Innovative and modular intranet for Nelissen Steenfabrieken

Last year, ACA Group developed its own SaaS-based intranet, built on Liferay’s digital experience platform. The goal is to enable customers to quickly put together their own intranet and host it in the cloud at a fixed monthly cost (per employee) by using ready-made building blocks, such as a news module, who-is-who section, self-service and more.

The intranet uses the concept of fragments. These are modular building blocks that are built in HTML, CSS and Javascript and can be used by content editors and webmasters across the various pages. By creating a library of such fragments, we give the customer maximum flexibility to set up their intranet by themselves.

Each fragment has different settings, so the same building block can still play a completely unique role within a page. For example, unique behavior can be assigned to a fragment and it can be visually adjusted as desired. The modular blocks are included in a central library and can be arranged on the pages as desired.

In a nutshell, the main functionalities of the intranet are:

We adopted a collaborative approach with Nelissen Steenfabrieken, leveraging ACA Group’s Intranet, a SaaS-based modular intranet solution built on Liferay’s digital experience platform. Our approach included:

By focusing on user experience and scalability, we ensured that the intranet would cater to the needs of all employee profiles and grow with Nelissen's future needs.

ACA Group built an intranet for Nelissen Steenfabrieken. During the discovery phase with Nelissen, we looked at the necessary page structure and the structure that the new intranet had to comply with.

The result is an innovative and flexible intranet for all of Nelissen’s employees. During the development phase, we paid extra attention to user-friendliness and mobile accessibility. We took into account the scaling of the text to smaller screens so that the intranet can also be used via smartphone. This means that employees who are not behind a computer can also easily visit the intranet.

The new intranet contains news, events, key figures (in graph form), a searchable who-is-who, general information pages, self-service forms and a powerful search function.