How To Run An Effective Sharepoint Pilot Project

Any large software solution implementation involves a pilot project that should test the platform’s capability of meeting some long term objectives. The decision to run a pilot project should be made by taking into consideration some variables specific for the company, such as:

  • The level of knowledge and experience of the administrators team;
  • The training needs for the support team of level 1 and 2;
  • An applicability study on the future platform’s structure and the emulation of the information flow inside the organization;

A pilot project must be the main assessment support for the future platform and applications that will be used. A key component is the estimation of the storage space that will be allocated for the feature project, the type and the sizes of the files, how the files will be loaded and the information source.

Benefits of a SharePoint Team Site

  • Companies are continuously changing their work process policies, adopting more team-oriented approaches. Soon after the groupware concept emerged, the major software producers started to massively invest in developing products able to help companies organize and manage their teams.
     

    These days, collaboration tools are available for team members, employees or managers, through websites connected to Microsoft Office applications. Thus, teams have access to any information they need, and also to an online or offline working environment.
     

    Microsoft SharePoint Server provides users with an extensive set of templates to create the information and collaboration infrastructure. One of the most popular, flexible and widely used templates is the Team Site.

Putting SharePoint into Action

Interculturality, territorial distribution, and high interdisciplinarity changed the way companies approach the collaboration between knowledge workers. These days, companies need faster processes and their decision makers need clear and correct information at the right time. Microsoft understood this needs long time ago and created their best collaboration solution – SharePoint. 

We discussed about some of SharePoint’s benefits for companies in our previous article and today I would like to present you a SharePoint implementation program that we conducted for one of our clients, a major Oil & Gas producer in Eastern-Europe.

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