Helbling provides swiss engineering and consulting services at the highest level
The internationally active Helbling group of companies, founded in 1963, positions itself as an interdisciplinary service network of engineering and consulting skills. The independent group is managed by 31 partners in executive functions and employs 554 people at its locations in Switzerland, Germany, the USA, and China. The focus of the group is on selected services for technological innovation and business consulting.Microsoft Teams Governance for all areas of the company
Microsoft 365 includes modern tools for internal and external collaboration. The tools can be used widely and are not regulated as standard. This means that functions are available, the use and meaning of which are not always intuitive for the user and can thus endanger data security. Therefore, a collaboration governance based on Helbling’s business and security rules was needed.
Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Governance automation
Helbling came across AskMeWhy’s Seamless in search of a solution for the uniform and automated implementation of Microsoft Teams Governance. One of Helbling’s main goals was to be able to use the Microsoft Collaboration Services’ Microsoft Teams by means of self-service and thus without much additional effort, and at the same time to automatically implement the demanding governance requirements with regard to responsibility, the four-eyes principle, naming conventions, and security. Seamless is a software-as-a-service and therefore requires no installation. Seamless automates collaboration governance and the provision of SharePoint and Microsoft Teams workspaces based on configurable templates.
Sophisticated application and approval mechanism
Employees of the various business units apply for Seamless workspaces for processing offers, projects, specialist topics, and organizational tasks with internal and external members via Seamless Microsoft Teams or SharePoint. When creating an application, depending on the user and the assigned cost center in the ERP system (Abacus), the activity for which a specific workspace can be requested is evaluated. The workspace is then linked to an existing user object from the ERP. Next, it is checked whether a workspace based on Microsoft Teams or SharePoint can be created for this object with internal members, external members, or both. After approval, a workspace is then automatically created using the seamless API based on templates with the corresponding naming convention, access rights, and sharing settings.
“Our governance and security requirements are enforced automatically, which means that customer projects can also be processed in Microsoft Teams.”
Christoph Rothlin, Helbling Technik AG
Management of Microsoft Team applications
“We evaluated various solutions to fine-tune the steering of Microsoft Team applications and the four-eyes principle, and at the same time enable self-service,” explains Christoph Rothlin and adds, “AskMeWhy supported us proactively in our selection process and so significantly contributed to our decision. We were surprised at how quickly Seamless was implemented and how flexibly the solution adapts to our needs.”
“Seamless integrates our ERP data and thus our business rules”. Christoph Rothlin is satisfied: “Seamless has convinced us with its simplicity and allows our employees to fully focus on the content work”.