Expanding Your Team With Sharepoint Consultants

by Andy on August 6, 2010

So you’ve finally joined the rest of the serious business world and decided its time that you too implemented sharepoint huh? Well, if you did, you might have also reached the next logical conclusion, which is that you need to do it right. If you want to implement SharePoint in a way that saves money, effort and energy while maximizing the benefits of sharepoint, you definetely need some help from consultants. If you want to find the quickest solution, click here and read this now.

Why is getting sharepoint consultants the right decision for you? Well, let me count the ways…

1) They will know how to solve any problem that comes up, long before it even comes up. Not only have they solved every possible problem, they’ve solved it a dozen times. It means they know the exactly most optimized solution that there could possibly be. Thereby saving you time, money and headaches.

2) If they’re good, they’ll also know how to help all your different teams get used to sharepoint. You see, a really good consultant isn’t just a technical person. A good consultant also knows how to make your current end-users used to using sharepoint, how to get them to love and use the system to its best abilities.

But how do you actally pick any good consultants?

Glad you asked! Because you see, unless you pick a good, high quality consultant, its the same as if you have never actually chosen one. Its really important to choose a highly qualified and experienced consultant if you really want to get the best bang for your buck. To do so, I recommend the following.

1) Don’t be afraid of grilling them on their past experience. Ask for references, inquire about previous problems they have solved and what companies they worked for. Ask to schedule a group phone meeting with a previous client and them. If they’re a good consultant, they’re bound to find at least a few previous clients to invest the time and speak on the phone with you.

2) Look at their attitude and personality in relation to your team’s personalities. If the consultant’s personality clashes with say the IT manager or some of the teams, its a no-go. It doesn’t matter that a consultant is amazing, if they can’t communicate with the teams without ripping each other apart.

But really there should be no reason you are confused by this. If you haven’t asked your question to me yet, click here to ask it.

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Sharing With Sharepoint

by Andy on August 5, 2010

Sharing with sharepoint is really easy. In fact, as the name tells you, that’s what the core point of the software is in the first place! Its designed around the idea of facilitating and making sharing and collaboration a lot more easy and effortless. If you need help developing a custom solution with sharepoint, click right here to learn more.

The way sharepoint achieves that is through integrating itself into other microsoft and windows applications, basically becoming a framework around your current work enviroment. What it does for example is add menus, buttons and toolbars inside the ms-office suite. This way, if you want to share a document with someone else, (let’s say you want a document approved) you simply press the appropriate button inside of ms word.

You press the users button on the toolbar, choose the user you want to share this document with, and then if you want, add a task for them, regarding this document. You can for example set the workflow of “approve or reject document”. What happens next is that sharepoint emails the user, and you are immediatelly notified when they open the document (commence the task). When they approve or reject the document, you are also immediatelly emailed the approval or rejection, as well as any comments they might have.

If you view the document in word now, after the approval (or rejection), you will actually see their notes and comments right there in the document, and this makes sharepoint almost the ideal platform for collaboration. Now, just because I used the example of word and approval/rejection, don’t assume that’s the extent of its collaboration abilities. In fact, there are literally millions of possible combinations, especially if you design your custom workflows using the sharepoint designer. My advice would be to simply hire a sharepoint consultant who can customize and fit the sharepoint implementation to your exact needs.

Still a little confused? No need to worry. Click here to get your specific question answered right away. There’s no need to worry about sharepoint.

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