Cadillac Fairview Uses Extranet User Manager for Retail Websites
The Client
Cadillac Fairview is one of North America's largest investors, owners and managers of commercial real estate. For more than 50 years, Cadillac Fairview has been leading the way in commercial real estate with innovative design, development and management. Cadillac Fairview focuses on high quality retail centres and office properties in Canada and the United States and also oversees equity investments in real estate companies and international investment funds. With a portfolio valued at approximately $15 billion, Cadillac Fairview and its affiliates own and manage 83 properties, including some of Canada's landmark developments such as the Toronto Eaton Centre. Cadillac Fairview is wholly-owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, which invests to secure the retirement income of 264,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.
The Envision IT Solution
Cadillac Fairview had over 50 production websites operating on different web content management (WCM) platforms, hosted by various 3rd party organizations. In order to simplify the external website environment, improve WCM functionality & security, leverage internal expertise & knowledge and substantially reduce operating costs, Cadillac Fairview engaged Envision IT to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 as the new standard WCM platform, create a standard website template and host the solution internally. Read more about this award-winning solution here.
Extranet User Manager
With the rollout of the retail website project for Cadillac Fairview, the goal was to engage the thousands of retailers across Canada that are tenants in CF retail properties. With new SharePoint web sites for each property (such as www.torontoeatoncentre.com and www.carrefourlaval.ca), there was an opportunity to allow the retailers to post their own content. Envision IT created a separate .Net application called the Retail Promo Tool.
This application leverage’s Envision IT’s Extranet User Manager. Not knowing the staff details at all the tenants, a fully bilingual self-registration process was provided. Retailers request accounts, manage and retrieve lost passwords and view account information. Once registered and approved, they post content for store promotions and job postings, all going through a CF approvals process managed by SharePoint. The Retail Promo Tool is integrated into the existing web sites, so that a single seamless experience is provided for all retailers.
