NHS SharePoint 2007 Solution Accelerator
We recognise that many organisations have identified business needs that they want to address and may have identified SharePoint 2007 as part of the solution; however because they are not immersed in the detail of SharePoint 2007 it isn't always clear what features they want, what the priorities are and what the information architecture and detailed design should be.
With many stakeholders involved and many choices to be made it can be difficult to make the rapid progress that is desired - too much haste leads to rushed decisions, too much planning and analysis leads to delay and a failure to get to grips with the solution.
Cloud2 commonly adopt our Solution Accelerator approach: we commonly have a good idea about what makes up 80% of your solution since we have done it before. So instead of presenting your project team with a clean sheet of paper and telling you to describe what you want us to build, we do an early rollout of our SharePoint 2007 Solution Accelerator. This is a standard SharePoint 2007 deployment geared to the needs of most trusts, with the common structures, content types and features. It isn't a finished solution, but it provides plenty for you to start to use, to learn how SharePoint 2007 works and what else you would like it to do for you. Then we fill in the gaps, enhance the functions and mould it to your needs.
The essence of the Solution Accelerator is the rich Information Archtecture, representing over a man year's worth of development:
Portal Areas
Major navigation and functional areas
- Information Archetypes
- Where and how to locate content
- Content Types
- Hierarchy of content definitions
- Metadata
- Content description fields
This is supplemented with a set of powerful features such as faceted search, people search, tag clouds, Policies and Procedures management, News Centre and more.
We think it saves time, lets you make better decisions informed through use, and delivers a better end result.
The Solution Accelerator demo site provides the opportunity for Trusts to see the Accelerator in action themselves. The landing page gives links to the following areas:
Document Management
Unpublished document library
Rich metadata for Policies & Procedures
Enchanced enterprise faceted Search
CUI Policies & Procedures
Freedom of Information
IG Toolkit
Performance
Site Templates
Intranet homepage
Travel Expense Forms
Room & Resource Booking
Benefits Realisation
Click here to request a login to the Solution Accelerator demo site