The platform is hosted on a combination of physical HP and virtual VMware servers within Anglian Water's own network and the interface between SharePoint and LiveLink was created using the Open Text Application Governance and Archiving (AGA) product.

The documents live in LiveLink but are surfaced into SharePoint using custom AGA web parts and metadata. Infosys has also extended the AGA interface to integrate LiveLink document control workflows within SharePoint.

Butler said: "It was also important for us, what with using multiple vendors, that it was designed as a single solution. To begin with we were looking at it from a document management side and an intranet side, but we then learnt that the two work so closely together that it is important to look at it as a single design solution."

"On our old system we were very much governed by hyperlinks, which often got broken if a new document was placed in or there was a change to a document. With the interface connecting LiveLink and Sharepoint this isn't the case anymore and is enabling our employees to get access to the most up to date information."

Anglian Water's IT infrastructure , after the end of a 15-year outsourcing relationship with CSC in November 2010.