We’re often being asked “why SharePoint”? It’s not always an easy question to answer as there are so many reasons why SharePoint is the best choice. The answer will depend on who it is that’s asking, what type of organisation is going to be using it, what they’re using it for and other similar considerations. It’s probably not enough to say that “once you’ve used it you’ll wonder how you managed without it”, although that’s certainly true in 99.9% of cases.
Whilst SharePoint is a Microsoft product and you’d expect them to come up with some good marketing strategies, we feel that some ideas are better than other. Here’s a link through to some benefits for IT professionals which we thought had some great content. After all, people in IT can be the hardest to convince sometimes!
Check it out: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/benefits/IT/Pages/default.aspx
Increasingly, workers want to use their own devices, such as slates, smartphones, and portable computers, for work. For IT to be able to embrace consumerisation, risks to the enterprise and its data must be minimised through assessing and understanding user needs and device types.
When consumerisation is properly planned and managed, it enables businesses to deliver productivity gains and competitive advantage. This paper describes strategies and best practices that help ensure that corporate assets remain secure and establish new roles for empowered employees and IT as partners.
Read more in this interesting white paper from Microsoft… Strategies for Embracing Consumerization
The SharePoint Online service enables teams to work together easily to share critical business information on SharePoint Online sites. Colleagues and customers can access the documents they need from virtually anywhere. With your documents and information managed in one place, everyone has access the latest version. Enhanced search features help you quickly locate information and people across the company while security features let you control who can read, edit and access individual documents. And they can do this through various types of sites:
My Sites: share and manage personal documents and information
- create your own personal My Site to share personal information and professional expertise
- access and manage important documents from your PC, phone or browser
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Microsoft Office 365 takes the industry’s most recognized set of productivity and collaboration tools and delivers them as a subscription service. With our cloud services, your organization can lower overall costs and deliver the right set of tools for the right users, all with appropriate layers of security and compliance. And, Office 365 includes a financially-backed service level agreement, allowing you to feel confident that you chose the best cloud solution.
Log in and team up
All of your employees—whether they’re power users or casual workers—can easily and securely access the same Office tools and information. They can be productive on PCs, phones, and browsers from virtually anywhere*. And don’t worry—their documents always show up in high fidelity.
Stay in control
Tightly integrating cloud-based and on-premises workloads enables you to maximize your current technology investments, deploy at your own pace, and get the benefits of the cloud in a way that works for your business.
Rest assured
Our globally-redundant architecture provides built-in scalability to ensure that the right level of technology is available for your users, adjusting to meet seasonal or cyclical demands.
99.9% uptime guarantee
You can count on Microsoft, an industry leader in productivity, for reliability. Microsoft provides a financially-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Use what you’ve got
Office 365 tightly integrates cloud-based and on-premises workloads to enable you to maximize your current technology investments, deploy at your own pace, and get the benefits of the cloud in a way that works for your business.
Office 365 is a suite of Internet-based services that are designed to help meet your needs for robust security, 24/7 reliability, and user productivity. These are the components of the suite.
Microsoft Exchange Online for Enterprises - Microsoft® Exchange Online is a hosted messaging solution that delivers the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server as a cloud-based service. It gives users rich and familiar access to email, calendar, contacts, and tasks across PCs, the web, and mobile devices.
Microsoft SharePoint Online for Enterprises – Microsoft SharePoint Online is a Microsoft Office 365 service for businesses of all sizes. Instead of installing and deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premise, any business can now simply subscribe to SharePoint Online to provide their employees with an enterprise grade solution for creating sites to share documents and information with colleagues and customers.
Microsoft Lync Online for Enterprises–
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If you want the best information you ask an expert. igroup are SharePoint experts – we’re Microsoft gold partners with plenty of experience and expertise. We love SharePoint so much it’s all we do.
If you’re not sure just what SharePoint is, let us give you a quick hint.
What is SharePoint?
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for people to work together. Using SharePoint 2010, you can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.
Why use SharePoint?
The capabilities of SharePoint 2010 work together to help your company quickly respond to changing business needs. Using SharePoint 2010, your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs and find the right business information to make better decisions. For IT, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort and focus on higher business priorities.
What can SharePoint do for you?
Improve productivity, efficiency, agility. Catch a glimpse of the exciting work customers are rolling out across their enterprise. See what SharePoint 2010 can do for you. Watch Microsoft’s video MSCOMRTM Image 2
If you’re looking for a SharePoint partner to help you with your deployment, give us a call now.
What if you could take your existing it infrastructure and make it more flexible, more productive, and more powerful — all for less money than you’re currently spending?
Introducing . . . . . . cloud power
Microsoft provides the most comprehensive approach to cloud computing on earth—delivering software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions across multiple environments using familiar tools and technology—so you can drive your business into the future. igroup, working with Microsoft, can provide the perfect hosting service for your SharePoint deployment.
Increase business productivity while paying only for the computing power you need. Take advantage of flexible, public cloud computing with Windows Azure® platform application development and hosting solutions provided by igroup. Reduce capital expenses without limiting your IT infrastructure.
igroup is your cloud power authority
We know that all this talk about cloud computing can sometimes be a bit confusing, but igroup can help you make sense of it all. When your business teams with us, you get:
- security knowing you’re working with a Microsoft Gold partner that specialises in SharePoint, and nothing but SharePoint
- 30 day contracts
- your hosting from Microsoft, in Azure
igroup can give your business the guidance and support you need to find your own cloud power. As SharePoint specialists, we’re the best people to ask.
The power of the cloud
Cloud power is a new approach to IT. What does it mean for your business?
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We’ve all been working hard, and now have 5 Silver competencies to go with the Gold Digital Marketing competency that we’ve had for a while.
At igroup we understand that a satisfied customer will tell at least a few others about you, whereas a dissatisfied customer will tell anyone who will listen. That’s why we do all can to satisfy every customer, first time, every time.
We’ve thought long and hard about the post-sales service that we offer to our customers, aiming to make it the best around. It isn’t just a question of “the customer is always right”, because on the odd occasion when the customer isn’t right (yes, it does happen!), it’s vital that the best advice is given in order to avoid potential problems. What could be worse that helping a customer to do something badly – “I told you so” is not good customer service.
The more we thought about it, the more we came to the conclusion that above anything else, we wanted to give our customers the type of service that we’d expect to receive ourselves. Not exactly rocket science, just good old common-sense.
So what can you expect if you decide to chose igroup to provide SharePoint support services for you?
