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About Harmonic

Harmonic is an independent fund administrator delivering a range of services and technology to hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity funds, private banks, pension funds, and family offices. With their software and technology, Harmonic supports the global alternative investments industry characterized by varied financial products, trading strategies and markets, shifting investor demographics, and an ever-evolving regulatory landscape. Their software is built to support the range of services Harmonic provides and be a front-to-back office platform for asset managers.

Business Requirement

Harmonic were looking for a central location to store user documentation for their software. They wanted the knowledge base to be privately accessible, with granular access controls to specify who should see what.

Harmonic previously hosted their documentation on a legacy version of Confluence but faced a number of challenges:

  • Primitive search functionality made it difficult for users to find the information they were looking for.
  • The user interface was not intuitive or easy to use.
  • A dated look and feel reduced engagement.
  • Restrictions on embedding certain media caused frustration.
  • Security and access controls were not flexible enough to satisfy certain business needs.

Solution

Harmonic evaluated the tools on the market and chose Document360 as their knowledge base. The following features addressed their pain points:

  • Document360’s user interface was more intuitive and easier to use.
  • The technical authors had the flexibility to prepare content with either Markdown or HTML editor.
  • The advanced search engine helped users quickly find the information they were looking for.
  • Granular access control helped Harmonic with information security and compliance.
  • Documentation templates helped authors quickly create new pages and publish according to the Harmonic style guide.
  • A variety of media could be embedded directly into the article.

Stuart Broad, Director, Harmonic Fund Services, says

With almost 30 writers on board, Document360’s workflow feature allows for a two-stage peer review process, so first-draft content does not have to be published temporarily before its corrected.

Business Impact

With their user documentation site working as a privately accessed portal, Harmonic has been getting positive feedback from their colleagues on the documentation site both from the reader’s and technical authors’ perspectives. The organization feels a lot more secure about the data on its site, because of the security & privacy controls in place.

Tania Terblanche, Business Analyst, at Harmonic Fund Services says

Document360’s beautiful user interface makes it so much easier to create content. The curated feature-set makes the process streamlined and simple.

Conclusion

Document360’s intuitive user interface and data security measures helped Harmonic establish an extensive internal user documentation site to help their team author and retrieve the information they needed quickly and efficiently.

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