Business Editors & High-Tech Writers
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002
Georgia System Operations Corp. increases employee productivity
and information exchange while reducing costs
Stellent(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL), a global provider of content management solutions, announced today that Georgia System Operations Corp. (GSOC), the nation's largest electric cooperative system operator, is increasing business efficiencies and realizing cost savings using Stellent(TM) Content Management to manage content on its intranet.
GSOC implemented Stellent Content Management to combine three distinct organizations' document repositories into a single enterprise platform. The energy companies -- Oglethorpe Power, Georgia Transmission and Georgia System Operations -- have 750 non-technical employees that contribute content to the Stellent Content Server in native formats such as word processing, spreadsheet and graphic files. The system automatically converts the content into a variety of Web formats, such as HTML, XML and PDF.
"By empowering non-technical employees with the tools to manage and publish content on the intranet, the Stellent system has freed up some of our IT staff to work on more critical IT systems projects," said Gary Williamson, chief director of information technology for GSOC. "Before the Stellent implementation, our storage requirements were growing almost uncontrollably. Our three companies stored data haphazardly on our Novell file server system, so there was never one place for storing or sharing company content. Stellent Content Management has enabled us to create an intranet site for the hundreds of thousands of documents already in our existing system, generating cost savings as well as increased productivity for the companies."
Stellent's robust security and personalization features enable GSOC to provide its three companies with a shared intranet, allowing appropriate cross-company access to documents while giving each separate company its own secure portion of the intranet. User profiles authenticate employees' company affiliations and access rights on the intranet, ensuring employees only access content they are entitled to see. The Stellent system also provides users with unique interfaces to the intranet based on their profiles.
"GSOC, in a high-pressure utility market, has turned to Stellent Content Management to help it gain control over an enormous volume of business content, including word processing, graphic and multimedia files," said Vern Hanzlik, president and chief executive officer for Stellent. "GSOC is a prime example of how companies worldwide are gaining efficiencies and reducing expenses by using our content management technology."
To view an in-depth case study of the Stellent Content Management implementation at GSOC, visit http://www.stellent.com/gsoc.
Stellent Content Management Features
Stellent Content Management enables customers to rapidly deploy line-of-business Web sites as well as content management solutions for enterprise initiatives such as enterprise portals and business commerce applications. The system Web-enables business content by aggregating content from multiple sources, converting it to Web formats, managing and publishing it to the Web, and personalizing it for specific audiences, devices and applications. Stellent Content Management offers the widest array of content contribution and content delivery mechanisms on the market, enabling any user to contribute any kind of content into the system for conversion, management and delivery to any kind of consumer or application. The system also integrates with existing security systems and provides business personalization features. For information on how to obtain the Stellent Content Management system, contact Stellent at 1-800-989-8774.
About Stellent, Inc.
Stellent, Inc. (www.stellent.com) is a global provider of content management solutions. The company's Stellent Content Management system enables customers to rapidly deploy line-of-business Web sites as well as content management solutions for enterprise initiatives such as enterprise portals and business commerce applications. Stellent has been ranked one of the top three content management vendors by industry analyst firms Gartner Dataquest, Giga Information Group and Aberdeen Group, and has more than 1,500 customers, including much of the Global 2000. Its customer roster includes Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, Los Angeles County, British Red Cross, Target Corp., Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard and Ericsson Telecom AB. Stellent is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn. and maintains offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
About Georgia System Operations Corp.
Georgia System Operations Corp. was established in 1996 to support 39 electric membership cooperatives in Georgia by ensuring reliable system operations, enabling energy market participants to transact business, and providing services that offer the benefits of technology or economies of scale. GSOC operates the generation and transmission systems for Oglethorpe Power Corp. and Georgia Transmission Corp. Visit the company's Web site at www.gasoc.com. Learn about Oglethorpe Power and Georgia Transmission by visiting www.opc.com and www.gatrans.com.
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