Effective Collaboration, Document Management, and Information Sharing Tools
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.
The Henson Group, Inc. (THG) assists clients in leveraging MOSS 2007 to build comprehensive portal solutions for content aggregation and document management, creating end-to-end solutions that meet the complete information-sharing needs of business organizations. For example, users can quickly create and contribute to team or project-focused Web sites from a Web browser or Microsoft Office application.
MOSS 2007 also aggregates Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) sites into one portal for the entire enterprise. WSS offers a solution for workgroup information sharing that requires minimal IT support, while MOSS 2007 allows enterprises to effectively aggregate corporate knowledge across file servers, databases, public folders, and Internet sites.
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS CREDENTIALS
Specializing in both small- and large-scale MOSS 2007 deployments
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE), many former Microsoft employees
Dedicated Information Worker Practice specializing in designing solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that enable enterprises to develop intelligent portals that seamlessly connect users, teams, and knowledge (providing both infrastructure and development services)
Ranked among the top US partners for SharePoint
Received Microsoft "Competency" Award in 2007 for SharePoint-related services and projects in the New York Metro District (Microsoft's largest district)
Possesses Microsoft’s Official Information Worker Solutions Competency
THG consultants are regular participants in SharePoint-related conferences and other Microsoft community-based forums
Actively engaged in Microsoft Early Adopter programs in SharePoint technologies, including Technology Adoption Programs (TAP)
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS FIELD EXPERIENCE*
This is a partial list. Additional Case Studies available upon request.
A&P (retail supermarket chain)
Covanta Energy (utility)
Elite Models (modeling agency)
Goldman Sachs (financial services)
Greenhill & Co. (financial service)
Information Builders (software developer)
Kohn Pedersen Fox (architecture)
Phillips-Van Heusen (clothing manufacturer)
* Read more about SharePoint deployments performed by THG at www.HensonGroup.com/CaseStudies.
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS SERVICES DESCRIPTIONS
Systems Deployment Planning: THG details the information needed for a deployment, including capacity planning calculations to determine hardware and software requirements, anti-virus concerns, network configurations, scalability considerations, and supportability.
Knowledge Management Planning: THG will review existing document management and workflow processes, as well as existing content, user roles, indexing, search, and portal requirements. Upon completion of this analysis, THG will provide a Taxonomy and Workflow Design to structure and organize documents for access, searching, and workflow processes.
Site Design and Implementation: THG customizes the design to match your brand colors and logos, while also setting site topics, alerts, listings, surveys, audiences, document management, version controls, and more.
Custom Search Strategies: THG extends MOSS 2007 to integrate with existing portals, file shares, and Email systems, so that your existing systems information will be aggregated and accessible through a single gateway.
Application Integration and Workflow: THG develops custom web parts to gather, present, and modify information from internal/external partner systems. THG can migrate paper forms into InfoPath forms that can be tracked, monitored, and approved electronically. And, THG can also leverage is able to implement workflow solutions using BizTalk Human Workflow Services and K2.net.
Management and Control: THG introduces the elements necessary to monitor and support all systems that the client's portal depends upon for proper operation. From this info, administrators can properly plan and support portal solution systems and sub-components.
MOSS 2007/SPS 2003/WSS Assessment Services: THG offers a unique Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and Windows SharePoint Services Assessment to provide you with practical recommendations for improving and protecting your collaboration portal. Unlike anything on the market today, THG identifies issues and proposes realistic remedies.
The Top 10 Benefits of MOSS 2007
1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data. This tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates product adoption.
2. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. You can complete these activities without any coding. Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with a simple, consistent experience. Modifying and extending these out-of-the-box workflow processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage).
3. Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively. And you can reduce litigation risk for your organization. Tight integration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with familiar desktop applications means that policy settings are rendered onto client applications in the Microsoft Office system, making it simpler for employees to be aware of and comply with regulatory requirements.
4. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.
5. Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
Give your users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections. Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.
6. Connect people with information and expertise.
Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data along with information about documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need.
7. Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.
8. Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents (such as financial models).
9. Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.
10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.