lot to offer.
Open source software is software
CSS recognized that an integrated for which the source code and
approach would greatly benefit the certain other rights are in the public
organization. The solution was to domain. This permits users to use
implement a Service Oriented and change the software. CSS
Architecture (SOA) approach. This decided to implement the
approach consists of loosely coupled DotNetNuke platform, the most
functions, programs, or resources widely adopted open source
that are integrated to maximize their framework for website content
management and web application
utility. Delivering a unified,
consistent, and convenient way of development on Microsoft ASP.NET.
accessing information would help The extensibility of this platform
staff to achieve their business made it easy to integrate other
objectives easily and consistently. programs and business processes
and make them available from the
The two major goals of this approach
are agility and faster accessibility to Web. This approach made it
pertinent information. Integrating possible to integrate the document
components proven useful to CSS library into the platform and help
into a dashboard approach meant ensure that the available content
that staff would not have to cross‐ was up‐to‐date. The modular
train in different platforms but use a approach the platform provides
opened the doors to a large number
single interface that everyone was
familiar with. of third‐party vendors offering a
wide range of functionality and
The solution needed to facilitate a applications. These commercially
centralized approach to managing available applications are easy to
access and user information. This implement into the platform and
centralized data source would be are reasonably priced.
able to better handle security in a
consistent manner and control which A detailed review of the existing
resources the user can access, how online learning platform revealed
much access, and for how long. that it was simply not feasible to
Additionally, user information would extend or modify the platform
be consistent across all areas of the without an extensive and expensive
system. After a considerable overhaul. Advances in online
learning technology and the
requirements gathering process, CSS
felt that a custom solution, later growing Learning Management
labeled the Global Data Store (GDS), Systems (LMS) industry have
was the preferred approach. This
Increased agility
By implementing this custom
solution, CSS is able to produce and
publish content twice as fast. The
mechanisms embedded into the new
Content Management System (CMS)
make posting content much easier
and efficient. The need to depend on
a developer or web designer to
constantly update or mange their
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