S&T Russia creates a Portal for the largest Russian coal producer SUEK

About the Customer

Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) is the largest Russian coal producer and the only Russian company that is listed among top ten world's coal leaders. The company supplies nearly 31% of steam coal to the domestic market and around 25 % of Russian coal export.

Goal of the Project

In 2007 SUEK announced tender for portal roll-out project. S&T won this tender.

S&T had to complete following tasks:

  • Creation of a unified information environment for members of SUEK Board of Directors and management team
  • Organization of internal communications system for Board of Directors
  • Providing Board of Directors with remote participation in main procedures of the Board
  • Organization of cooperation with executors and other members of Board of Directors’ procedures (management, experts, etc.)
  • Plan of work for Board of Directors
  • Agenda creation on the base of general plan
  • Collecting and forming set of documents for Board’s sessions
  • Organization of communications with executors and performance controlling
  • Registration of incoming and outgoing documentation
  • Corporate scheduling and future events notifications
  • Joint work within committees, commissions and working groups
  • Necessity of IBM Lotus Domino usage in process of portal building
  • Web-access to portal using Internet browsers
  • Possibility to use various Internet browsers (IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera) with the same quality of portal usage and performance

Solution

Output

Technical and software abilities of portal provide service of more than 50 users’ requests to server simultaneously with response time not more than 5 seconds.

Multilanguage

Portal supports several language versions. Information appears in accordance with user’s language environment. Furthermore there are administrative abilities to add new information with note of language version.

Architecture

Portal server (IBM Portal Server Express) operates on applications server (IBM WebSphere Server) and provides different modules of the portal with necessary services. IBM DB2 is used as a repository. Here all server settings, users’ profiles, data and web content are stored. Portal Document Manager (PDM) is used for data management. It is a Java application, launched in portal server’s environment. All documents that are placed there get an index and become available for all users that are authorized to use the document.

For storing different content (news overview, exchange rates, etc.) IBM Lotus Web Content Management is used. It consists of several modules that are responsible for content management- creation of performance templates, authoring and presenting data to the final user according to his role.
Personalization module operates in portal server environment and provides with opportunity to create different rules according to which the content of the portal is changing (depending on the role of the user.)

Collaboration of users is organized by IBM Lotus Domino: Lotus Sametime components

Results

Portal helped to decrease amount of time needed for:

  • coordination and approval of the documents within the Board of Directors,
  • searching the documents
  • forming set of materials

Corporate portal also cut the costs for registration, exchange and providing the documents. Portal increased the comfort of work, level of holding all relevant information by the Board and provided with transparency of work and control over completion of tasks.
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