SharePoint Consulting

Our team of professionals are recognized experts and experienced consultants on Microsoft's SharePoint Products and Technologies.  SharePoint and the Microsoft Office System are our 100% total focus.  Our people speak at national conferences on SharePoint, write articles for SharePoint specific publications, teach our leading-edge curriculum and work on real-world SharePoint design and deployment projects for our consulting clients. (Read the bios for some of our people here)

We conduct consulting engagements throughout the U.S. for organizations that are as small as a few hundred employees up to Fortune 1000 companies, large academic institutions, and government agencies.

Our areas of specialization include:

• SharePoint Extranet Consulting and Deployment
• SharePoint Site Provisioning Solutions
• SharePoint Branding Services
• Taxonomy and Information Architecture Development and Consulting

Some of the SharePoint projects that we have recently helped our clients with include:

• Large Manufacturer\Retailer - SharePoint Extranet implementation for a U.S.-wide business partner portal (download case study here)
• Large University  - Design and implementation of a customized SharePoint-based portal to support the 20,000 students of a large university
• Medium-sized Commercial Construction company - Design and implementation of SharePoint-based portal for this company with multiple offices and roughly 300 employees.  A main function of this portal was to facilitate knowledge-sharing in the company.
• High-profile Non-profit Foundation - Heavy customization of a portal to provide "community" for public school teachers across the State of Ohio
• Small Cancer Research Center - Design and implementation of an Extranet based on SharePoint to facilitate collaboration with pharmaceutical companies on experimental drug trials

Specific areas of expertise include:

SharePoint Extranet Consulting and Deployment

Our experience in designing and deploying extranets using MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 is second to none.  In fact, we currently manufacture the world's leading extranet-enabling add-on for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 - Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007.

SharePoint's rich feature-set make it a natural for collaborating with business partners and customers via the extranet.  Microsoft has added new features to SharePoint 2007 that make it an excellent choice as a platform for an extranet.  Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box solution is not complete and requires expert guidance to fully implement and utilize. 

We can help you with:

• Developing security strategies for the Extranet
• Architecting SharePoint Server farms for Extranet usage
• Configuring Forms-based authentication (FBA)
• Configuring alternate authentication providers (i.e. non-AD providers)
• Selecting and configuring tools to ease the burden of extranet administration
• Establishing governance best practices for the extranet sites
• Automating the process of new site request and provisioning

SharePoint Site Provisioning Solutions

Many organizations need to be able to govern the process of SharePoint site requests and provisioning - whether on their extranet or intranet.  Out-of-the-box, SharePoint 2007 does not provide tools for automating and managing requests for new collaboration sites.  The administrative burden of manually managing these activities can be overwhelming in many organizations.

We have extensive experience with designing and implementing automated solutions for site request and provisioning.  Our industry-leading Site Provisioning Assistant for SharePoint 2007 add-on provides an outstanding starting-point for our consultants to design and implement a customized site provisioning solution for your organization. 

SharePoint Branding Services

Does your SharePoint need an extreme makeover? SharePoint Solutions offers 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 help your SharePoint customization project with custom:

• style sheets
• templates
• themes
• site definitions
• portal area definitions

Download a PDF with examples of some of the branding projects we have helped our clients with.

SharePoint Taxonomy and Information Architecture Development and Consulting

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.  One of the primary reasons this is difficult for many organizations is that there is no "cookbook" approach to this task that really works.

Instead, the best way to develop a taxonomy strategy and design is to pair knowledge of an organizations content with knowledge of the functionality and capabilities of the software that will be used to develop the portal/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.

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