Microsoft SharePoint is a leading web-based portal platform that provides highly-valuable capabilities including collaboration functions, process management modules, enterprise search and a document management platform. The Gartner Group recently placed SharePoint in the leaders quadrant in three of its Magic Quadrants including Search, Portals, and Enterprise Content Management.
Northridge leverages SharePoint to improve business productivity and efficiency thus positively impacting both revenue and earnings for our clients. SharePoint is a horizontal solution foundation and a development platform that is tightly integrated with Windows Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), Active Directory, the .NET Framework, PerformancePoint Services and SQL Server. SharePoint's portal, collaboration, search, and content management features can provide value across all departments of the enterprise.
A proper implementation of SharePoint involves a healthy mix of both business consulting and technology consulting. It is imperative to engage in proper analysis and Q&A with company managers to determine how SharePoint can provide maximum benefit to the organization. Through this analysis a comprehensive set of functional specifications are developed that encompass the desired SharePoint solution. Leveraging those requirements, the technology team can then implement SharePoint and develop the custom functionality and integration points with other enterprise systems. Northridge manages the entire engagement through our True North Methodology™.
One of the key requirements of a successful SharePoint implementation is the involvement of an experienced and reliable implementation partner like Northridge. Northridge has leveraged SharePoint as a platform for numerous complex client enterprise intranets, extranets, business intelligence solutions, customized business applications and public websites. Northridge is an expert in the architecture, implementation, customization, extension, user interface design, and adoption of SharePoint.
From a technology perspective, Northridge solutions are typically composed of several layers of Microsoft technology with SharePoint often as a foundation combined with custom .NET development, PerformancePoint Services, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Reporting Services, SQL Analysis Services, and SQL Integration Services.
Northridge has a proven set of SharePoint implementation best practices to ensure your solution meets both near and long-term needs. We carefully analyze the implementation objectives, environment, and management to define configuration options, data security requirements, departmental, group, team and personnel structuring, and key reporting requirements. The Northridge SharePoint team has extensive experience leading organizations through the SharePoint implementation process leveraging these proven best practices, our methodology, and our 10+ year track record of success.