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PUTTING SHAREPOINT INTO ACTION
Interculturality, territorial distribution, and high interdisciplinarity changed the way companies
approach the collaboration between knowledge workers. These days, companies need faster
processes and their decision makers need clear and correct information at the right time. Microsoft
understood this needs long time ago and created their best collaboration solution SharePoint.
We discussed about some of SharePoints benefits for companies in our previous article and today I
would like to present you a SharePoint implementation program that we conducted for one of our
clients, a major Oil & Gas producer in Eastern-Europe.
Mixing technical and business knowledge - As any SharePoint integration program needs
highly professional teams, we formed a mix team with our clients specialists. By mix team I
refer to a team of highly skilled technical professionals SharePoint specialists, IT
administrators, programmers - and of business-oriented specialists, able to understand
specific and unique business processes. The collaboration between these kinds of specialists
is essential in order to support one of the main challenges of any SharePoint integration
program - the adoption.
Analyzing business needs - This stage had the main role to identify users needs and to
define the correct way of managing the new platform, based on the newest information and
content management technologies
Solution design - In the design phase we proposed an extended architecture for the entire
company, which is comprised of a main management platform and two integrated
platforms, located in Austria and Romania.
SharePoint integration involved applications implementations on servers and integrating
them with the existing services infrastructure: Active Directory for authentication, SQL
Server for databases, Exchange Server for e-mail, UAG for publishing the infrastructure
outside the network, security systems to protect information and platforms infrastructure.
Knowledge transfer was an important stage in our implementation program during which
we concentrated on explaining and sharing important information about platform
maintenance and development with key-users and administrators.
Adoption - One of the keys to the successful implementation of SharePoint is to drive user
adoption, which means gathering useful company information. As SharePoints usability is
easy and effective, all users found it easy to add important information.
Migration - The last phase involved the migration of various sources of documents and
processes to the centralized platform of document management and collaboration.
SharePoint now provides decision makers with easy access to important and relevant information. In
the mean time employees are always ready to offer information and reports adapted to specific
business needs.
Have you already chosen Microsoft SharePoint for your company? How was the implementation
process performed?
Valy Greavu
SharePoint Consultant, IT Green Light
ABOUT IT GREEN LIGHT
IT Green Light is an IT consultancy company, focusing mainly on special IT projects and technologies.
Headquartered in Romania, the company develops IT projects worldwide through its offices in
Munchen and Dubai. For over 10 years, IT Green Light designs and implements collaboration
solutions, business intelligence, corporate intelligence and knowledge management solutions.
Contact details:
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