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In an age when responsive organizations are spreading across the globe, the requisite to implement collaborative solutions to share information has become critical. Now, information needs to be shared promptly between employees, customers and suppliers, who are located throughout the world. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 caters to this call of the hour and provides comprehensive content management, workflow and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries.

However, to realize this vision of a collaborative enterprise also requires a partner who can enable you to leverage the potential of MOSS 2007. Sonata Software, provides this support to its customers to strengthen the impact of MOSS.

Sonata's MOSS 2007 Capabilities

Sonata has a long involvement with Sharepoint for almost a decade now and has been involved with MOSS 2007 from the time of its pre-Beta release. With a track record of over 35 customer engagements in MOSS 2007, Sonata has significantly and successfully helped numerous organizations benefit from the power of MOSS 2007.

CoE (Center of Excellence)

Our dedicated MOSS practice team of Business Analysts, Architects and Developers, tracks the latest technology trends in this space and the best practices evolved through learning, experiences and research to develop a set of reusable solution assets - SONNETS -, comprising of over 50 web parts and components. These assets help in accelerating project time cycles & reduce implementation cost.

MOSS 2007 based services

C-MOS : Comprehensive MOSS Services

The ease of creating intranets / portals on MOSS has ironically led to the mushrooming of local & departmental sites, creating silos within the enterprise and sub - optimal utilization of licenses and deployment infrastructure.

C-MOS from Sonata takes complete ownership of your MOSS infrastructure and application setup. Our solution offers a centralized governance structure for adoption of MOSS within your enterprise by driving a consistent set of standards and best practices, based on our experience. C-MOS services are backed by our comprehensive set of services around MOSS that address virtually every need and all stages of the SDLC.

Sonata's consultants come together with the customer representatives to study the current MOSS environment, governance processes & business goals for the MOSS solution. On the basis of this study, we help define the future state for your MOSS implementation and demonstrate the key benefits of the new solution through a proof-of-concept (POC).

These services are designed to bring following benefits to the customers :

	Ease of Engagment : Offering a flexible engagement model and set of comprehensive services so you can concentrate on core activities of your business.
	Reduced TCO : Leveraging Global delivery model and utilizing our reusable assets (SONNETS) saving cost and effort on development.
	Maximise Investment : Making the best out of your IT investment by implementing proper governance Consulting on Hardware and Software licensing optimization. Help you adopt best strategy by leveraging Software+Service architecture.

Key aspects of our services include :

	Employee awareness programs to aid adoption; end - user training.
	Definition of governance policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to address common pitfalls like site creation management, content lifecycle management, Information architecture and backup.
	Infrastructure plan based on the current level of content, expected growth, usage pattern analysis, security and disaster recovery requirements.
	Hybrid solution architecture integrating MOSS with other business application, thereby optimizing license costs.
	Proven, iterative design and development methodology that leverages Sonata's implementation accelerators (SONNETS) for collaboration, workflow and analytics.
	Management of the SharePoint environments covering deployment, monitoring and ensuring that service level agreements are met.
	Support services that take care of defects and enhancements to suit changing business needs, including L1, L2 and L3 support driven by SLAs.

SONNETS -- Some of our re-usable solution assets are :

SonnetPORTAL	:	A ready to deploy MOSS 2007 based portal solution which can help reduce deployment time by 20% to 40% with minimized risks.
SonnetWORFLOW	:	UI Wizard based solution which helps in easy and time saving configuration of workflows.
SonnetRECORDCENTER	:	Solution to archive all organizational content (Pages, documents / images and lists) as per the defined archival policies.
SonnetIDEAS	:	Solution to encourage social community building and collaboration using social media tools like Blogs, Wikis, Forums, etc.

Sonnets4Airlines

Today, airlines are struggling to maintain B2C, B2E & E2E connectivity and collaboration due to :

Increasingly demanding customers and shifting loyalties

Mobile workforce (pilots & crew) and remote employee population (sales & airport staff)

Limited sharing of information within / across groups / locations

Sonnets4Airlines provide secure shared online environment for collaboration and execution of routine business process leveraging the potential of MOSS 2007 with the following features :

Crew Portal -- A single portal to access all applications

HR self-service

Aircraft Maintenance Portal

Document management

Workflow Automation

Microsoft SharePoint provides workflow solutions for adopting automated business processes. The out of the box solution offers to implement workflows for basic and simple processes, and use pre - configured workflows.

These workflows need to be aligned with different industries and their respective processes, which either require some changes or totally new workflows to be developed.

Workflow Manager : Here Sonata's services and the workflow engine help you align your specific business processes into a workflow based system, cutting down processes cycle time by 25% - 30% . Sonata has a track record of working with industry leaders in various segments.

	Configurable workflow minimises or eliminates development
	Wizard driven workflow configuration
	Supports features rules, escalations, custom e-mail alerts, delegation, etc.
	Integrates with Sharepoint document and form libraries.

Migration Services

Sonata offers migration services to our customers who are on a platform which does not fulfill their needs like content management, business process automation, search etc. Legacy applications also cause troubles due to technical complexities and skill scarcity. MOSS 2007 is a well integrated platform to address these problems.

Migration to MOSS 2007

Our services help you migrate from Lotus Notes, Sharepoint 2003, MS ECM 2003 and other legacy systems to MOSS 2007 much faster and with lower risks. MOSS 2007 offers a faster - to - adopt platform which is constantly supported and has a clear roadmap. It provides a scalable solution that integrates with other LOB applications. MOSS binds well with existing infrastructure like MS Office, MS Exchnage/Outlook, etc.

Tool based approach :

Third party tool helps in easy and cost saving transformation.

Engagement Lifecycle :

Based on the best practices and lessons learnt from past projects, we come out with an easy adoption approach for MOSS based services. The following figure depicts a phase based approach which offers our customers the flexibility to engage in all or selected phases as per the requirement. This fits into a small project to a large project based requirement.