Customer Case Study
Ancora Education
Google Sites Intranet
“With Steegle’s solutions, our remote access capabilities have grown without compromising security.” – Kevin Peoples
Seamless Intranet Remote Access with Compliance
Anchora is a renowned provider of upskilling, reskilling, and vocational education services, catering to companies such as Amazon. They offer skills-based training programs. With a workforce of around 800 across 26 locations, Anchora is an industry leader.
Challenges
As a well-established organization serving thousands of end users, Ancora Education was already familiar with the advantages of having an employee digital workspace platform. They had previously built an intranet using classic Google sites, which consisted of hundreds of pages. However, with the transition to the new Google sites, the IT and Communications teams aimed to revamp the platform and improve its functionality in a visually appealing and user-friendly way. They also sought to incorporate features such as staff searches, convenient document uploading, and efficient methods of disseminating news and updates.
Outcome
Steegle created a Google Sites Intranet that fulfilled all of their specifications without sacrificing ergonomics or functionality. They were able to provide all the necessary features as required in the specification without compromising on ergonomics or functionality and features.
Key Facts - Client Success Stories
Location: Ancora Education Operating across 28 locations, serving companies such as Amazon with skills-based training programs.
Industry: Education and Training Services.
Size: 1000+ employees, serving thousands of end-users with vocational education services.Challenges: Ancora Education aimed to revamp their existing intranet platform to improve its visual appeal, functionality, and user-friendliness.
Solution Provider: Steegle.One – Delivered a Google Sites Intranet solution
Outcome: Steegle.One solution for easy remote access for a highly distributed organization. Over a year since implementation, the intranet continues to evolve with new features, reflecting ongoing development and support.
Conclusion: Ancora Education’s collaboration with Steegle for their intranet needs highlights the importance of a seamless, secure digital workspace that integrates with Google Workspace.
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“We are fully Google-based, so having an intranet employee platform fully integrated with Google was important. While user-friendly, Google Sites lacks functionality. The Steegle team, experts in the field, were able to fill this gap by providing tools and consultancy to make Google Sites into a perfect and engaging platform. Being a highly distributed organization, the Steegle Solution helped us with easy remote access while still offering security and compliance. It’s been over a year since we installed our intranet with Steegle, and it’s been great to see the products are still being developed with many new features.”
Kevin Peoples
AVP- Information Technology,
Ancora Education
Classic Google Sites — hundreds of pages but lacking staff search, doc upload, news
1,000+ staff across 28 locations needing remote access — existing platform struggling
Transition to new Google Sites required full revamp with improved functionality
Needed improved visual design while keeping ergonomics intact
Before Steegle.One
Full-featured Google Sites intranet: staff search, news, document management
Easy remote access for 28 locations — security and compliance maintained
Kevin Peoples: 'filled Google Sites gaps — still being developed with new features'
Over a year on — platform continues to evolve with Steegle's ongoing development
After Steegle.One
Frequently Asked Questions
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Ancora Education provides upskilling, reskilling, and vocational training to companies including Amazon, with around 1,000 employees across 28 locations. They'd built their own platform on classic Google Sites. But with hundreds of pages and a growing distributed team, the limitations became clear: no staff search capability, cumbersome document uploading, and no efficient news dissemination.
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Everything the team needed without sacrificing usability. AVP of Information Technology Kevin Peoples described Google Sites as lacking functionality despite being user-friendly — and Steegle as the experts who filled that gap by providing tools and consultancy to turn Google Sites into a perfect and engaging platform.
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Remote access was a specific requirement, and Kevin Peoples highlighted it explicitly — the Steegle solution helped with easy remote access while still offering security and compliance. For a training provider whose staff are rarely all in one place, the intranet needs to work as well for someone at a remote training site as it does in a head office.
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Kevin Peoples specifically noted this — over a year after implementation, the products are still being developed with many new features. That ongoing development matters for a large organisation whose needs don't stand still. Steegle isn't a one-and-done build; the platform keeps improving.
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Because they're fully Google-based. Adding a non-Google intranet would have created a separate authentication layer, a data sovereignty question, and a user experience disconnect. Kevin Peoples was direct — having an intranet fully integrated with Google was important precisely because the rest of their operation runs on Google.
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Yes. If a vocational training provider needs a custom learner tracking system, a training resource library, a compliance documentation workflow, or an automated scheduling tool for trainers — those can all be built inside Google Workspace using AppSheet or Apps Script.
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Training providers generate extensive curriculum content, compliance materials, programme documentation, and staff resources. AI tools like Gemini can help staff find the right training materials or colleague quickly — but only when that content is well-organised and current.
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