Reed Exhibitions is the world’s leading organiser of trade and consumer exhibitions with a portfolio of over 430 events in 32 countries. The company excels in creating high profile, highly targeted business and consumer exhibitions, where buyers and suppliers from around the world can come together to do business.

As Reed Exhibitions UK operations develop, the company needs to maximise productivity and improve communication. One of the key productivity tools for management to ensure consistent communication with all employees, to get instant feedback and to empower employees to increase their information sharing is an intranet portal.

Reed has selected SORCE, the specialist provider of intranet portals, as the provider of a comprehensive intranet solution. The SORCE intranet provides a secure repository of management and strategy information, on-line forums for information and idea sharing, essential employee information and social information such as employee events and classified advertisements.

According to David Rowe, IT Manager at Reed Exhibitions UK, “Our old intranet could not keep pace with our need to update and share information dynamically. With the SORCE intranet solution, we have dynamic content management and lots of ready-made applications and document management capabilities. This means that we can empower individuals within departments and our subsidiaries to manage the content and ensure that it is relevant and timely.”

The SORCE intranet solution recognises that the best way to keep an intranet a lively, informative and productive tool in any organisation is to empower users to manage the content. Users learn quickly how to use the SORCE content management capabilities to maintain their information. We also benefit from the creativity and innovation of our users who help to identify suitable applications that we then build into future versions of the solution.

“The SORCE intranet provides a highly flexible tool that gives Reed Exhibitions UK the ideal solution for keeping employees informed and encouraging them to mange their own information on-line,” commented John Nicklin, Sales Director of SORCE. “When you add in over 30 out-of-the-box applications that are part of the SORCE intranet solution, Reed Exhibitions UK can take full advantage of intranet technology to maximise the worldwide communication and productivity of their employees.”