Why SharePoint 2007?
SharePoint 2007 has rich capabilities that will provide your organization with one solution that can manage both your Extranet and Intranet. Associations are taking advantage of this technology to assist them with managing their Web site content, Intranet and online communities. SharePoint 2007 provides:
- Collaboration: The ability for you to collaborate as teams on projects internally, share information among members and enable committee work through the platform.
- Document Management: Creates the ability to manage documents in a structured way. The solution provides you the ability to manage and share documents through the use of versioning, metadata, profiles, workflows, search, and information management policies.
- Portal and Application Integration: Enables a personalized user interface that brings together information specific to the users defined areas of interest and sources such as Web sites or Web services.
- Content Management: allows you to manage your Web site content and portals in an effective manner for both your external-facing site and your Intranet.
In addition, SharePoint serves as a development platform for enterprise applications. Development teams can leverage the following technologies within their own applications:
- SharePoint Object Model: Using SharePoint lists, version control, search, and security to store and present application information
- Web Parts: Organizing applications and deploying "web based windows"
- InfoPath Forms and Windows Workflow Foundation: Automating business processes to improve document management or to provide simple interfaces for collecting date for ERP systems and other line of business applications
The SharePoint product is powerful. However, in order to fulfill your organization's unique business needs, it requires configuration and customization as well as training for the users, administrators, and developers. Fusion Productions can work with you to make SharePoint a winner within your company.
Our team of professionals is comprised of experts in implementing Microsoft's SharePoint Products and Technologies. With years of association experience, we bring a wide range of association management and technology expertise. Some of our services include:
- Usability Expertise
- SharePoint:
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- Architecture and Planning Services
- Creative Design
- Document Management Strategy
- Community Strategy Development
- Technical Expertise and
- Consulting
SharePoint’s rich feature-set makes it a natural for collaboration and content management. Our expertise will provide you with guidance to take advantage of all of SharePoint’s features.
Usability Expertise
Fusion's usability experts will provide you with an evaluation of your current site, make recommendations for best practices and help you evaluate your content. We will work with you to ensure that your constituents can easily find information and have a valuable experience when visiting your Web site.
SharePoint Taxonomy and Information Architecture Development and Consulting
Based on an overall strategy for the Web site and content requirements, we will work with you to analyze and design a new user interface. This will be accomplished through development of a new information architecture, wire frames and usability study with your volunteers.
For many organizations, one of the most difficult tasks on a SharePoint project is to design a taxonomy strategy that addresses portal/site organization and navigation as well as an overall information architecture that specifies how content will be categorized, classified and tagged.
The best way to develop a taxonomy strategy and design is to pair knowledge of an organization’s content with knowledge of the functionality and capabilities of the software that will be used to develop the sites. We can help you through this process by providing expertise we have gained from working on numerous design engagements as well as our deep knowledge of the taxonomy-enabling features of SharePoint.
Creative Design Services
With our design services, your organization will present a single consistent, unique brand identity with your members and the public.
We offer complete visual customization and branding services by talented visual designers who are experts in the not-so-intuitive science of applying outstanding visual designs to SharePoint. We can customize your SharePoint project with branded:
- Style sheets
- Templates
- Themes
- Site definitions
- Portal area definitions
Document Management Strategy
With our knowledge of best practices for document management, we will help you develop policies and set up document management in SharePoint. This includes:
- Content types
- Workflows
- Information management policies
Copywriting
Web site users only read about 25% of what is on the Web page. With this in mind, we can collaborate with you to create content that is easy to understand and read. This will assist with overall site usability.
Custom Development
- Custom application pages interfacing with SharePoint object model
- Web parts
- Features, solutions, and site definitions
- Workflows
- Event receivers
User Training
Short classes focusing on information retrieval, working with documents, and basic collaboration:
- Content Manager/Site Administrator Training
- System Administrator/Architect Training - education about managing SharePoint farms
- Developer Training - customized education
