Ofgem, the regulator for the gas and
electricity markets, has selected Parity to construct a new
document management system and website to improve its
operations.
The first stage of the project is the launch of a new website
that will play a key role in helping market players and consumers
find information about gas and electricity regulation, changes and
news that could affect them.
The new website will enable better and quicker access to gas and
electricity market information for both consumers and businesses.
The second phase of the project is to include a comprehensive
internal employee intranet and document management system.
The content and document management process of the website is
supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which manages
how people find and share information across boundaries.
Ofgem is one of the first UK public sector organisations to
implement this software.
This product will significantly improve document management and
records management, helping Ofgem to achieve cost savings and
improve efficiency through speedier data access and
collaboration.
Nick Simpson, director of enterprise content management at Ofgem
said, “As a national watchdog we have a duty to provide
stakeholders with the most comprehensive information on gas and
electricity markets available and to promote competition in the UK
market.
“We can now publish this content far more efficiently and
quickly and everyone can find the information and navigate around
the new website far more intuitively.”
The public accessing the new Ofgem website can search for and
retrieve information from approximately 16,000 documents that are
constantly updated.
Ofgem staff can now publish new content more efficiently using
the new platform, which will save them time and reduce costs.
Simpson said, “The new internal intranet will also help our
staff to work together more effectively by making it easier to
retrieve and share information.
“Currently there are 1.2 million documents saved in our internal
files, our current system makes it very difficult to search for and
access these files. In some instances employees have turned to the
website to find a document because they could not locate it on the
internal network,” said Simpson.
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