Otokar's New Intranet Portal: Portokar

With Portokar portal, Otokar not only provided users with easier and faster access to information but also made considerable gains through improvements in work processes, enhanced employee productivity, and lower costs.

A member of the Koç Group, Otokar is one of the leading firms in the Turkish automotives industry. Known for its own successful research and development activities, Otokar has been developing and delivering solutions that are specially tailored to meet its customers' needs and make use of its own technology, designs, and applications since 1963.

Otokar employs nearly 1,200 people in a 169,000 m² plant located in Sakarya. The buses and armored vehicles that it makes are sold to customers around the world. For 2007 Otokar projected a gross turnover worth USD 300 million of which 30% was to have been generated by export sales. Otokar's CIO Can Sevinç says that all of Otokar's business processes from R&D design systems to consumer finance and warranty processing are incorporated into the company's automation system.