“When we took on the EMI work, we pulled in a library of 10,000 existing digital parts. WebNative allowed us to take those digital parts, mount them in a volume and make all that information accessible just through a simple Web search,” said Chip Norton, Director of Digital Technology for Ivy Hill.

Within days of rolling out the WebNative program and teaching Ivy Hill’s employees how to search for digital assets, the company began realizing a return on investment in saved time.

“I’m promoting WebNative as the central way that visual information is shared between the plants so that people can see the products that they are trying to order, and see the products that they’ll be responsible for reproducing without committing resources to retrieve something that’s not usable,” Norton said.

“It’s very simple to train people to use WebNative. That’s one of the interesting things about the Xinet solution for us is that the administrative overhead associated with it is miniscule comparatively speaking,” Norton said. “We find WebNative to be extremely easy to administer, and that has a direct impact on our ability to deploy it in multiple locations with people who aren’t necessarily technically savvy.”

Ivy Hill is developing Xinet WebNative Portal so that the company can share data by searching for assets across all its WebNative volumes in California, Kentucky and New York.

“We see a huge opportunity with the development of the WebNative Portal to facilitate our ability to share assets within the company in a centralized search of all WebNative volumes that we have available,” Norton said.

Best of all, Portal keeps Ivy Hill’s security-conscious IT department happy.

“Another aspect of Portal that I find particularly exciting is that our company’s IT department has a very strong reign on security: what can be passed out through the network and who has access. Portal will eliminate those concerns by restricting access while facilitating the external sharing of digital assets,” Norton said.