Company Overview
Federal Signal Corporation is a leader in advancing security and well-being for communities and workplaces around the world. The company designs and manufactures a suite of products and integrated solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial and airport customers. Federal Signal's portfolio of trusted, high-priority products include Bronto aerial devices, Elgin and Ravo street sweepers, E-ONE fire apparatus, Federal Signal safety and security systems, Guzzler industrial vacuums, Jetstream waterblasters and Vactor sewer cleaners. In addition, the company operates consumable industrial tooling businesses. Federal Signal was founded in 1901 and is a leader in advancing security and well-being for communities and workplaces.
Client Challenge
Federal Signal realized an uptick in interest and demand for MOSS 2007 collaboration features to the point where the current pilot environment has transformed to production usage. The current MOSS 2007 environment is not configured as a high-availiability, high-performance server farm. While this is a desired state of the MOSS 2007 production environment, time and budgetary constraints require a production MOSS 2007 environment that is scaled back for an initial production release with the flexibility to grow the environment’s throughput, performance, and resiliency as demand increases.
Solution
Federal Signal is implementing a four server MOSS 2007 implementation. Two Web front-end servers, one index server, and one SQL 2005 server implemented on 64-bit Windows Server 2003 operating systems make up the solution. This implementation was necessitated by the presence of over 35 collaboration sites with over 350 Federal Signal employees requiring access to these sites. The information architecture and navigational model of the collaboration portal was reduced to two top-level sites and two site collections to facilitate ease of use and better operational and management efficiencies.
Microsoft Products
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
SharePoint Server 2007, Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Edition
Active Directory
.NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0
Benefits
By implementing the solution above, Federal Signal realizes or is positioned to realize the following benefits:
Centralized document creation and collaboration
Security trimmed access
Ability to leverage investments in current technologies like Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange, while reducing the need for collaboration to occur in a disconnected or inefficient manner using mail and file systems
Ability to onboard new site collection and sites to accommodate growth driven by the growing demand for MOSS 2007 services within Federal Signal
Updated navigation to ease users ability to access their site(s)
Integrated authentication with Active Directory to provide seemless login for users to the MOSS 2007 site.