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Solutions

The sharepoint platform is used to meet the diverse needs of many varied business requirments in both profit and not for profit sectors. In this space we have called 'Solutions' we are listing a range of proven techiniques, templates or phosphy that are build up on sharepoint and one or a number of our supported tools from vendors such as Quest Software or Nintex.

In some cases the solutions will be downloadable from our web site, templated applications or our SOA connectors for Notes are a great example of this. In other cases, for example our 'Notes Independene' solutions this will require a combination of some consulting, training, and support before from our team for you to effective ly implment the solution.

Our 'solutions' will run on sharepoint and require at lease 'Quest Web parts for SharePoint', 'Nintex workflow 2007' and or 'Lotus Notes Migrator' depending on your needs.

Business benifits ( 2 Articles )
Single site applications ( 1 Article )
Cross site applications ( 4 Articles )
Composite applications ( 4 Articles )
Business applications ( 7 Articles )

Off the shelf sharepoint Business Applications [SBA] – The Devworkz SPA platform has allowed us to develop a business Solutions Rapid Application Development methodology. Each SBA stands in direct comparison to the proprietary offerings of the main market players. Being completely sharepoint based however means you can easily mould these to directly suit your specific needs. Furthermore you can further leverage you sharepoint platform and reduce the number of technologies needed to meet your business requirements. The platform and SBAs can be installed in just a few hours with limited knowledge or be provided as a SaaS platform. Individual SBAs will solve immediate business needs – configurable directly to your needs. Benifits include;
- Grow usage in existing sharepoint environment
- Help users and customers visualise what can actually be achieved on the sharepoint platform
- Optimising and simplifying the automation of processes
- Provide out of the box Proof of Concept (PoC) platform
- Dramatically increase your technical skills by using these templates as building blocks for additional solutions.
- Do more quickly with fewer demands on technical resource
- Let business user configure applications directly
Initial SBA's include the following:
- ClientPoint – Sales Automation and CRM solution – April 2009
- CampaignPoint – Marketing Solution – April 2009
- MeetingPoint – Formal Meeting Solution – April 2009
- LearningPoint – Integrated Training and SCORM Solution – April 2009
- ProjectPoint – Enterprise Project Management – May 2009
- PeoplePoint – HR Core Set – May 2009
  - Employee Tracking
  - Absence & Holidays
  - Discipline & Grievance
  - Starters & Leavers
- PerformancePoint – HR Improvement set – June 2009
  - Performance
  - Recruitment & Interviewing
  - Job Profiles & Competencies
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Independence from Notes ( 4 Articles )
Independence from Notes - For organisations seeking independence from the Notes platform, Devworkz offers a number of technical solutions and services for the migration to the Windows platform.The migration of standard content to the reconstruction of complex Notes applications in sharepoint can be readily handled by our proven solutions and techniques tailored for this purpose. Depending on your situation solutions for ‘migration’, ‘recomposition’ and or ‘coexistence’ can be used to gain full Notes independence.

Most organisations will require one or more of these scenarios to achieve independence from Notes.
New rapid development Notes connector for Application Coexistence and data mash-ups in sharepoint “Our rapid provisioning of Notes databases with ’web services’ and ‘agents’ allows easy, agile, application development and coexistence in sharepoint. From sharepoint you can display, edit, update and create new Notes documents. Build application functionality without custom code, all with a ‘point and a click’! Leave your Notes content in place and re-align you development budget and resources to the sharepoint platform”

New auto discovery and audit tools We can now provide a complete auto discovery, audit and analysis of your Notes environment. Accurately quantify and assess your Notes assets. Analyse and provision them for migration, recomposition or coexistence into sharepoint.
1. Content Migration - The Notes Migrator for sharepoint is a proven, cost-effective tool for quickly and successfully moving Notes documents to Microsoft Office sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 or Windows sharepoint Services (WSS) v3.
2. Recomposition - The recomposition of Notes applications in sharepoint involves the migration of content and then the reconstruction of application logic and workflow in sharepoint.
3. Coexistence - Notes coexistence is where application logic and workflow is created in sharepoint but the content still residing in the Notes database. In this case Quests Web Parts for sharepoint provides a direct connection to Notes via an internal web service.
Cloud computing ( 2 Articles )
Cloud Services - BPOS, Business Productivity Online Suite part of Microsoft Online Services - Available in April 2009!

Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is the first major release of corporate Software as a Service by Microsoft. You already know Microsoft can deliver the collaboration and communication tools you need to succeed. Now, Microsoft and InfoStrata Solutions offer them as Online Services—fully-hosted in world-class data centres from Microsoft. Your organisation will be supported by a high-performance team who can keep your software up-to-date and optimised, helping you realize value from your technology investments even faster. When you work with Microsoft and DevworkzSolutions, you’ll have the winning combination you need to accelerate your business.
- BPOS includes Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft sharepoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online.
- Streamlined communications. Your users can work with the same rich clients they already know and use—all within an integrated experience, from virtually any device, in almost any location.
- Simplified management. Provide the tools your organization needs without requiring ongoing upgrades or installations. Microsoft Online Services put our IT resources to work for you.
- Business-class security and reliability. Work with confidence knowing that these Online Services from Microsoft run on a network of world-class data centres protected by multiple layers of security, operational best practices – all while providing 99.9% uptime.
Dynamic Hosted Solutions
- Combine the power of rich desktop-based applications with the flexibility of fully-hosted Internet services
- Experience an all-in-one integrated experience on the same rich clients your users already know
- Delivers a consistent look and feel from virtually any device, in almost any location
- Includes business-class e-mail, instant messaging, and the latest messaging and collaboration features
The Power of Choice with Software-plus-Services
- Choose to run some applications on-premises, or choose Online Services hosted and managed by Microsoft or Microsoft Partners
- Implement a flexible combination of on-premises, Microsoft hosted, and Partner-hosted solutions
- Adjust your deployment model dynamically as your business needs shift and grow
Easy to Deploy, Easy to Manage
- Provide the tools your organization needs and quickly and easily extend new capabilities to your organization without straining internal resources
- Microsoft Online Services synchronize with your Microsoft Active Directory, so you maintain control and can continue to manage user policies centrally
- Single administrative panel enables simple and centralized provisioning and management of new and existing user.
Devworkz Solutions can offer assistance with:
- Procuring Microsoft Online Services. We can provide valuable information and assist you throughout the sales process.
- Deployment and Migration. Making the transition to a hosted service is even easier with a partner to help with implementation and the migration of your users.
- Customization and Integration. Being able to customize a solution for your organization that integrates hosted services with existing on-premise applications is a unique advantage of working with InfoStrata Solutions and Microsoft.
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SIpoint SAP to sharepoint integration ( 9 Articles )

SIpoint is a program that gives certainty and value to the integration SAP in sharepoint and the broader Microsoft. SIpoint leverages the existing ‘services architecture’ in SAP in a way that ABAP developers can build and provision a defined set of service patterns to ‘ZOA’, an SAP open source standard. These services expose a rich set of content and features ready to snap into sharepoint via industry recognized tools such as Quest Web Parts for sharepoint and Nintex Workflow. SIpoint provides a framework to standardize, simplify and significantly remove the traditional risks associated in cross platform integration and application development.
Codeless development tools make full use of the sharepoint infrastructure and interface to give developers and power to build out dynamic solutions that empower information workers with real time access to SAP from sharepoint.
As such we have worked to integrate the 'Sitrion' platform with the 'Quests Web Parts for SharePoint' and 'Nintex Workflow' as it dramatically simplifies the complexities involved in leveraging SAP data and processes in sharepoint based applications. The combination of expert business management knowledge of business processes and a high degree of technological know-how make Sitrion Systems one of the leading companies in the area of SAP/ERP system integration with the Microsoft .NET platform.
The following video runs for a few moments and will give you a feel for the range of capability and ease of configuration SIpoint can deliver.
SIpoint enables an ever increasing number of company and employee benefits, a few of which are:
- SIpoint makes SAP business processes and information accessible to every employee through their familiar sharepoint environment
- SIpoint makes information instantly usable by the information and task workers, with no additional training
- SIpoint can increase corporate process compliance by simplifying employees ability to access and interact with business processes and data
- SIpoint can improve decision making by giving employees and managers simple and timely access to relevant, contextual business information
- SIpoint can decrease the risk and increase the return on investment (ROI) of new ERP and enterprise software implementations by reducing the user learning curve and accelerating the user adoption curve
- SIpoint was designed for the vast number of information workers who spend much of their time in the Microsoft world
- SIpoint is designed for rapid implementation with simple codeless configuration on the sharepoint side
SAP data in SharePoint lists and forms
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SAPpoint ( 3 Articles )

SAP data in SharePoint lists and forms
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SAPPointTopPanel ( 1 Article )

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