Case Study of Timbercorp

The state of our intranet and document management systems was damaging the credibility of the IT department within the business.
- Luke Johnson, IT Services Manager, Timbercorp.



Situation: Established in 1987, Timbercorp is Australia’s leading agribusiness investment manager. The company finds, funds, and manages high-quality, large-scale agribusiness projects for its 18,000 investors around the country. Since 1992, Timbercorp has managed more than A$1.7 billion in funds. It has 180 staff and is responsible for another 1,500 employees and contractors throughout regional Australia. Timbercorp developed and now manages 12 per cent of Australia’s eucalypt plantations, producing woodchips for export to Japan…



Case Study of Timbercorp


Solution: In early 2007, Philip Faure attended an information session on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and realized the product had all the functionality Timbercorp required in a single platform. The company decided to implement Office SharePoint Server 2007, and selected Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Professional Advantage, to help. “Professional Advantage had a strong infrastructure team and offered in-depth knowledge of the SharePoint Server platform,” says Faure. “They were also able to meet with us, get engineers on site, and have the project up and running in a timely manner, something other providers we talked to couldn’t guarantee.” The implementation took place between March and July 2007…
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