Accelerate your deployment of SharePoint with Department in a Box© for the Intranet
In today’s corporate environments, organizational growth, the rapid pace of business and complexity contribute significantly to the increasing volume of business information—and to the difficulty of managing data and resources. In order to gain visibility and control across the enterprise, customers must integrate their business processes and information through the use of Intranet and Extranet portals. The desire to make access to important business data easy culminates in providing a more unified environment to collaborate, communicate, and make better business decisions. Many companies have found success in reaching their goals by leveraging Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 as a single, integrated platform to manage Internet, Intranet, and Extranet Portal applications across the enterprise and ThoughtBridge’s Department in a Box for Intranet.
ThoughtBridge’s Department in a Box© for Intranet solution is an integrated set of software components, tools, and architectural guidance that combine to provide a framework and best practice methodology for providing the rapid deployment of MOSS 2007. The Department in a Box© for Intranet solution also offers best practices for fostering user adoption through awareness, training and the often overlooked system governance. ThoughtBridge’s Department in a Box© for Intranet is built upon the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Office System platform, extending its capabilities to increase the productivity of your Information Workers. Our Solutions allow people to accomplish important activities faster, automate repetitive tasks, and integrate with existing business processes using software tools they have come to rely on.
Features of Department in a Box© for Intranet
Department in a Box© for Intranet provides an accelerated Intranet that consolidates, organizes and categorizes structured and unstructured information within an organization. This solution serves as a platform to streamline the way people do business by providing capabilities to support user designed data gathering tools, information intelligence, enterprise content management, and search. This solution is built as a secure, well-managed infrastructure offering, the following are the key core features of the Intranet solution.
- Easy-to-use, Unified Intranet for “one-stop” access to your corporation’s information
- Provides an easily understood and consistent user experience
- Standard navigation and branding in support of an organization’s corporate image
- Main landing page with subsites structured by division or department
- Structured content and content management
- Document management capabilities that include version control, access control, library repository/document storage
- Enterprise Search capabilities
- Enhanced collaboration with tasks, announcements, calendar and outlook integration
- Leverage Workflow capabilities within document libraries as well as custom forms and SharePoint lists
- Enable line-of-business processes
As part of the Department in a Box© for Intranet solution,ThoughtBridge offers best practices and methodologies around the PEOPLE and PROCESS aspects of this project. In order to properly drive user adoption and usability of the new Intranet, an appropriate training, governance and support plan must be put in place to facilitate a positive experience for the end users and keep them using the Intranet as their main source for collaboration and information sharing. The following overview outlines the additional components to the solution:
Benefits of Department in a Box© for Intranet
ThoughtBridge has deep experience deploying SharePoint infrastructures, architectures and applications in support of environments from 200 to 100,000 users. Our expertise, coupled with proven methodology for delivering projects, ensures success when deploying an Intranet to meet the requirements of your organization. As a result of our experience, clients can realize the following benefits from an integrated SharePoint architecture that supports Internet, Intranet and Extranet.
- Accelerated Framework for deploying SharePoint and company Intranet
- Improvement and Automation of Process
- Rich collaboration and document management capabilities
- Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management system
- Collaborate with colleagues and businesses in the ecosystem more effectively
- Platform to quick build more familiar applications for Information Workers to be more effective and efficient
- Flexible, secure, manageable and reliable at the core
- Consolidation of Technology
- Training and Readiness is included as part of the solution