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Utilizing Sharepoint For Collaboration and Beyond
With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has provided a multifaceted platform that can address a number of typical business needs more cost-effectively than many traditional content management solutions. As end-user adoption increases, businesses have the opportunity to leverage SharePoint for more than just collaboration. Our consultants are experts in helping organizations get more out of their investment in SharePoint.
We leverage our partnerships to extend SharePoint to meet the specialized needs of the life sciences industry:
- Axceler ControlPoint: Administration and control
- AvePoint: Migration
- ARX CoSign: Digital signatures
- Nextdocs: Document management for regulated environments
- Nintex Workflow: Business process automation
SharePoint’s most well-known capabilities lie within the area of collaboration, but many existing implementations suffer from issues with site sprawl and poor user adoption. Our solutions encourage cooperation through controlled taxonomies, document libraries, automated forms, process workflows, security controls, and customized branding.
SharePoint offers a cost-effective way to organize, store, and manage content through a web browser. Unlike many other enterprise content management systems, it allows end-users to update content and functionality on a site without the involvement of IT. By enabling more frequent updates, it ensures that end-users always have a reason to return to your site.
The contract lifecycle is rife with laborious, paper-based processes for contracts and agreements. Our consultants use workflows and SharePoint’s document management capabilities to automate the contract lifecycle, thus reducing the cost and time associated with reviewing and approving contracts. Capturing historical and current data in a single platform also improves visibility into the contracting process, strengthens compliance with corporate policy, and enables reporting and contract analytics.
A SharePoint-based portal is a simple, cost-effective solution that allows users to store and locate promotional materials or other assets. We implement a robust information architecture and faceted search capabilities that make it easy for any user to find what they are looking for. Dynamic, role-based security permissions help ensure that only those with the appropriate access can download sensitive materials, making it safe to upload any content onto the website.
There are a variety of tools to address the site sprawl and compliance challenges common to many SharePoint implementations. Our experts establish standards with a comprehensive information architecture and enforce those standards through stringent workflows and digital signatures that manage the content lifecycle and control approval processes. Audit and security settings can be used to limit and monitor content use while a governance structure ensures that the compliant processes we implement remain that way.
With content spread across various sites, finding one specific asset or piece of information presents a huge challenge as well as significant costs for maintenance and configuration. We implement cross-site search capabilities, categorized results, and faceted search options that allow the end-user to quickly and easily find any resource.
SharePoint offers powerful solutions to automate and integrate complex business processes that are currently done manually and plagued by errors, version conflicts, and duplication. Multiple paper forms can be transformed into a single electronic version within SharePoint. We then set up workflows to guide the electronic form through the validation, review, and approval processes, which increases efficiency and improves the user’s ability to search and track progress of requests.
SharePoint 2010 offers significant improvements over SharePoint 2007, including additional functionality and improvements in the user interface, social capabilities, business intelligence, record and document management, and integration with other systems. Our experts can help migrate content from multiple sources to the SharePoint 2010 platform while reducing duplication and the compliance and legal risks from unstructured and untagged content.
Any SharePoint installation must reside on a solid foundation with infrastructure set up according to best practices in virtualization, server architecture, installation, and configuration. Our experts set up farms equipped with strategies for backup/restore and failover to a disaster recovery environment. They also establish metrics and best practices for monitoring SharePoint and can assess and remediate existing installations where the platform is not performing as expected.
We also provide a shared service offering that allows our clients to get all the benefits of a centralized service without the initial costs and time investment of establishing one internally. We build, manage, customize, and support your SharePoint platform so you can focus on service instead of maintenance, monitoring, and availability. We host SharePoint in our state-of-the-art data center facilities with 7x24x365 monitoring and support and available remote site failover and disaster recovery.
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