The Challenge

Yahoo! Sales Team began working with Method to design and unify the production of their documents, create document templates, and present a unified face to clients. At the end of this process, Yahoo! Sales Team had a library of great-looking slides and presentation material, but a system that still couldn't keep up with the company's new goals of effective content distribution among their internal sales team.

The Solution

Working from the designs and information architecture provided by Method, SolutionSet built a custom application framework, building such functionality as creating a unified admin system for uploading and posting documents (effectively eliminating the need for gatekeepers), full-text search, bookmarks, AJAX-powered dialog boxes for quick saves, RSS feeds, and pulling important data into a centralized homepage (effectively eliminating the need to log in at multiple resources).

The Result

Yahoo! was so impressed with the effectiveness of this initial launch that they were inspired to work with SolutionSet to create further extensions, including automatically deleting old documents, email updates about document status, group document download into a ZIP file, a CMS, events calendar, and reporting tools such as records of most recent searches, most popular downloads, and other statistics.

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