Integrating SharePoint and Enterprise Systems

SharePoint is an enterprise platform meant to work effectively with other applications and systems. Given this, extending intranets, extranets and workflows to leverage data from third party systems is common in organizations with more advanced and mature SharePoint platforms. Our SharePoint and Integration teams understand how best to connect information from external applications and systems and expose it to SharePoint in a way that is consistent with an overall technology strategy.

During an engagement, we will typically review your SharePoint environment in the context of your overall enterprise strategy and look for ways that data stored in other systems can provide additional value in your SharePoint business solution. We will inventory existing applications and systems, current integration points and methods, application and system lifecycles, data quality and data flows. This is done within the context of project objectives and requirements.

Social Media Integration

Our experienced development and creative staff can help demonstrate best practices for incorporating Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or other popular social media outlets into your SharePoint website.

Custom Development with SharePoint

SharePoint is a development platform as much as it is an application platform. While we recommend minimizing custom development, when done correctly it can be an effective way to improve workflows, integrate with or extend portals and build business solutions.

Our development teams focus on best practices for SharePoint development to reduce long-term maintenance and support requirements. Our development teams also follow our project methodology so the final deliverable meets business requirements and success metrics.

Workflow Development

SharePoint is a useful tool for building simple workflows. For more complex workflow needs, workflow capabilities can be extended through the use of add-ons like Nintex and K2. For the truly unique situation, custom code can be utilized to build workflow rules and scenarios that extend the capabilities of SharePoint.