Case Study – Previsor
PreVisor – Robust, Global Document Management System
PreVisor, the union of Qwiz, ePredix and PDRI, helps employers identify top performers. With a history dating back to the 1960’s, PreVisor has gathered mountains of empirical data correlating pre-employment assessment scores to performance. Leveraging this data and decades of industrial-organizational psychology research, PreVisor develops pre-employment assessments that accurately predict on-the-job performance. PreVisor's award-winning content, consulting and solutions, support hiring decisions and maximize performance for 25,000 employers worldwide.
Business Challenges
PreVisor was looking for a robust document management system that would be easy to implement and deploy to many different locations around the world. They also needed a comprehensive solution with full document lifecycle support, giving the users the ability to create, edit, approve and distribute their own documents in both an Intranet and Extranet environment. Additionally, flexible licensing and open source technology were important to implement the company’s strategy to use in-house development resources.
“I looked at dozens of different Document Management Systems over six months and none hit our sweet spot until Alfresco. The application looks and behaves beautifully and intuitively”
Integrating Alfresco across a Secure Intranet and Extranet
PreVisor needed to replace their existing Intranet. In addition, other ‘mini-apps’, like a searchable Request for Proposal (RFP) database needed replacing.
PreVisor will be integrating Alfresco into Active Directory and into their partner and client “extranet”. This is a single integrated platform for Intranet and Extranet that allows secure document lifecycles to start in the Intranet and result in a finished document residing in a partner, Extranet Space, accessed by a web application. I addition, PreVisor’s RFP database functionality will now be provided by customized Alfresco SmartSpaces.
The Benefits of Using Alfresco
- Source-control and version control for all corporate documents offering a full audit trail
- Collaborative environments for document development and delivery across the Intranet and Extranet
- Ease-of-use enabling rapid rollout and reduced training
- Single Integrated Enterprise Content Management Architecture
“PreVisor chose Alfresco because of its functionality and usability. The application is very intuitive and users find the system very easy to work with straight away”
Why PreVisor Chose Alfresco
PreVisor chose Alfresco because of its functionality and usability. The application is very intuitive and users find it very easy to work with the system straight away. PreVisor was looking for an open source solution that would not tie it to a proprietary vendor and that had a flexible pricing model. PreVisor was impressed by Alfresco’s Support team and felt that Alfresco was the product that would address their requirements of ease of use, proven functionality built on an open architecture.