Improve Collaboration with NaviSite’s Hosted and Enterprise SharePoint
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is a premier collaboration tool that provides a single workspace for teams to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions within the organization and over the extranet. While SharePoint increases business efficiency and productivity, it requires expertise to manage and run the SharePoint environment smoothly.
NaviSite hosts Microsoft SharePoint in shared or dedicated hosting environments, depending on your needs, to create a high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective collaboration solution for your organization. Our Hosted Microsoft SharePoint service provides comprehensive 24x7 hosting, monitoring, and runtime management for your SharePoint environment.
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a trusted hosting expert, we offer access to full-featured, easy-to-use SharePoint solutions in an enterprise-class hosted environment. Our hosted SharePoint solutions provide a variety of communication features including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards, the ability to easily author and manage documents with various security features, and the ability to easily implement various creative forums, such as blogs and wikis. We also offer enhanced support for working offline with synchronization through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
Using NaviSite as your trusted Hosted Microsoft SharePoint provider offers a number of significant benefits over hosting your Microsoft SharePoint in-house.
- Reduced total cost of ownership: The upfront costs and hassle of creating and maintaining Microsoft SharePoint can be prohibitive. With NaviSite, there are no upfront costs or hassle; we take care of everything. You just pay a single, fixed rate.
- Improved business alignment: NaviSite has the expertise required to make sure that your Hosted Microsoft SharePoint is configured with the features and functionality that you need for your unique business, so that your internal collaboration is as smooth and efficient as possible.
- Predictable expense management: NaviSite charges a single, predictable monthly fee, which can be budgeted for long in advance. By using NaviSite as your Hosted Microsoft SharePoint provider, you eliminate the inevitable and unpredictable costs of repairing or upgrading an in-house SharePoint server.
- Security, reliability and scalability: NaviSite has 15 state of the art data centers in the US and UK, including 4 SAS 70 Type II compliant data centers, to house your Microsoft SharePoint services in, meaning you have the security, reliability and scalability of a Fortune 100 equivalent IT infrastructure.
- Increased speed of deployment: If you don’t have collaboration tools in place already, it’s important to get them up and running as fast as possible. Because NaviSite has a best in class IT infrastructure already in place and over a decade of experience, using us as your service provider means that your customized Microsoft SharePoint solution will be deployed much faster than you could by hosting in-house.
- Flexibility to expand as needed: Making changes to your Microsoft SharePoint is as easy as making a phone call when you host with NaviSite. You’ll talk to a professional SharePoint manager, who will walk you through all of the available features that you’re not utilizing, and which ones will help you as your organization grows.
- Improved availability and productivity: NaviSite employs experts who do nothing but host and manage your Microsoft SharePoint, meaning your collaboration tools are always available, and are working at peak efficiency, so your employees never have to worry about not being able to share information.
Standard Features for Hosted SharePoint
Our Hosted Microsoft SharePoint solutions include a variety of standard features to help you get the most advantage from your -mail and collaboration tools.
- A top-level SharePoint site and up to 100 subsites with all standard Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 web client functionality
- A customizable URL prefix
- Server software and hardware for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services hosting, located in a secure data center facility
- Single sign-on with Hosted Microsoft Exchange
- Full compatibility with Microsoft Office Applications
- Ability to dynamically add storage and users as needed to meet business requirements
- Simple user interface for site customization by super-users
- Web portal for anytime/anywhere access
- Security, including SSL for secure data transfer and firewall protection
- 24x7 Problem Resolution Management (PRM) to ensure performance and availability
In addition to our Hosted SharePoint offering described above, we also offer Enterprise SharePoint solutions, which are fully dedicated SharePoint server farm solutions designed to meet your specific business requirements. The common elements and most popular options and configurations include:
- Support for both Windows SharePoint Services and/or Microsoft Office SharePoint Services depending on requirements
- SharePoint farms designed to meet needs for scalability and availability, ranging from single-server solutions up to highly-available, multi-server redundant environments
- Flexible authentication and security configurations, including integration with existing internal Active Directory
- 24x7 monitoring and management with immediate response to any server farm issues, maximizing availability of the solution
- Customer is freed from the care and feeding of the underlying SharePoint server farm and database and can concentrate on customizing and enhancing the SharePoint application for maximum collaborative value
- NaviSite offers optional consulting and development services to assist our customers in the design and development of their SharePoint application solutions (See “Add-ons” tab for more information)
We also offer a number of optional features with our Microsoft SharePoint Solutions that can be added for those who need increased services, for an additional monthly fee.
- Site customization in terms of portal design, master page templates, content, and branding
- Definition and configuration of SharePoint functions, including: Document Center, Records Management Center, MySites, Records Management Policies, Security
- Workflow Development
- Definition and configuration of social networking components
- Extended support for application level issues
- Custom reporting
