Project Extranet Case Studies

SkyHawke Tech Ltd. SkyCaddie, the world number one golf GPS rangefinder

"We have found the Extranet to be invaluable. As a very busy growing company, we need every resource possible to do things faster and more cost effective. The Extranet has provided a simple cost effective solution." - Jackie Hitchcock, Managing Director SkyHawke Tech Ltd

SkyHawke Tech Ltd manufacture and sell the world’s most popular portable golf GPS rangefinder, the SkyCaddie. Strapped to your golf trolley or clipped to your belt having a SkyCaddie is like having your own professional caddie with you for every round of golf.

SkyHawke Tech Ltd use the Project Extranet is two distinct ways:

Media and advertising content

SkyHawke Tech Ltd works with a number of media organizations, graphic designers and publishers all of which are responsible for different campaigns and create a large number of image files and marketing materials. Mesacom Tech Ltd set up a Project Extranet for SkyHawke to help make this more manageable. The Project Extranet allows them ease the administrative burden by providing logins to suppliers and designers who can now take the responsibility for ensuring that their marketing content is kept up to date in their own projects within the SkyHawke Extranet.

Mapping

The accuracy of the SkyCaddie relies upon their vast database of golf course GPS information. SkyHawke Tech Ltd have professionals mapping golf courses all over the world. The mapping team at SkyHawkes UK head office head up the mapping operation for the whole of Europe. They use the Project Extranet as a common workspace for schedules, commonly used files and documents all of which need to be accesses by the mappers as they crawl over the golf courses of Europe. The Project Extranet is ideally suited to the distributed nature of the mapping team.

Find out more about SkyHawke Tech Ltd, including how the SkyCaddie can improve your golf, by visiting their website www.skycaddiegps.co.uk or return to the main Project Extranet section for more case study examples.