Acme One developed an expense manager intranet portal (based on SharePoint Server (MOSS, a portal-based platform) for the customer. It consisted of a simple excel-like user interface for managers and administrators to approve travel expenses of different departments. Whenever an employee initiated a request for expense approval, the request remains in one of the four states (Draft, Pending Approval, Approved and Rejected).

The key features of the solution included:

• User Role Configurations (employees,, administrators, managers)
• Email notifications (to concerned parties) upon approval of requests
• Pre-defined templates for travel expense requests (reducing the time users took to get familiar with using the ‘Expense Manager’)
• InfoPath Forms rules updating
• Customizable display settings (based on user role)
• Ability to print as well as export expense reports in multiple formats (PDF, CSV.) from within the portal