The Pattison Brothers Mississippi River Terminal Company is a locally owned and operated company in Fayette, Iowa that was founded in 1950 which handles and exports grain and fertilizers and creates marketing and value-added programs for other various agricultural crops and products.

The Pattison Brothers Mississippi River Terminal, like all businesses whose main core competencies do not primarily revolve around information technology, faces daunting challenges of keeping up to date with the rapid pace in which the latest technological products are introduced and which products will most effectively serve their business at the greatest ROI possible.

The Pattison Brothers wanted a new and fresh look for their Web site and for it to be created in one of the recent technologies so they could keep up with rapidly evolving products, in addition to having a tool that requires minimal or no coding experience to modify and update when it is needed.

Solution:

Not Rocket Science addressed this request by creating the Pattison Brothers Web site, viewable at http://www.pattisonbros.com/ entirely using Microsoft-based Windows SharePoint Services.

Windows SharePoint Services is useful to accomplish a variety of tasks. It can be used as a tool to create a professional and informal Web site to the public. It is also an effective tool for multiple employees in a team or company to manage and share information and Microsoft Office files, collaborate and discuss work-related issues, and coordinate and organize meetings and events from a single workspace in order to improve team productivity. In addition, Windows SharePoint Services can be used and modified within a company or group of people without having to be familiar with any Web development programming or coding, so virtually anybody can use the product, regardless of any coding experience.

Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/default.aspx for more information on Windows SharePoint Services.

Outcome:

For the Pattison Brothers Mississippi River Terminal, the Web site addresses their request of updating their Web site to a recent technological product and presenting the site in a professional manner. It also indirectly gives them the opportunity to improve their communication and document and file management processes from a single source, completely away from the general public. And since the Web site and Windows SharePoint Services is Internet-based, employees can maintain the Web site and manage files outside of the Pattison Brothers offices anywhere with an Internet connection.