DATA SHEET

SharePoint Deployment Service Offerings for Enterprise Portal and Collaboration

Working with enterprises to build collaborative workspaces, portal frameworks and social computing solutions that help increase efficiency and improve the bottom line

Align practical SharePoint portal and collaboration capabilities and functionalities with your business requirements

Collaborationthe ability to work jointly with othersis one of the key requirements of enterprise portal implementations. One report based on 1,400 chief information officers (CIOs), found collaboration ranked fourth in their top 10 technology priorities*. Microsoft Services SharePoint Deployment Service Offerings for Enterprise Portal and Collaboration are designed to ensure you get the best return on your investment. When you adopt Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, expert consultants can help you lay the groundwork for thoughtful ongoing growth and development as your organization progresses. From advancing employee collaboration and information sharing to enterprise search, content management, and more, Microsoft Services will work with you to ensure that the new technologies improve the processes that help you achieve your essential business goals. * 2006 Gartner survey

The Power of Collaboration

Businesses choose to implement enterprise portal solutions for a variety of reasons. Whether for internal file and information management, communication with off-site employees, clients, or resources, or connectivity with other organizations, an effective infrastructure can extend the value of your current information technology (IT) investments while enabling business process innovation. Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps promote business collaboration through:

Trusted Microsoft consultants guide you throughout the process so you can:
Improve overall workplace performance and efficiency Foster innovation and market responsiveness. Promote effective, appropriate access to shared workspaces Build a community that benefits from sharing ideas and information.

Collaborative workspaces where people share assets across teams, departments, and organizations. Portal connections that connect people with line-of-business data, experts, and business processes. Social computing tools so people can more easily harness the collective intelligence of your organization. Reduced cost and complexity through an integrated infrastructure that makes full use of existing IT investments. Microsoft Services is committed to tailoring the enterprise-ready, scalable, and easily managed Office SharePoint Server 2007 portal and collaboration solutions precisely to your business requirements. Backed by successful experiences from hundreds of successful engagements worldwide, our experienced consultants work closely with your business and IT teams to help transform the way people in your organization work together through workspaces, portals, and emerging social capabilities.

Your Requirements Set the Pace

The comprehensive Microsoft Services Enterprise Portal and Collaboration offering address the enterprise portal and collaboration capabilities and functionalities based on the maturity and requirements of your existing IT systems. Each of the offerings can be implemented in progressive steps or implemented separately and independently. Our expert Microsoft Services consultants will tap into their deep, professional experience and easy access to Microsoft product groups to help you envision, build, and maintain an enterprise portal and collaboration solution that reduces implementation risks while increasing the value and effectiveness of your collaborative systems.

Transform the way people in your organization work together.

An Integrated Partner Relationship

We build a strategic partnership with your organization to help you minimize risk and maximize your technology investment. Your existing technology is our starting point; as your organization grows and changes, our team will work with you to ensure your technology continues to meet your requirements. Our large network of Microsoft partners is a source of additional support and information, helping you extend your knowledge and experience.

An Established Path to Success

The Microsoft Services team follows a proven, phased process to meet your business needs throughout the entire Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment. Additional offerings within each stage of the lifecycle can be combined in progressive steps or implemented separately and/or independently based on your current and future business and technology requirements. Our team guides and advises you, applying the depth and breadth of their experience throughout the entire lifecycle. First, our consultants can help plan and design the enterprise portal and collaboration setup that best advances your business goals. These offerings can include: Business planning, decision accelerator and technology planning services. Next, during implementation activities, our team can assist in the integration of the SharePoint 2007 platform. This can include content migration of all necessary and relevant content from your previous platform. Last, the Microsoft Services team can analyze the operation to determine optimum support and ongoing hardiness to ensure you have a secure, scalable, and extensible infrastructure that works the way you need it to with operations, monitoring and optimization practices.

SharePoint Deployment Service Offerings for Enterprise Portal and Collaboration includes:
Experienced, professional guidance on where to start, based on your current IT and business environment. Technology planning and architecture design. Direction and assistance with implementing the solution throughout your enterprise. Guidance on supporting IT operations.

Microsoft Services Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment Portfolio

A key component of the Microsoft Services Office SharePoint Server 2007 portfolio, Enterprise Portal and Collaboration offerings span every phase of the deployment lifecycle.

Maximize Your Collaboration Potential

Microsoft Services can help you tailor your portal framework, collaborative workspaces and social computing tools to exactly what you need, today and in the future. Choose the Enterprise Portal and Collaboration Deployment offerings by Microsoft Services, the technology solution that brings a team with experience and depth of understanding to your enterprise. For more information

about consulting and support offerings from Microsoft, contact your Microsoft Services representative or visit www.microsoft.com/ services.

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