Are You Ready for SharePoint 2010?
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is here. Enterprises around the world are implementing it and realizing the benefits company-wide. Among the benefits are improved connectivity and collaboration, an improved web 2.0 experience, increased work force efficiency and productivity, quicker access to relevant information, and better decision support impacting customers, personnel and financial results.
To make these benefits possible, Microsoft has improved SharePoint capabilities in six key areas:
- Sites –a single infrastructure for your websites allows you to share documents with your customers, partners and employees in a controlled, secure way.
- Communities –collaboration tools and a single platform to manage them make it easy for people to work together without creating multiple versions of the same documents.
- Content –managing documents and content is enhanced with features like document types, retention polices, and automatic content sorting.
- Search – finding information and contacts is simplified and more efficient through a unique combination of relevance, refinement, and social cues.
- Insights – accurate decision-making information in databases, reports, business applications is more accessible.
- Composites –responding more quickly to business needs is enabled through tools allowing users to create ad hoc queries and reports.
TRANSLATE THESE IMPROVED CAPABILITIES FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Successful companies understand that implementing or migrating to SharePoint 2010 is complex work. It's not a matter of just loading software and beginning to use it. It requires planning, design, installation, testing and training, and each of these tasks is impacted by the others. A solid implementation also requires a partner who can apply their understanding of how to deliver the best SharePoint experience in the context of each user.
Portal Solutions’ SharePoint Advantage, a cost effective assessment of your organization’s present state and future needs, is the ideal way to get started. It will help you understand what it will take for you to cost-effectively implement SharePoint 2010 and put your knowledge assets to maximum use. We will evaluate your organization using several criteria to determine if now is the right time to begin a new implementation of SharePoint 2010 or migrate from your existing SharePoint implementation. The SharePoint Advantage will also give you a “roadmap” for moving forward.
The SharePoint Advantage program includes three phases:
Discovery— we review your organization from five different perspectives looking at Access to Information, Business Process Information, Collaboration—the “ABCs”—to uncover a comprehensive picture of your current state and your ideal state:
- Current environment
- SharePoint 2010 use
- Objectives and Goals
- Infrastructure and Cloud Strategy
- Features and Functionality Alignment
- Governance: Adoption and Support
- Organizational Readiness – Users and IT
Analysis—we review what we’ve learned about you and evaluate this information in the context of how best to approach your specific implementation. We also highlight associated risks, and align your needs with SharePoint 2010 best practices.
Advantage Brief—we include a strategic briefing to your decision makers and key stakeholders that outlines our analysis of your overall readiness.
- Assessment of your readiness and recommendations on how to get ready, if needed
- Recommendations on how to implement and manage SharePoint 2010 including functions and features priorities
- Actionable implementation plan with high-level tasks and time frames
The Advantage Brief will benefit your company throughout the implementation
process, and they are yours to keep. SharePoint is not “One Size
Fits All”. Our expert consultants will bring their in-depth experience to the project along with an objective viewpoint. This is not only a technology approach; our consultants will guide their recommendations of what would work best for you to optimize your knowledge assets. This is based on your overall organizational readiness to adopt the technology.
We will conduct the discovery phase of the project at your office including the kickoff meeting and interviews with key personnel from IT and the user community. We will perform the analysis and develop the recommendations and roadmap at our office and we will present the strategy briefing to you at your office.
Our SharePoint Advantage program usually spans only one to two calendar weeks depending on the availability of your associates for the kickoff meeting, interviews and final presentation. Advantage represents a no-risk opportunity for you to begin your SharePoint 2010 journey with the right information and planning. Let's get started now! Call today, 240-383-1775, or simply complete and submit the form below.
Don’t forget to ask us how your Microsoft Software Assurance vouchers can help offset some of the cost of our SharePoint Advantage program.