Microsoft Business Solutions SharePoint

The Rand Group brings you solutions built using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server facilitating collaboration within an organization and with partners and customers. Using the combined collaboration features of SharePoint Portal Server, users in your organization can easily create, manage, and build their own collaborative Web sites and make them available throughout the organization. Portals provide a single point of entry to information and applications and can pay off for companies by reducing the amount of time users spend searching for the documents and applications they need.

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server enables enterprises to develop intelligent portals that seamlessly connect users, teams, and knowledge so that people can take advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them work more efficiently. Document versioning, approval workflow, check in and check out, document profiling, and publishing facilitate easy collaboration on documents, projects, and tasks. SharePoint sites for teams, documents, and meetings can also be extended to customers and partners, augmenting the reach and efficiency of existing collaboration methods.

Relevant content, such as line-of-business and Office programs, Web services, news, sales, and other company data, is delivered to the portal through Web Parts. Web Parts can be downloaded from Microsoft and industry partners by IT departments, or they can be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET. Authorized users can add Web Parts to organizational or divisional portals from Web Part galleries, without the need for any Web development experience. In addition, IT departments can "lock down" specific Web Parts or page zones so that organizations can distribute important information to all employees through the portal. Users are also provided personal portal pages, called My Site, where they can organize the information, programs, and SharePoint sites they access throughout the day. For more information contact The Rand Group at info@randgrp.com