Microsoft SharePoint - Advanced 365

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Deploying a new infrastructure in parallel with an office move had the potential to be immensely stressful but working with an IT partner whom we could have 100% confidence in made the process so much easier.

IT Manager
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Advanced 365 has enabled Marie Curie to obtain the best value for money from its technology investment. As a charity it is critical that every '£' spent on IT offers more than a '£' back in benefit.

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In an ever changing business environment, we need to work with a managed services partner that can offer us a flexible service that is able to adapt to the way we work allowing us to deliver a first class service to our customers.

Head of Corporate Services
HS1
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Vice President
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers
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We first started working with Advanced 365 as a training provider training our team on JBoss technology. It was from this initial engagement that Advanced 365 quickly became a trusted advisor and key partner throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Head of Development
Siemens Financial Services Ltd
As the strategic systems team for Morgan Sindall, we wanted to provide our business with the best solution possible around our key business challenges: expand business collaboration, increase efficiency and improve workflow.

Group Head of Information Systems
Morgan Sindall Plc
Advanced 365's experience and reliability has proved important in allowing Moorfields to fulfil its main role as a national centre for ophthalmic care.

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Moorfields Eye Hospital
Our partnership with Advanced 365 creates real business value for Fixnetix and from day 1 Advanced 365 were able to demonstrate both their technical expertise in Sun technology and an in-depth understanding of how to solve our business requirements.

Chief Technology Officer
Fixnetix
The technical support we have received from Advanced 365 has been key in allowing us to develop our new e-commerce application with Advanced 365 acting as both a trusted partner and technical consultant throughout the process.

Head of E-Commerce
RS Components
Through working with Advanced 365, our ICT team can now focus on those areas of IT that add unique value to the organisation.

Virtual IT Director
AAT
ABS' system, coupled with Advanced 365's managed service, will provide us with a flexible solution that can adapt with the ever-changing needs of the NHS, both now and in the future.

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By working alongside Advanced 365, we've proven that we offer an extremely successful service to our clients - a service that simply wouldn't have got off the ground without the knowledge, expertise and support of Advanced 365.

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NLA
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Royal Albert Hall

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Ensuring SharePoint's Success in your organisation

Many organisations are deploying or upgrading SharePoint, but how many of these implementations are successful? Precisely what makes for a successful SharePoint initiative? Advanced 365 believe there are 7 key areas that your organisation can focus on to ensure platform success:

Upfront planning (For both the system & information architecture)

A clear understanding of the “big picture”, documented by a “SharePoint Roadmap” for your organisation (with six month, 12 month, and 18 month projections)

Executive sponsorship / Executive buy-in

Diligent enterprise SharePoint governance planning and enforcement

Development of a rock-solid, stable environment, with corresponding disaster recovery strategies to prevent user-confidence loss

Robust development of Metadata and Content-Type standards, initiated during the early stages of your initiative

End-user enthusiasm, achieved via the targeting of “quick wins” to “wow” your users

Advanced 365 are able to assist organisations using our Microsoft Certified SharePoint consultants and extensive experience with all of the key areas listed above by utilising one of our typical SharePoint engagement approaches:

Engagement approach

Who would benefit?

Business Case Development

We will assist you in defining direction on where technology can best impact your organisation and assist you in gaining buy-in from senior management and budget holders.

Fast-Start

We will work with you to implement a fast (5-10 day), low risk trial to resolve business issues, showcase the products capability and to prove value.

Development Review

We will review a SharePoint environment already deployed that may need remedial action, and ensure a solid technical base from which you can develop further.

Full-Cycle Solution

Will perform business analysis, technical design, development, test, production readiness and all post-implementation stages to build a complete solution. We can work hand-in-hand with your existing technical team or offer low-cost outsourced solutions as appropriate

Shape

In support of this success, first and foremost organisations must determine what you are trying to accomplish through your SharePoint environment. Ask yourself: Is my organisation’s SharePoint deployment intended to be:

an intranet solution?

an enterprise content management system?

a knowledge management solution?

a collaboration solution?

an internet-facing or extranet-facing solution?

a business-process automation platform (i.e. Workflow)?

an application development platform?

a mixture of the above?

Design

More often than not, organisations are responding to this question with the “Mixture of all of the above” answer. Based on your organisation’s goals, the overall design-planning for your SharePoint environment should include:

An understanding of your organisation’s user-base (both current and future)

A geographical understanding of where your end-users will be accessing the environment from

Content and sizing requirements (What is the total expected content size?)

The businesses expectations regarding the availability of SharePoint (i.e. What are the governing SLA’s with regard to the platform?)

An understanding of the other applications and data sources that will access and/or interface with SharePoint (i.e Will it utilise the BDC, are KPI’s to be included)

Plan

This planning must occur whether the environment is a single-server deployment or a large server farm. It is vitally important to have an accurate architectural picture of your SharePoint deployment. This will help you to:

Acquire the necessary hardware to implement the physical architecture

Have an adequate grasp of the most suitable physical and logical configuration options possible

Start designing and implementing a solid and highly available environment

Efficiently plan the deployment of the new SharePoint platform

Lastly, always plan the design and implementation of your SharePoint platform as a ‘service’ to your organisation. SharePoint typically becomes very popular, very quickly. Due to this fact, developing a reliable and highly scalable platform is critical.

If you would like to find out more information about Advanced 365’s SharePoint Services please contact us.