We offer Consulting, Implementation, Project Management and Customer Support services based on our proven project approach for implementing our solutions.

Information Gathering

• Analyze the business and existing content/systems to identify capabilities and gaps
• Quantify storage, volume, capacity and geography requirements
• Understand the basics of interviewing and what elements of design need to be
  gathered at what stage

Business Case

• Quantify the technical, administrative and productivity benefits from
  implementing SP
• Identify the business case areas for justifying a SP environment
• Identify the level of effort and cost elements to accomplish specific
  implementation scenarios

Strategy

• Build a content management strategy for SP content
• Understand and communicate the scope and impact of the strategy on business
  areas
• Construct a reference architecture to identify a list of projects and opportunities

Transition

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Documenting Requirements

• Develop and define the technology requirements for your SP solution
• Leverage existing standards to simplify the production of your technology
  requirements
• Identify the categories of functional areas to document when gathering
  requirements

Records Management

• Review the state of an organization’s ability to comply functionally and technically
  with records management imperatives
• Communicate the technical, legal, business and RM components that influence
  enterprise compliance
• Recognize the technical solutions available in Sharepoint to meet these challenges

Governance

• Establish a governance structure and role definition for a SP program
• Recognize the appropriate responsibility for different usage, development,
  support, infrastructure issues
• Develop high level governance plan and program document

Customization

• Identify tools and options for development within SharePoint
• Plan and design primary components for the core capabilities of SharePoint
• Be able to evaluate the buy versus build options
• Identify the risks and issues with configuration versus custom development
• Determine realistic resource requirements (human and machine) for development
  and support

Integration

• Identify legacy application integration requirements, including functions, key
  indexes, etc.
• Enumerate existing platform and protocol standards that impact Sharepoint
  integration
• Identify strengths and weaknesses with integration to other content management
  platforms

Migration

• Identify and quantify what types of content can and cannot/should not be
  migrated to SharePoint
• Map data and data type from one system to another
• Validate migration for quality assurance
• Quantify and plan level of effort required for migration

Sustain

Change Management

• Identify the technical, organizational and cultural elements of a change
  management program
• Coordinate support, infrastructure, migration and training for effective roll‐out
• Develop a communication plan before, during and after implementation

Test, Train, Sustain

• Ensure the implementation meets user expectations
• Develop a disaster recovery plan
• Identify capacity changes and requirements for performance monitoring
• Use various tactics to ensure continued quality improvements on system and data