SharePoint Consulting Services & Solutions

Microsoft SharePoint Server is one the fastest selling products in Microsoft’s long and distinguished history as a provider of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software solutions. SharePoint has rapidly become the de facto standard enterprise business collaboration platform across commercial, government and nonprofit organizations.

TrueTandem recognized this growth trend early in the SharePoint’s history and has made significant investments to provide a full range of SharePoint Consulting Services and Solutions.

SharePoint Consulting Services

TrueTandem offers three major types of SharePoint Consulting Services engagements:

• SharePoint Training & Planning Services – Whether you are new to SharePoint or an experienced client looking to move to the latest version of SharePoint, TrueTandem’s SharePoint Training and Planning Services is the place to start. We start with any pre-paid or no-cost training and planning engagements that may be available to you, and only move to paid engagements once those resources are exhausted.
  
  See the SharePoint Training & Planning Services page for more details.
  
  
• SharePoint Infrastructure & Integration Services – Leveraging a combination of Microsoft’s published SharePoint best practices, planning tools, the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and TrueTandem’s “Make It Real” process, we will work with you in tandem to ensure that you have an optimized SharePoint infrastructure that will ensure the success of our SharePoint integration efforts. This class of services is primarily focused on providing largely “out-of-the-box” SharePoint functionality to meet your business needs. Custom Development requires more time, complexity and money, which increases risk. TrueTandem consultants work very diligently to avoid custom development whenever and wherever possible in order to keep risk, complexity and the level of financial investments necessary to meet your business needs as low as possible.
  
  See the SharePoint Infrastructure & Integration Services page for more details.
  
  
• SharePoint Custom Development Services – As much as we may try to leverage as much “out-of-the-box” SharePoint functionality as reasonably possible, business requirements can get very complex, particularly when optimizing or migrating from legacy environments. Sometimes SharePoint Custom Development Services are critical to business success. TrueTandem has the SharePoint and Development experience to ensure the success of our clients.
  
  See the SharePoint Customer Development Services page for more details.

SharePoint Solutions

The above SharePoint services offerings enable the delivery of solutions to meet the business needs of our clients by spanning all six of the major SharePoint functional areas:

• Sites – TrueTandem consultants work with our clients to build and leverage SharePoint Sites that deliver a single infrastructure to provide portal and collaboration capabilities across intranet, extranet, and Internet sites. Sites functionality has the ability to bring users together to share information, data and expertise within and across organizations.
• Content – TrueTandem consultants work with our clients to leverage SharePoint 2010 to deliver core content management capabilities in a single, extensible platform. These capabilities are central to the SharePoint platform and provide a consistent approach to managing traditional content (Word, Excel®, PowerPoint, PDF), Web content, and social content (blogs, wikis). By taking an integrated approach to Enterprise Content Management (ECM), SharePoint 2010 can reduce the need to maintain multiple systems and develop costly integration solutions, and TrueTandem has the qualifications, certifications and reputation to offer our clients confidence in our partnership to meet all content management needs.
• Search – SharePoint Search gives users the ability to find the content, information and people they need by combining an integrated, easy-to-manage platform with best-of-breed enterprise search technology. TrueTandem has the capabilities necessary to assist our clients in optimizing their use of SharePoint’s native Search capabilities as well as the more enhanced FAST Search capabilities for greater enterprise level search functionality.
• Insights – Through SharePoint 2010’s ability to integrate with a multitude of Business Intelligence (BI) tools and Line-of-Business (LOB) applications, TrueTandem consultants work with organizations to use Microsoft Excel® 2010 and Excel® Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to make relevant business decisions at the corporate level. PerformancePoint Services uses Excel®, Visio Services and Excel® Services to complement its BI tools to deliver a corporate dashboard that may reflect elements of personal and team BI. By design, all Microsoft BI products interoperate so that teams and people inside an organization can move across the continuum of personal, team and organizational and have all products work together.
• Communities – Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 implements features that make enterprise social computing and collaboration easier. Social networking tools, such as My Site Web sites and social content technologies such as blogs, wikis and really simple syndication (RSS), are examples of social computing features. By assisting our clients to optimize these features, TrueTandem will work with you to enable users to easily capture and share the knowledge and expertise that is needed to do their work. This sharing of information encourages collaboration, improves innovation, and targets relevant content to the people who have to see it. We’ll work with you to adapt content to each user while enabling administrators to set policies to protect privacy.
• Composites – Finally, TrueTandem can work with you to leverage SharePoint Composites in order to empower users to rapidly respond to business needs by creating their own no-code solutions on-premises or in the cloud, through a rich set of building blocks, tools, and self-service capabilities. We’ll work with you to optimize Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to enable SharePoint integration with external data, including line of business applications.