Lend Lease

The Client

Lend Lease is an international property group with broad skills across the property value chain. Headquartered in Australia, Lend Lease operates three core businesses; project management and construction, property investment management and property development.

The Challenge

Lend Lease embarked on strategic initiative to increase collaboration and knowledge sharing via their global intranet. The implementation of this vision involved a retirement of the existing Lotus Notes intranet and the migration of the many hundreds of existing Lotus Notes web applications to a new MOSS 2007 environment complimented by innovative WEB 2.0 implementations. Due to the desire to have a phased approach to this migration, the new and old intranet sites would need to sit side by side whilst sharing common services such as search, authentication and identify management. Due to the highly integrated nature of the intranet environment, there was considerable complexity involved in this project from multiple aspects including application and infrastructure planning and implementation.

The Solution

Unique World were engaged to provide specialist architectural and development consultancy services to design and implement the vision for the new intranet. In addition consultancy services were provided around MOSS specific release and configuration management in order to enable the management and support of the new intranet. Using experienced Lotus Notes, MOSS and .NET architects, Key integration complexities were overcome and Unique World were able to integrate the different platforms together into a cohesive intranet solution.

The Benefit

Lend Lease are now enabled with cross-region and cross-business unit collaboration and knowledge sharing capabilities via the new intranet platform. In addition, the core intranet has been re-platformed and all the supporting management processes have been implemented to provide a fully managed strategic intranet which provides the benefits of WEB 2.0 and the MOSS technology stack, whilst being respectful of the legacy environment and providing an environment for the graceful retirement of the existing applications.