Cargill restructures Web environment

With a diversified profile, whose roots are linked to the agribusiness sector, besides being one of the most important crop nutrients and feed ingredients industry in the country, Cargill decided to invest in a project designed to change all of its web environment with the purpose of offering to the internal and external public, distinctive portals to some operational sectors of the company, in addition to intranet.
InfoSERVER was in charge of this project, launching the portal www.cargillsoja.com.br, specifically to the Soy Complex of the company. “We’ve worked together with Microsoft and InfoSERVER to define the infrastructure. After this step, we included other two vendors: INPE to update information on the weather and climate, and CMA, responsible for the financial content”, states João Candido, IT Coordinator at Cargill.

News for the users

Today, on the Soy Complex website, it is possible to check important information for this market, such as dollar exchange rate, news on the sector, weather forecast, among others. “And the best of all relies on the fact that the entire content is updated every 15 minutes, thus ensuring reliability to the users”, says Candido.

Cargill’s entire website is supported by Microsoft’s CMS (Content Manager Server), which allows the company’s collaborators themselves to input information on the website. Insertions, modifications, or updates of information are made by previously defined employees in each department, called “Key users”, through templates elaborated with a simple and quick interface. This change on data updating process allowed Cargill’s IT department to eliminate the time spent on this kind of work, so as to be able to be dedicated to more specific actions. “Cargill also had a cost reduction with the change, once, as a service rendering area, IT used to charge all services to any other sector in the company”, assures Candido.

Intranet and portals of the remainder areas are under development and implementation. Cargill’s total investment for this restructuring was around US$ 150M, and the company estimates the payback in three years.