Rio Tinto Success Story

Rio Tinto Mines Rich Vein with OpenText Web Solutions

OpenText Web Solutions help create a consistent brand across a global Web site

“We used OpenText to engineer a high-quality, worldwide Web presence that requires minimal resources but has the flexibility to combine a consistent corporate image with local content generation. All within a secure, low-cost, and easily managed environment.”

— Bryan Smith, Principal Adviser, Digital Media, Rio Tinto

Challenge

• Had to communicate a consistent brand and send coherent messages to stakeholders, including investors, customers, suppliers, employees, and the media
• Required clarity and governance over their worldwide Web presence
• Needed the ability to populate Web pages with presentation and corporate image

Solution

• Open Text Web Solutions for SAP Solutions

Value

• Transformed Web presence into a consistent, professional, and highly-effective global communications medium that meets both corporate and local needs
• Met Rio Tinto's corporate objectives at a low cost to develop and a very low cost to maintain
• Allowed for change in their business and the adoption of new generations of Web communications as they evolve further
• Created ability to upload content to the page templates with no requirement to worry about page design or presentation

About the Organization

Rio Tinto has grown enormously since smart investors purchased a local mine in southern Spain in 1873 and turned it into a profitable business. Today, Rio Tinto is one of the world’s largest mining and exploration companies, mining and processing metals and minerals that include aluminium, copper, iron ore, diamonds, coal, uranium, gold, and industrial minerals. In the natural pursuit of mineral deposits, Rio Tinto has operations in more than 50 countries. In 2008, the company employed around 65,000 people, and revenue for 2007 was more than $30 billion.

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