SharePoint technologies offer a wide set of opportunities for businesses today.  While IT Professionals focus their attention on how best to deploy SharePoint technologies, executives and business managers asked even more pressing questions – How can we best leverage these technologies? Who needs them the most?  What effects will these technologies have on our organization? 

Cyberplex has developed a best practice for driving out a corporate vision, centered around defining a set of high level priorities for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).  Cyberplex’s Corporate Envisioning for MOSS 2007 helps our clients drive greater returns on their SharePoint investment, faster.  Corporate Envisioning is a way of investing in your success by first bringing all the stakeholders to a common understanding of what the technology can do and where it fits in your organization.  This is achieved through the use of committee based meetings and discussions to build consensus as well as smaller specialist meetings to narrow scope areas to reasonable deliverables and functionality.

The following is an outline of Cyberplex’s Corporate Envisioning for MOSS 2007:

Stakeholder Portal Basics Session
This is an initial meeting that brings stakeholders and subject matter experts together for an Introduction to MOSS 2007.  This includes demonstration and case study insights of the technology and will include a Q&A period to start the thought process of what this engagement might encompass.  This event will be led by a senior Cyberplex SharePoint consultant.  At the end of the meeting, the stakeholders are provided with a survey or priorities for consideration.

Initial Requirements Gathering
These independent meetings are led by a senior SharePoint architect or consultant.  Results from the priority surveys are used to drive out high level requirements. Detailed notes of these meetings will become the basis of the vision / scope document to be produced at a later stage.  In parallel to this effort, the consultant will work with the IT group to understand current investments to help guide a corporate vision.

Vision and Technical Design Document (Solution Blueprint)
The corporate vision and high level requirements will be summarized and will form the envisioning component of the Solution Blueprint document.  The consultants and senior architect will then work together on converting the user requirements into technical design.  The technical design will cover areas such as conceptual site map, logical and physical database design, standard conventions, logical and physical architectures, and best practices for implementation of the technology.

Solution Blueprint Review
In this last stage all of the previously developed documents are brought together and an overall composite document prepared.  Using the scope and implementation documents the team will develop a master project plan, release plan, initial work estimate and budget for delivery and implementation.

Price
This exclusive engagement including Stakeholder Basics Session, 5 stakeholder sessions and Solution Blueprint delivery is $10,000.  Additional stakeholder interviews can be added at $500 per interview and recording.