Collaboration using MOSS

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities and people-driven processes. Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the overall Microsoft collaboration vision and integrates with other collaborative products to offer a comprehensive infrastructure for working with others. The collaboration features of MOSS allow you to improve team productivity, author, review and publish documents & streamline people driven business processes.

MOSS as a portal Site

Portal sites connect people to business applications, give access to relevant information and provide a platform to share relevant information with co-workers. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a world class Enterprise Portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of your business.
A portal site helps organization to connect its employees & business associates to information and expertise, connect to relevant business applications and role specific resources.

MOSS based Enterprise Search

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an excellent enterprise search solution for organizations that want to increase productivity and reduce information overload by providing their employees, partners, and customers the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats. With actionable search results that respect security permissions, MOSS 2007 lets users go beyond documents and across repositories to unlock information, find people, and locate expertise in the enterprise.

MOSS Based Enterprise Content Management

Over a period of time, organizations create a huge volume of unstructured content that includes documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages, and more. This content is rarely stored in a structured manner and prevents the organization from properly using these valuable assets for better knowledge sharing, improved customer communications, and increased process efficiency. Built on a well-integrated platform, ECM from Microsoft easily extends content management to every information worker in the organization. A Microsoft ECM solution can help businesses in Manage diverse content, Satisfy compliance & legal requirements, efficiently manage multiple Web sites, Streamline business processes.
The ECM capabilities of MOSS include Document management, record management, Web content management and providing forms based data collection.

MOSS Based Business Process Automation

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides built-in workflow templates to automate approval, review, and archiving processes. With Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can also create, maintain, and analyze custom workflows, enabling you to streamline your collaborative processes. Electronic forms provided through InfoPath Forms Services are an integral part of such workflows. These InfoPath designed electronic forms make it easy to collect and validate information that drives your business processes. And you can collect and validate this information right from the Microsoft Office client applications you use every day.

Solutions & Frameworks on Share Point Portal

1) WorXPace: WorXPace framework is targeted toward Sales and Distribution oriented organizations in the consumer packaged industry and their key customers - Channel partners (Distributors). Users of this would include Sales persons, Sales Managers / Directors, Brand managers and channel partners. The worXPace portal solution is very comprehensive in terms of functionality taking care of their business transactions, providing the relevant information at finger tips, providing collaborative environment and provides appropriate Information analysis (business intelligence). WorXPace uses a variety of Microsoft tools and technologies technologies to manage the flow of information through numerous sales, marketing and Partner relationship management processes. The result is improved sharing of information, enhanced collaboration, better decision-making and a more efficient approach to the entire distribution processes.

The worXPace portal won the pan-Asian Microsoft Productivity eXPerience Solutions Challenge (PESC) contest in 2002. Organized by Microsoft, the contest was aimed at Microsoft's ISV partners in the Asian region, providing an opportunity to test the skills and readiness for the emerging productivity solutions market.

2) Comprehensive B2B & B2C Portal for a leading online Car Portal: Carhound, a leading player in UK market, entrusted Sonata with the development of a comprehensive portal for customer and affiliated dealers/distributors related to cars. The solution had a major challenge in terms of Integration with JATO car database and other third party sites like Payment Gateway. The solution was not only developed and deployed by Sonata in record time but also won Customer Experience of the year" at WWPC, Toronto, a global competition held by Microsoft where Microsoft partners can present only live solutions developed and deployed on MS technologies.

3) New Production Development cycle using Office 2007Linking Office Systems into an ERP and collaborating information flow across Office tools can certainly bring about a big change in the way office systems are used. Given that an Information Worker spends significant amount of his/her time on Office systems, enabling them with access to backend data and allowing them to analyze and collaborate through Office systems improves information reach and worker productivity. The 'New Product Development' showcase application demonstrates a cross section of Office 2007 features that can change the way information works use Office tools.

'New Product Development' cycle addresses three functional stages - Market Research, Product Design and Production. Each of these stages has been implemented as departmental portals using Office 2007 components. 'New Product Development portal' addresses the below needs of business users.

• Unified portal
  
• Tools to aid research and analysis
  
• Tools to aid decision making
  
• Tools to aid business process
  
• Business workflows
  
• Access to Line of Business application's data through the portal