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Alzheimer's Society

For 25 years, the Alzheimer's Society has been the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia, their families and carers. The Society has over 25,000 members and operates through a partnership between over 250 branches and support groups and the national organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Business Challenge

Not surprisingly, the Alzheimer's Society's structure presents a range of communication and information sharing challenges. Existing communication systems too-often re-enforced a top-down information flow from London to the local branches. How could branches be encouraged to share local expertise more widely? How could 'one Society' be built from so many local initiatives?

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Our Solution

Built using Microsoft Content Management Server for Intranets, the Alzheimer's Society intranet, Arena, offered a range of easy-to-use information sharing and communication features such as distributed publishing, bulletin boards, staff and office directories, and a searchable policy archive.

Arena was built and launched in 6 weeks -- an accelerated schedule necessary to meet a key internal deadline. Content and Code was able to meet this deadline due to a proprietary store of pre-defined components that make up our MCMS Product. In this case bespoke development was minimized substantially reducing overall development costs.

What's more, Arena is completely outsourced. So instead of devoting valuable internal resources to system maintenance and development, the Society can focus its efforts on content publishing and ensuring that all staff and volunteers have the information they need to make the biggest impact possible on the problems of dementia in the UK.