Workgroups, teams, and communities have a fundamental need to share information. The recent and rapid evolution of communication habits, and their underlying technologies, now provide organizations the means to enable people to share information more efficiently and effectively, collaborating in ways that allow them to do their jobs better than ever!

A special breed of web sites now exists that make great strides in addressing the wide variety of collaboration requirements. These special web sites are called Enterprise Portals, or simply Portals. And, one of the leading technologies is the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The concept of the Portal is to act as a central point for publishing information. The form and format of information supported by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007  is quite broad. The functionality involved with content publishing is also quite broad, addressing important issues such as accessibility, security, content approval, revision management, organization, searching, system integration and many other aspects of information retrieval and dispersal.

Organizations that need to control or reduce the costs, overhead and management of distributing information can benefit from implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.  And Chartwell IT can help you determine how best to deploy it to meet the complete needs of your organization, offering services for:

• Product orientation and strategy
• Architecture planning and definition
• Implementation and rollout
• Standards, taxonomy and governance definition
• Master Page design and development
• SharePoint Feature and Solution development, including:
  • Web parts, .Net controls and custom SharePoint web pages
  • Workflows¹
  • Custom site and list definition
  • Event receivers and templates
• System integration
• Search service implementation and customization

To learn more about how portal technology can help your organization, contact Chartwell IT. We can help you understand the possibilities and benefits of publishing information through a web portal.

¹ Workflows allow the communication tasks associated with specific business processes to be automated by implementing business rules for improved organizational response, process compliance and follow-up.

* Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation