Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a modern server program that is a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and provide access to information that is essential to meet organizational goals and processes.

You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with their team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

Collaboration: Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.

Portals: Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user's profile.

Enterprise Search: Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content across the business including non-Microsoft applications.

Enterprise Content Management: Create, manage and share documents, records, and Web content.

Business Process and Forms: Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.

CalsoftES and Microsoft SharePoint

CalsoftES has developed a tried and tested methodology that rapidly helps you reap the business benefits you seek from your SharePoint solution. CalsoftES has developed a best practice approach based on years of experience gained on multiple projects spanning across industries.

The various phases of Microsoft SharePoint include-

Management Briefing Sessions

This session is targeted at enhancing the awareness of the top management about the benefits of SharePoint. Interactive sessions lead to answers on how the product can be implemented to derive maximum benefit to the organization.

Solution Architecting and implementation

Once the organizations have decided on Sharepoint as the tool, our consultants help in configuring and implementation of the solution. Armed with experience of implementing SharePoint solutions of various sizes, we help the IT organization to scope the infrastructure requirements as well as the architecture of the software components. Scalability is one of the key considerations in our recommendations thus ensuring reduced Total Cost of Ownership. We also recommend some 3rd party solutions that can be integrated and offer a comprehensive solution.

Solution Development

This phase starts typically with a requirements gathering session where all the key requirements are noted down and alternate solutions discussed. Some of the solutions are developed as a prototype for better understanding. Once the requirements are agreed upon, the solution is developed along with different interfaces. After exhaustive testing and user training, the solution is deployed. CalsoftES also offers support for such solutions.

Development & Customization of Web Parts

Apart from implementing the existing library of web parts, we also create new webparts and customize existing ones based on the need of your organization. Over a period of time we have developed our own collection of web parts that are reused for quick solution delivery.

Designing Sharepoint Interfaces

Some of drawbacks that arise out of limitations in the interfaces are overcome by developing new ones. While some of the customers simply want to keep the same general layout but change colour schemes, logos etc others would like to implement radically different interfaces. While first is relatively easy, the latter calls for developing new controls and overriding the many default style sheets. Our team of web designers and developers work together to ensure enhanced usage experience along with rich features.

Training

We offer two types of training. One is targeted at the IT department so that at the end of the implementation phase they are trained to develop web pages themselves. The other is targeted at the end users in using the developed application. The proper segregation of audience coupled with targeted course material ensures quick learning and faster adoption of the solution.