Our Navigate™ approach to SharePoint deployment provides a strategy and roadmap aligned with your business goals and objectives.

Combining our portal and collaboration domain expertise with nearly a decade of successful SharePoint enterprise portal engagements, Northridge is a unique partner for our clients. With a focus on delivering maximum ROI with every engagement, our market-leading personnel leverage Navigate to address the strategic role that SharePoint will have in your organization. Navigate produces a clearly defined plan for your SharePoint implementation that will drive business value by addressing your core, strategic business objectives.

A graphical representation of the key elements of our Navigate approach to SharePoint is provided below.

Navigate includes the following high-level components:

• Business Objectives: Evaluating and prioritizing your organization’s business needs and objectives is paramount to the success of your SharePoint implementation. Furthermore, a better understanding of current pain points within your organization will help drive the business requirements of the solution. Establishing a shared vision of the goals, success factors, and business requirements of the enterprise portal provides guidance for the remainder of the SharePoint strategy engagement.
• Organizational Readiness: Is your organization ready for SharePoint? This assessment is focused on evaluating your organization’s preparedness for governing, supporting, and rolling out a SharePoint enterprise portal. Here, the aim is to define an approach to leverage your strengths and address your weaknesses in this area. 
• Infrastructure Readiness:  Establishing the goals and objectives for a physical architecture strategy within your organization is essential to making sound technical decisions during an implementation.  Evaluating accessibility needs, utilization goals, disaster recovery requirements, migration goals, and other infrastructure-related requirements are components of this strategy.  Assessing your organization’s means for platform management and solution management facilitates an infrastructure strategy that promises to utilize your current skills and knowledge while aiming to address areas of concern.
• User Engagement: User engagement includes both how users will interact with the solution, such as the creative design and information organization, and how they will interact with one another through enterprise social collaboration.

To learn more about how Northridge can help your organization, please contact us.