SharePoint Consulting Services

 

Many companies deploy SharePoint without doing any strategic planning. The result is a SharePoint environment with no ownership, site sprawl, lots of “junk” (stale or duplicate content), compromised security, and a frustrated user community. Alto located in Minneapolis, Minnesota focuses on SharePoint consulting and best practices that drive success so that SharePoint is deployed correctly the first time. Our Microsoft-certified SharePoint experts help clients establish business requirements, develop a governance plan, define the technical architecture, and drive adoption.

• Educate stakeholders and gather preliminary requirements.
• Develop deeper requirements and usage scenarios, and identify dependencies.
• Define priorities and offer a phased approach.
• Present the business case for utilizing certain features.

• Define roles and responsibilities.
• Develop an information architecture.
• Document information management policies and establish guidelines for customization.
• Define security principles, policies and standards.

• Document scale and capacity requirements.
• Establish the infrastructure required, and define the physical architecture and farm topology.
• Define the logical architecture and site topology.
• Understand resource requirements for ongoing support and maintenance.
• Create a detailed description of how the solution will be implemented including a plan for testing the deployment.

• Ensure that solutions are aligned with business and employee objectives.
• Help secure executive sponsorship and drive regular communication.
• Provide user training through our public SharePoint training classes and/or customized training at our location or yours.
• Be involved in gathering continual feedback so that the site can evolve as required.