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A Selection of Assignments |
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| Pearson Shared
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Pearson Shared Services (PSS) is the IT Department for the
European operations of Pearson Plc, a FTSE 100 company and owner
of publishing brands such as the Financial Times, Penguin Books,
Dorling Kindersley, Rough Guides, Pearson Education etc.
SharePoint Visioneers Project Directed the implementation of
SharePoint (MOSS 2007 and WSS v3) to the whole enterprise with
responsibility for all aspects including setting the development
strategy, setting the project scope, designing the technical
architecture, establishing the governance procedures, rolling
out the initial sites, developing and delivering training
material for all users from farm administrators to end users.
They built and trained the permanent in house teams to support
MOSS and WSS. In the process they changed the corporate
appetite (senior management and junior staff) for SharePoint
from lukewarm to extremely enthusiastic. Early projects quickly
generated significant improvements to the bottom line.
SharePoint Visioneers are currently helping them plan the
migration to SharePoint 2010.
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| The Office of Fair
Trading |
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is a UK government department
responsible for monitoring trading practices and prosecuting
trading malpractices across the whole UK economy.
They needed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their
case management procedures and processes. Members of the
SharePoint Visioneers team devised and implemented a proof of
concept website demonstrating the new document, records
management and social networking features of SharePoint 2010.
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AOL Broadband |
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Immediately
after the Carphone Warehouse take over of AOL Broadband there
was an urgent need to set up a new branded Intranet that was
informative, fun and conformed to the exacting needs of the
brand managers. MOSS 2007 fitted the bill and was configured,
installed and populated with lots of useful content in just 4
weeks. SharePoint Visioneers are now working with AOL BB to
migrate their document management system from SharePoint Portal
Server 2003 to MOSS 2007.
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Hachette Livre |
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The Group
IT department of this leading publishing house wanted to use
SharePoint to manage their numerous implementation projects.
SharePoint Visioneers helped them to identify their real
business needs, configured the system, trained key users in how
to operate the system and showed them how to brand the site and
target key data to selected audiences.
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An advertising agency |
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A certain
advertising agency had a problem! They had committed to a
client to deliver an Intranet site, but did not know how to do
it using the client's chosen platform, MOSS 2007. SharePoint
Visioneers came to the rescue introducing the agency to the
powerful branding capabilities of the latest version of
SharePoint.
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Disaster Recovery |
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Disasters
do happen even to the best of managed sites. The company
hosting of one of our client's sites had a seriously bad day -
their server crashed and their backups too.... Fortunately we
had our own backup files and were able to recreate their whole
system on a new server, in a new domain. Are we glad that we
had practiced Disaster Recovery before we had to put it in to
practice for real.
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Transport for London |
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TfL wanted to determine
whether that it was possible for a visitor to any one of their
websites to search the contents of all their websites via one
search enquiry and produce relevant results.
A SharePoint site using the Coveo search
engine was set up and in less than 2 weeks from start to
finish proved that the concept was indeed feasible.
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SharePoint Teams up with English cricket |
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One of the biggest system
changes seen by the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has just
been installed by GPW Consultancy. Labeled as the Information
Gateway to Recreational Cricket, SharePoint Portal Server is
delivering key data to the ECB's Development Officers, Cricket
Clubs, Sport England, Local Educational Authorities, Child
Welfare Officers and more, around the country using a secure
extranet. The system now has 2,000 registered users and is
helping to raise £'s millions for grassroots cricket.
Key Performance Indicators, Club Development Plans, CRB
certification, Special Projects all require data to be shared
amongst a large geographically dispersed user base of permanent
staff and volunteers.
Stephen Wilder, the Project Manager and a partner of GPW
Consultancy, said "SharePoint's ease of use, ability to collate
data from multiple sources, control who has access to the data
and speed of development were very impressive. We implemented
quite a complex pilot site in a matter of weeks where previously
we would have expected it to take months to deliver the same
functionality. And what is more we successfully rolled out the
pilot site to 500 users over a period of one week. Not bad for
a pilot!"
"This system will help the ECB identify and nurture top
cricketers of the future and hopefully enable England to retain
the Ashes now that they have won them back from Australia!"
If you would like more information about what we have done and
how we do it, or feel that you too would like to team up with
SharePoint then give us a call or send an email to the address
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