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VTA Advances Contractor Collaboration with XtraShare for SharePoint
 
 
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) provides countrywide transportation planning along with bus, paratransit and light rail services throughout Santa Clara County, the largest county in the San Francisco Bay Area. As such, the organization regularly collaborates with multiple outside contracting firms.
 
The Challenge
 
VTA employs Microsoft® SharePoint® to manage its communications and data share among internal employees and outside contracting firms. While this solution is powerful and robust, it does not offer an easy way to ensure security for outside contracting firms. SharePoint is also cumbersome and time-consuming for those charged with adding and managing new contractor log-in accounts. As a result, VTA had to find a way to improve convenience and functionality without bogging down its existing IT department.
 
The Solution
 
VTA researched a number of software packages as a means to enhance capabilities, ultimately choosing XtraShare for SharePoint by Riolinx, a software development firm based in the Silicon Valley. “After exhaustive analysis of all technology options, XtraShare was the clear winner due to its centralized and delegated administration, forms authentication, custom user properties and Excel user import functionality,” explained Russell Liskey, business analyst supervisor for VTA’s IT department. Mr. Liskey also touted XtraShare’s ease-of-use for both internal staff and outside contracting firms.
  
The Result
 
VTA was immediately impressed with XtraShare’s installation ease and speed, with absolutely no issues arising during its initial testing. The solution’s centralized extranet site administration freed IT staff to work on other more pressing deployment and support issues. VTA also appreciated XtraShare’s email template functionality, which has reduced repetitive administrative tasks, eliminated their associated personnel cost and notably enhanced the user experience.
 
Outside contracting firms are now able to administrate and monitor their own accounts on their time, with users finding administration forms and login screens both easy-to-use and intuitive. Because XtraShare provides custom user properties, VTA is now able to gather essential information about users automatically during the registration process or during successive updates.
 
Extremely pleased with the results, VTA will be extending the use of XtraShare for SharePoint to its internal Human Resource site to ensure a second layer of security for sensitive employee data.

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