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Our QuickStart is designed to provide you
with expert technical services to help in the early
stage of a SharePoint deployment project.
Ydesigns will develop a tailored 4-6
week project to understand your requirements, design the
solution, and implement an effective SharePoint
Solution. During this effort, tasks are conducted in
short, parallel cycles with your management and staff.
The end result is a quick win with a standard SharePoint
solution that can be further enhanced for later
deployment efforts to other business areas.
Key to the value of the service is the
interactive design sessions during which our consultants
gather information on your environment and needs,
educate your staff on the critical architecture
decisions, and deploy guide you to the best solutions.
Our consultants then prepare and review an architecture
document with you and install a pilot server. The
project includes the following main elements:
Requirements
The QuickStart engagement will begin with a review of
the business requirements and the vision and scope of
the project. Key project criteria will be considered in
the context of the organization's business objectives.
Framing the vision and scope focuses the project,
creating more valuable results with less risk.
Design Sessions
Our team will lead a series of interactive design
sessions covering the core decisions that must be made
to successfully develop a first pass design. The design
sessions will cover:
¨ Knowledge
management analysis:
The first step is a review of your existing document
management and workflow processes, and discussion of
content sources, user roles, indexing, search, and
portal requirements.
¨ System
architecture:
Capacity planning calculations, server configuration
recommendations, and client requirements.
¨ Taxonomy
Design:
When the infrastructure is designed we can turn
attention to organizing documents and defining approval
processes.
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Integration in your environment:
A key aspect of SharePoint is its ability to integrate
with existing content and security models. We will cover
content sources and migration as well as integration
with Microsoft and third party products.
¨ Operations
Issues:
Key operational procedures and monitoring practices.
¨ Deployment
Planning:
Customizing workflow and the portal will be discussed
along with initial plans for deployment, integration,
and content migration.
¨ Interoperability:
Coexistence with current systems is vital to a
successful information technology deployment and
migration. Our consultants will provide direction on
interoperability with existing content sources, workflow
processes, and security infrastructures as needed.
¨ Assessment:
Information will be gathered on the existing environment
during the design sessions so that the plan addresses
any issues including those related to legacy systems:
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Wide area network design
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Network operating systems
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Existing content sources
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E-mail infrastructure
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Proxy and firewall servers
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Document management processes
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Application integration requirements
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User population breakdown by location and
role
Deliverables
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Process, Infrastructure and Organization
Assessment
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Detailed Project Implementation Plan
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Project Charter
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Installed & Tested SharePoint Solution
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Standard Security Model and Workflow
Analysis
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High Level Architecture
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