2009
Practical Uses of
SharePoint
Webinar
January 27, 2009
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Introduction
• What is SharePoint?
• Case studies
• Intranet
• Project Management
• Q&A – other uses of SharePoint
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What is SharePoint
• A suite of server
technologies from
Microsoft
• A “business function
view” rather than a
filing cabinet view
• Spectrum of services
from small and
simple, to complex
“enterprise-class”
enterprise-class
capabilities.
• Strong integration
with Office
applications
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NRCB Intranet
• Geographic Access Challenge
• Head office, one larger, and
4 regional offices
• Case work might be divided
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geographically, but may be
assigned by type of file
• Regional offices have
relatively poor access to the
file shares
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Collect information requirements
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• Develop a list of the required information types
–AAnnouncements
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– Events
– Documents
• Develop a list of all the document that need to be stored on
the Intranet
• Develop a list of calendars
• Develop a list of announcements
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Determine functional needs
• What meta data needs to be associated with
each document?
• When items should be deleted, archived?
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• What headings should be displayed?
• What order should the documents appear
in?
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Integrate security
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• Develop a security plan
• What level of access is required? Read, Write?
• Who can access what where?
• Create required groups
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• NRCB’s security used network logon
– Users only need to login once
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Develop home page template
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Develop primary page templates
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Develop secondary page template
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Develop document list template
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Versioning
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Use the templates to assemble the site
Templates Site Map
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NRCB Intranet - Benefits
• Improved access to key
document by the regional offices
• Stronger toolbox for managing
cardinal copies of documents
• Meets legislated records
retention requirements
• Fast project – 6 weeks
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How could it apply to y
pp y you?
• Improve records management with remote offices or
personnel who are on the road – all stored in one place.
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Reduces risk of l
i k f loss/theft of confidential i f
/th ft f fid ti l information
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• Improve retention of documents for statutory
requirements
• Manage working documents better, avoid multiple
attachments with multiple versions.
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Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta
• Project Management
Challenge
Vendor 1
• Managing testing of a large
Internal Test
IT project
Vendor 2 • Number f
N b of people involved:
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Internal
2 vendors(9) + client(11)
Test
User test
IT Review
• Pass to
• Pass to user
complete
test
• Or return for • Or Return for
changes Changes
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Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta
Benefits
412 it
items entered
td
x 4 interactions (request, resolve, or return)
= 1,648
as many as 8 people on average would
x 8 have been cc'd
= 13,184 total emails avoided
• Nearly 14,000 emails avoided!
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• Reduced risk of items getting missed
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Develop some rules & training
• The technology is pretty straight forward and easy to
use
• But, is till
B t it i still worth while t create some “ l ” and
th hil to t “rules” d
develop some training to make sure the form is used
properly
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Create the list
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Modify list
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Add list to page
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Deliver training & send out URL
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• We delivered a 30 minute training session to make sure
that users understood how the form was to be used.
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Log an issue
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Respond to an issue
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How could it apply to y
pp y you?
• Project, event, issue, or task management!
• Any scenario where multiple individuals need to review,
resolve, or respond t requests.
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• Action or information requests
• Review of deliverables in a wide variety of
collaborative projects
• Report and analyze metrics in Excel
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xxs t 3XXL – sizes of SharePoint
to i f Sh P i t
Office SharePoint Server for Internet Sites
Public website delivery of content
Unlimited user access
Office SharePoint Server Enterprise
MOSS 2007Enterprise Business process and forms, business intelligence
Office SharePoint Server Standard
MOSS 2007 Standard Content management, portal, enterprise search
Windows
Windo s SharePoint Services
Ser ices
WSS 3.0 Core collaboration technology available here
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Advanced Uses of SharePoint
• Business process integration – manage workflow
• Platform for organization 2.0 (wikis, blogs)
• Business Intelligence portal – lookup and summarize
corporate data sources
• Full public website content management
• Searchable email archive
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• Records management
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Answers and Questions
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jbeauchamp@redengine.com
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• nmendoza@redengine.com
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• 780 414 0975
780.414.0975
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