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Company Net Partners with Metalogix

Posted December 18, 2009
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Company Net is delighted to announce its partnership with Metalogix

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To start the partnership off on the right footing, Company Net has already completed its first implementation of Metalogix’s Sharepoint Site Migration Manager - enabling one of its public sector clients to successfully migrate content from Sharepoint 2003 to Sharepoint 2007.

With Sharepoint 2010 soon to be released, Metalogix’s Sharepoint Site Migration Manager service offering is perfectly placed to assist customers in the migration of its Sharepoint and Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 content to newer Sharepoint platforms.

Don’t just take our word for it.  Check out Sharepoint Reviews.

What is SharePoint? A definition for the users…

Posted September 2, 2009
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In a recent strategy session with one of our partners, 30 seconds into our presentation on SharePoint, the question came, “What IS SharePoint”?

It is the sort of question that usually gets answered with words like intranet, extranet, internet, portal, document management, search,  content management and development platform. Not very definitive or easy to understand for most people.

So we set about coming up with a clearer answer, aimed firmly at the end users.

SharePoint is a communication and collaboration platform. It fully integrates with your Microsoft Office applications and uses web technology to allow your Company’s employees, suppliers and customers to significantly improve how they find and share knowledge, information and data. It is where you work together every day.

Once you have this definition in place it is much easier to associate the various elements of the SharePoint toolkit with the real world of end users as follows :

Intranet – A shared web environment for internal employees

Extrantet – A shared web environment for authorised external users such as suppliers and authorised customers

Internet - Web access to your company for anonymous customers

Portal – An internal website that allows everyone in the company to publish information and communicate with each other

Document Management- Keeping documents, images, videos, in fact any sort of data, well organised and ordered so that everyon has the correct version to work on.

Enterprise search – A vastly improved way of being able to find the information you need to do your job more easily.

Development Platform- SharePoint comes with a very substantial toolkit built in, and is readily customisable, but it does not end there, it is also capable of being  built upon by experts to provide highly tailored , business specific solutions.

Here is a nice video doing the rounds that shows SharePoint in action with some, but not all, of these features:

 

Hope that gives some clarity to what we mean when we talk about SharePoint.

Top SharePoint Site Admission for Project Scotland

Posted August 8, 2009
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We were very pleased to have our site for Project Scotland accepted into the Top Internet Sites website today. See what you think and place your vote.

 

With creative design supplied by The Union and Dynamics CRM functionality surfacing through SharePoint and InfoPath by Company Net the end result has been very effective in driving this magnificent Scottish Charity’s goal of providing volunteering opportunities to 16-25 year olds in Scotland.

Accessibility

We will shortly be addressing the issue of accessibility in SharePoint websites and sharing our experience of overcoming the challenges facing developers when needing to produce xHTML compliant websites using SharePoint. The recently launched Hisoft Rich Text Editor, provides an advanced toolkit to allow the delivery of xHTML compliance with new found ease, including for example compliant Flash Movies. We are currently testing an AA compliant version of the Project Scotland website with excellent results and performance improvements which we will re-launch shortly. What’s important here is that we have been able to retro design the exiting site in a very short period of time. Along with great creative design capability, the accessibility issue is essential to overcome and we have taken the decision to showcase this in our own new website which has had design input from one of our Creative Partners Digital Face and Shaw  and is shortly due for release.

 

We believe there is a huge opportunity for Creative Design Agencies to work with partners to devise and design top value websites for clients. Build upon your client’s existing investment in SharePoint without compromising any creativity and providing the client with a perfect combination of SharePoint’s impressive functionality for ECM, Internal Portals, Document Management, Search and Collaboration with public facing sites that are visually stunning, compliant and functional, with the essential ability to be administered with familiar experience internally.

 

The ball is rolling……time to get on board

See Some Top Internet Facing SharePoint Sites

Posted August 2, 2009
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If you are starting to think about using MOSS for your Internet facing Website but are worried the design may be too “boxy” and stuffy with SharePoint the its really worth a vist to look around this site where you will find some great examples of Internet Facing SharePoint.

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At Company Net, we have also had some great Microsoft feedback from Tara Hellier for our Project Scotland solution here, SharePoint Server 2007 – Customising the Look and Feel of Sites. Its great to be recognised in this way, thanks Tara, you know what you are talking about :) .

And with SharePoint 2010 heading towards us fast, there is no better time to be asking your partners to show you the solution. Here’s some more, a sneak preview of SharePoint 2010 

My other SharePoint site is a Ferrari

Posted August 1, 2009
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You bet, we are right now in the final steps of re-launching our own website on SharePoint 2007. Its been a very quick process for the lads and hot on the heals of the new Ferrari website we couldn’t be in better company. We already have a great example of one our own clients, Project Scotland, who blazed the trail with SharePoint last year and put immense design and marketing effort into this Award Winning site which really blows away the misconception that these sites are restrictive for designers.

We have had some great design input ourselves from our good buddies at Digital Face and also some excellent content copyrighting form our Flare (our new Joint Venture Creative Digital Design House – more about this exciting news later) partners Shaw Design.

We practice what we preach here and using dedicated partners to infuse our work with expert skills and creativity to add to our own extensive capability is what we are about.

Our approach is to work in partnership with our customers to envisage, design and deploy, high impact, business value solutions, whilst ensuring knowledge & skills transfer to secure maximum self sufficiency for lifetime enhancements and support

SharePoint at WPC 2009

SharePoint at WPC 2009

 

Hang on there, does sharepoint really work for websites, well yes. Here’s a shot from one of the many presentations at WPC 2009

It is a fact that allot of customers already using sharepoint for their internal needs such as Portals, Enterprise Search, Content Management and Document Management etc., do not know that the toolkit and development platform they are already invested in can provide their website also. By adding an extra licence from Microsoft, you unlock yet more potential. Working with a trusted advisor to guide you through to a solution by architecting and designing your SharePoint website, will further leverage your existing in-house skills which you have already developed. That’s ensuring  productivity and real return on your  employees skills and experience already.

 So tap into that SharePoint investment you have made already and come and investigate the exciting new opprtunities to signioficnatly enhance and update your web presence with SharePoint 2007 and of course SharePoint 2010.

We have had the sneak preview of SharePoint 2010 at WPC and it raises the bar even higher with an even better user interface and lots more functionality and integration tools, so watch this space. We will be going to Las Vagas in October, just before the official launch and will bring you back all the information then.