iD has joined the likes of Cindy Crawford, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry working with global online shopping giant and Australia’s leading home shopping network, Guthy-Renker. The company has partnered with iD to work on their inner-beauty, their internal communications – building a new intranet to support their expanding stakeholder network and foster a more engaging company culture.

It’s just as well because considering the competition, coming out a winner in terms of outer beauty might prove challenging. We are yet to be elevated to supermodel status, nor do we have our daily trip to work interrupted by a pack of overexcited, screaming teenage girls complaining of ADWEBieber Fever. The working week is young though so we will keep an eye out.

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Having moved passed an almost irresistible urge to break into metaphor/song regarding Kathmandu climbing their ‘information management’ mountain, we’re feeling quite chuffed with our self control.

The outdoor clothing and equipment retailer – and iD client since 2008 – has tested us at every turn. Puns, similes and other ill-considered jokes such as ‘weathering the storm’, ‘withstanding the elements’ and ‘paddling their own canoe’ have proved equally difficult to ignore, but we have arrived safely at the end of their case study without being too cheesy.

With 90 stores and counting throughout Australia and New Zealand, Kathmandu is one of the largest and most recognizable retail chains of its kind. Plans to expand operations meant they needed a way to better communicate with stores. With new outlets opening every few months, Kathmandu was on the lookout for new and improved ways to properly support their retail network, including streamlining the management of internal processes and reporting – integral elements of any successful retail business.

The retail giant selected Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) with the aim of enhancing operational efficiency and getting the business fit for battle on the global stage in the years to come. Read the full case study, and get all the gory details of exactly how they did it.

Australia Council for the Arts (ACA) has stepped up to the social media mark and integrated micro-blogging phenomenons Twitter and Yammer into their iD intranet.

NB: We were forced to exclude Yammer from the headline, not for want of trying but simply because the verb associated with using it evades us at this point.  ‘Yamming’? ‘Yammering’? Either way, we simply could not afford a faux pas here.

ACA is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, responsible for the allocation of over $158 million annually in funding to arts organizations and individual artists across the country.

In the only known parallel drawn between them and the National Rugby League (NRL) – other than the matching sized acronyms – they have both recently upgraded to iD 3 and are doing some very exciting things with the new functionality available in the latest version of iD (see Friday’s blog post).

A client since 2008, ACA recently enlisted the help of the iD team to do a complete redesign of their intranet to coincide with their upgrade. They wanted to re-vamp the site’s look and feel, with the goal of pulling more people to the intranet, engaging them in an interactive experience and ultimately keep them coming back.

Having previously struggled with employee uptake of the intranet, ACA saw the release of iD 3 as the perfect opportunity to turn things around create a brand-spanking new site their employees would actually want to visit.

Click on the image below to see the new design for yourself.

Big thank you to ACA for allowing us to use this screen shot.

A wise man, following an undoubtedly long period of profound self-reflection, once coined the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

Of that great man, we know only three things for sure:

1. He is most definitely single.
2. He has never seen an episode of ‘Pimp My Ride’ and/or ‘Extreme Makeover’ – whether or not he is better off as a result is a discussion for another time and place.
3. He has yet to experience iD 3.

While we trust your current version of iD is in perfect working order, the latest version of iD is our biggest release to date and we simply couldn’t live with ourselves if we didn’t share it.

iD 3 includes a host of exciting new functionality – some quick highlights being an all new CMS, powerful enterprise search engine and flexible role-based security model to name a few.

At the risk of sounding like a bad infomercial, there’s still more…

Other great reasons to upgrade include:

• Enhancements have been made across the board to our already comprehensive suite of 40 business applications;

• You’re paid up and proud, so why not take advantage of it and get your users working with the best version available;

• Upgrading now will mean future upgrades are even easier & support queries can be logged and processed more efficiently.

Click here to check out all the exciting new features and enhancements available.

Clients including VLM Airlines, Superpartners, Healthscope, Kathmandu and the NRL have already upgraded and are enjoying all the new functionality the latest version of iD has to offer. Upgrading is easy, much gentler than a face lift and much cheaper than turning a Datsun into a Porsche – simply fill out the upgrade form and we’ll be in touch to discuss the next steps.

They say first impressions last. If so, the National Rugby League has put themselves in good stead for the future, with an all new login screen for their iD extranet. A client since 2008, the NRL has worked with the iD team from the get-go to create a unique look and feel for their sponsorship portal – reflecting their corporate branding and reinforcing the ‘personality’ of the organization for users.

They recently upgraded to the latest version of iD and naturally wanted to re-launch it looking better than ever. That’s where we came in. The iD Design Team was enlisted as official style counsel, with a whole host of new styling options at their disposal in the latest version of iD.

The extranet re-design started with their login page. While for most, the login screen may seem like little more than a stepping stone to the central system, in the case of an extranet it is the mandatory first stop for all users. Put simply – branding begins here.

Stay tuned for more details and screen shots of the NRL’s new extranet.

A big thank you to the NRL for the screen shot below.

We are currently in the process of upgrading a large number of our clients to our latest version – iD 3. As clients get to work with all the new functionality, they have offered us some great feedback:

“We love the iD-CMS tool. It is absolutely brilliant and one of our guys is well on his way with a new intranet design, which I must say is looking really brilliant.” – Mercy Health & Aged Care

“We are very excited as to the potential of what we can do!” – Coleman & Greig

It’s great to see clients enjoying the new version. If you are interested in upgrading please click here.

We are very pleased to announce Healthscope – Australia’s leading private health care provider – has joined the iD family. Healthscope’s launch of iD 3 went off seamlessly yesterday to a glowing reception from all.

Join us for one of our famous FREE Lunch and Learn Showcases to see the latest version of Intranet DASHBOARD (iD).

Highlights include:
• A brand, spanking new web CMS
• Powerful Enterprise Search engine
• Flexible, role-based security model

…and so much more!

Come along, ask questions, snack on sandwiches and find out exactly what iD can do for your business.

These events are always a hit so register now to avoid disappointment! Learn how you can implement an intranet for less than the cost of your morning coffee.*

the details:
Melbourne: 12.30pm – Wednesday 16 June, River Room, The Arts Centre, St Kilda Rd
Sydney: 12.30pm – Wednesday 23 June, Quay West Suites, The Rocks

For more details, or to register, go to www.intranetdashboard.com/seminars
*Create an intranet for as little as $2 per user per month

To coincide with the launch of iD 3, we have released the iD Help site, a comprehensive online resource aimed at empowering you to get the most out of iD.

iD Help is freely and readily available – simply visit http://help.intranetdashboard.com

Explore this extensive resource at your own pace and discover all there is to know about:

• iD Tools and Applications
• System Administration
• iD Extras

Improve the knowledge base of all your intranet users and in turn, the overall standard of your intranet.

Make the iD Help site your first stop for all support queries. Click here to Explore Now.