Stories about SharePoint in Retail: Major Tire Company Adopts Collaboration System with Faster Search
With over 5,500 employees at its corporate head office and 475 retail outlets nationwide, Canadian Tire was looking to refresh its Intranet site known as inTIREnet. The pre-existing site, hosted on a Lotus platform, was visually cluttered and staff complained of poor search functions. Canadian Tire teamed up with Microsoft® technology partner Envision IT to move its entire Intranet to a SharePoint® collaboration and document-management platform. Now, employees using the SharePoint-supported Intranet can easily search documents and share information across the network and receive daily corporate news updates. The solution helps Canadian Tire extend communication between employees in the corporate office, also known as the Home Office, while offering greater security measures and access to internal documents.