Overview | How can BHW help?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

SharePoint Features

1. Collaboration - The enabling technologies that allow teams to work together effectively, providing intuitive, flexible, and secure mechanisms for sharing information through the use of wikis and blogs, collaborating on and publishing documents, maintaining task lists, conducting surveys, developing and maintaining site templates customized for specific business uses, and implementing workflows.
2. Portal - The facilities that provide the capabilities to personalize the user experience of an enterprise Web site, to target content to various audiences based on sets of rules, to automatically facilitate intuitive navigation through the Web site while tailoring the navigation to the individual rights of the user, to deliver comprehensive site content management and structural facilities, and more.
3. Enterprise Search - The critical ability to quickly and easily locate relevant content distributed across a wide range of sites, document libraries, business application data repositories, and other sources, including files shares, various Web sites, Microsoft Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes Databases - and to find the appropriate people who can help answer questions or be involved in projects.
4. Content Management - The facilities for the creation, publication, and management of content, regardless of whether that content exists in discrete documents or is published as Web pages. Content management scenarios include document management, records management, and Web content management.
5. Business Forms and Integration - The ability to rapidly and effectively implement forms-based business processes, from design to publication to user access, by using standard Web browsers or a rich client application such as Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. Also includes the ability to connect with structured systems such as databases and line-of-business applications, and the ability to access that information in a number of ways.
6. Business Intelligence - The ability to deliver information critical to business objectives through a wide range of mechanisms, from server-based spreadsheets accessing business data in real time and performing sophisticated analyses to the presentation of key performance indicators (KPIs) through enterprise Web sites.

How can BHW help?

BHW's SharePoint team works with clients to transform Microsoft's Office SharePoint platform into a business tool that greatly enhances organizational communication and facilitates access to business critical information.  Some of these specific services are:

1. Migration from SharePoint 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) provides advanced functionality and features that allow organizations to achieve better communication and collaboration among its employees. Migrating from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007 requires a well-thought-out migration strategy.
2. SharePoint Portal / SharePoint Intranet Architecture and Design - Use SharePoint Portals and SharePoint Intranets to jump start collaboration and communication among customers, business users and partners by giving them secure role-based access to critical business information.
3. Custom Web Parts - Custom SharePoint Web Parts allow for the creation of elements that support the need for specific customized business interfaces.
4. Workflow - Improve team productivity and efficiency with customized SharePoint and InfoPath workflows that streamline approval processes.