Northridge Launches Retail Stores SharePoint Portal Platform for Fortune 500 Women?s Retailer

(PRWEB) November 30, 2011

Northridge is pleased to announce the launch of a new retail portal built on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform for a $ 9 billion Fortune 500 national leader in women?s fashion, beauty, and personal care.

The client approached Northridge seeking to develop an up-to-date, centralized collaboration portal built upon the SharePoint 2010 platform. With more than 3,000 retail centers around the globe, the client required a centralized enterprise communications solution capable of linking its entire network of retail centers to corporate headquarters. The primary vision for the SharePoint solution was a communications platform capable of distributing knowledge to all of the client retail centers in a timely and cost-effective manner. The end solution had to be functional across multiple browsers, accessible through a variety of operating systems, and readable on iPads.

The new SharePoint portal serves as a two-way communications platform providing targeted bi-directional content distribution while reducing the inefficiency and long delays associated with printed materials. In addition, the portal provides easy access to corporate documentation according to employee role, enabling collaboration, driving effective communication, and maximizing the ease of information distribution across the entire corporate network.

The new SharePoint portal solution connects the client?s corporate offices with its retail centers, allowing headquarters to push local, regional, and national information to managers, leadership teams, and associates. Each retail location receives real-time product and floorset information through the portal, vastly improving communication speed within the corporation and reducing the client?s carbon footprint.

Every brand within the client?s overall organization received a unique, custom portal design built upon a shared framework and feature set. Each individual brand portal allows specific content to live in a central repository accessible to all stores within that brand. Product information and thought leadership can be pushed from the corporate headquarters to different roles within each retail center, allowing targeted distribution of content based upon the employee?s brand and role within the company and preventing unauthorized access to privileged information.

To encourage collaboration and social community within the organization, Northridge utilized a mix of custom and out of the box SharePoint functionality, such as Messaging, Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Boards and ?Sticky Notes.? These messaging features replace a rudimentary communication system with new technologies and powerful collaboration tools. The Sticky Notes functionality is a custom application designed by Northridge within SharePoint that allows managers to post messages and status updates directly to the portal in a manner similar to the concept of sticky paper notes. Created to encourage a shift away from leaving paper notes in stores between shifts, Sticky Notes provides managers with a hub to centralize important information for their respective stores. In addition, Blogs within the portals provide brand leadership teams with the resources they need to get managers and associates excited and educated about products and corporate events, bridging the gap between the corporate home office and retail centers.

The new retail portal solution has been very well received across the client organization and in particular with store managers and associates. Northridge and the client continue to enhance the SharePoint solution using feedback from newly connected retail centers.

About Northridge

Northridge is a professional services firm focused on delivering high-value business consulting and technology services on the Microsoft platform. Northridge is comprised of two distinct divisions?Northridge Interactive and Northridge Systems. Northridge Interactive drives client growth, innovation and efficiency through effective online experiences. Northridge Systems enables enterprise excellence through collaboration, productivity and business insight solutions. Founded in 1999, Northridge is an established market-leader serving mid-market and enterprise clients throughout North America.

For more information regarding this press release, you may contact Taylor Rhyne via email at taylor.rhyne(at)northridge(dot)com.

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JAFRA Makes A Splash Across The Globe - New Contemporary Color Line Created To Suit Women's Diverse Beauty Needs

Westlake Village, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 13, 2011

JAFRA COSMETICS INTERNATIONAL has made the world a more beautiful place, one country at a time. For the first time in 10 years, JAFRA launched its new make-up artist-inspired color line in seven countries including Italy, Mexico, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, the Dominican Republic and the United States, with India to launch in April and Brazil in August. JAFRA Color features new sleek packaging, state-of-the-art formulations and global shades for a wide range of skin tones.

?JAFRA?s new color line is almost limitless. There is so much to choose from. I can?t think of a color that isn?t in the line or you couldn?t come up with if you mixed a couple colors. This kind of versatility is important to me as a professional and fabulous for women of all shades around the world.? Sergio Lopez-Rivera ? celebrity make-up artist

JAFRA Color is endorsed by celebrity Makeup Professionals, Sergio L?pez-Rivera and Aliesh Pierce. An acclaimed Hollywood Make-up Artist, L?pez-Rivera has created looks for top Hollywood actresses. Pierce is a world famous Makeup Stylist and Skin Specialist with an elite client list.

JAFRA Color?s new formulas offer perceivable benefits through nature?s best ingredients in combination with JAFRA?s competencies in skin care. For instance, infused with botanicals and Vitamins C and E, the Full Coverage Lipstick combines brilliant color, a velvety finish, and long-wear for 8 hours. The new Lash Maximizing Mascara dramatically volumizes, lengthens and curls with a patented cotton extract, Vitamins B5 and E.

?Feeling good on the outside is incredibly empowering,? said Janice Jackson, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, JAFRA Cosmetics International. We made a conscientious effort to create a line that offers women a vast array of gorgeous shades that enable them to satisfy their beauty needs with confidence.?

Other products include 11 new triple-milled eyeshadow trios, three new blush shades, and 11 new nail lacquer shades. Specifically for darker complexions, the line features a Cream Concealer in one new shade and SPF 10 Makeup in three new shades. The jewel of the deeper skin tone assortment is the Dark Imperfection Corrector, a moisturizing concealer that corrects discoloration and hyper-pigmentation. Pierce was a key consultant in developing the essential shades for darker skin tones.

JAFRA Color is supported by the Beauty Book which includes everything from makeup artistry tips from Sergio to a useful guide for deep skin tones from Pierce to fashion and style tips from a Hollywood fashion stylist. The book takes the guesswork out of choosing the best makeup colors for different skin tones, giving Consultants and Clients the opportunity to be ?Color Experts.?

HIRST PACIFIC LTD, a branding and design consultancy based in New York, worked with JAFRA on the custom-made package design which was inspired by modern shapes of technological gadgets and by curvilinear yet symmetrical designs found in nature. The result is a new color line that is fresh and timeless.

The packaging colors of silver and white, both found in science and nature, were chosen to create an association with JAFRA?s advanced technologies. Extensive research showed that these colors are a response to today?s world where less is more and purity is in. Also, global fashion trends indicate that silvers and whites are long lasting statements of elegance and luxury.

About the JAFRA Cosmetics International:

JAFRA is a leading direct-sales producer of beauty products, marketing in 17 countries throughout Latin America, North America, Europe and now Asia. Over 550,000 independent Consultants generate sales in excess of half a billion US dollars, marketing the JAFRA brand of skin and body care, fragrances, color cosmetics, spa, and men?s skin care. Headquartered in Westlake Village, California, JAFRA has been a member of the Vorwerk group since 2004. Vorwerk & Co. KG is a multibillion-dollar family enterprise with headquarters in Wuppertal, Germany. Established in 1883, Vorwerk is one of the world?s largest direct selling companies. To learn more, visit http://www.JAFRA.com.

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Funky Divaa can provide women with a whole new concept to their shopping experience; as it is common knowledge that fashion is an integral part of any women?s life. Funky Divaa's primary concept is to create a modern fashion and lifestyle website, to embrace the fast fashion and celebrity inspired concept.

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