Sharepoint for Small to Medium-Sized Businesses
Streamline Your Business Process
Accelerate internal and external shared business processes, share business information within and outside of your organization; make business process initiation, participation, tracking, and reporting easy and flexible by providing a simple, consistent user experience through familiar client applications; optimize the way people, content, and processes interact within and across organizations.
What Is SharePoint
SharePoint from Microsoft is the number one enterprise information portal product in the world. SharePoint 2007/2010 can be configured to run intranet, extranet and Internet sites, increasing productivity by allowing people/teams to connect and collaborate. Our Certified SharePoint Professionals can work with your organization on all areas of SharePoint including InfoPath and web part development.
VNET IT can provide your staff with the benefits of effortless access to shared company business processes and information. Add a collaborative approach to content management across all of your business units and improve your organization’s effectiveness, efficiencies and net profits.
Utilizing SharePoint and VNET IT you can:
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Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities
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Help you meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content
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Provide you the ability to effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value
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Simplify your organization’s access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems
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Connect your staff with information and expertise
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Accelerate your business processes across organizational boundaries
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Give your staff access to shared business data without divulging sensitive information
Why Utilize SharePoint
Enterprise Search, Portals, Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, Custom Workflows, Business Intelligence and Business Process and Forms
Make better-informed decisions through centralized access to information and improved abilities to locate relevant content; implement comprehensive control over the storage, security, distribution, reuse, and management of documents and other electronic content such as Web pages, PDF files, and e-mail messages; submit work from collaborative sites to portals by using tools that simplify content reuse and publishing.
VNET IT can provide your staff with the benefits of effortless access to shared company business processes and information. Add a collaborative approach to content management across all of your business units and improve your organization’s effectiveness, efficiencies and net profits.
Examples of why our customers have implemented SharePoint:
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As your company grows, so does the amount of information and files. SharePoint allows you to store and share your files in a central site eliminating the lost productivity that surveys estimate employees spend (20-30%) searching for information or files.
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Multiple locations (office, home, countries) can connect and collaborate eliminating the drag, paste and version control of email.
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Business Intelligence can be disbursed and used by all using SharePoint Enterprise with Perfomance Point/Insights allowing the power of BI to be put into the hands of many.
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With SharePoint you can create company Intranet sites as needed. Document review and libraries, survey and meeting sites or department specific as required.
SharePoint Services
VNET IT provides a full range of SharePoint Services spanning the entire lifecycle of a SharePoint implementation. VNET IT’ certified engineers provide the following:
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Infrastructure Design and Implementation – VNET IT will guide you through the process of hardware and capacity planning as well as performance tuning. We will provide recommendations to guide your team through the process of determining the appropriate architecture to create an efficient environment including security, availability and responsiveness.
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Upgrades and Migrations – VNET IT will help upgrade or migrate your SharePoint 2003/2007 environment to SharePoint 2010. We will provide you with a best-practice planning and strategy approach to smoothly upgrade/migrate your current environment to the latest version of SharePoint.
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Installation, Setup, and Configuration – VNET IT will make sure that SharePoint is setup and configured with all the features necessary to meet the needs of your business.
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Taxonomy and Governance – The organization of your SharePoint is a crucial element in its success. This is especially true with SharePoint since it allows users to manage their own content. VNET IT will meet with your team, gather requirements and design a taxonomy and governance plan that ensures your site is manageable and maintainable.
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Branding – VNET IT can configure SharePoint to comply with your corporate style standards as well as having a compelling look and feel. This includes color schemes, custom page layouts and site definitions.
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Workflow – The robust features of SharePoint’s document libraries and collaboration tools naturally lend themselves to Workflow. Windows Workflow Foundation allows you to implement complete document lifecycle processes: author, review, approve, publish and audit. Use Workflow to ensure adherence to policy directives related SOX, corporate governance or document retention. VNET IT engineers will work with your team to build customized workflows that support your business processes.
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Forms – Supplementing SharePoint’s workflow features, VNET IT can create custom forms using InfoPath Form Services. These forms can be submitted from a web page, distributed via email or distributed to be completed offline. Forms support offline calculations and validations.
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Custom Development – If your need cannot be handled with SharePoint’s suite of built-in functionality, VNET IT can create custom components to extend SharePoint capabilities to meet any business need.
SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS)
Looking to deploy SharePoint or upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Do you have Software Assurance from Microsoft? If so, then VNET IT, a Microsoft Gold Partner, is one of the few select partners officially authorized to accept your Software Assurance Training Vouchers for SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SPDS) Program.
SDPS is a software assurance benefit that offers customers a 1, 3, 5, 10, or 15 day deployment planning session. SDPS allows your company to use our team of certified engineers (paid by Microsoft) to help your organization plan an effective deployment or upgrade of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. It includes a broad range of planning tools and services that help optimize the effectiveness of the SharePoint Server core capabilities, helps lower the cost of deployment, and improves the productivity of your organization.
Not sure if your organization qualifies for SDPS? Please contact us and we will research your licensing status for you.