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MOSS 2010 as a Project Management tool for Enterprise System Upgrade
April 21, 2011 | 
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Upgrading an enterprise system is a huge risk that involves a variety of stakeholders. Downtime must be minimized, and should work with least amount of functional disruption possible. The mission-critical nature of enterprise systems and its interactions with other high caliber systems necessitates the use of an effective project management system to manage timelines and resources, and mitigate risks as much as possible.
Successful upgrades need effective collaboration and communication among all the stakeholders. The project management system should provide all stakeholders access to documentation, schedules, and plans. Everyone must understand the overall status of the project as well as the status on specific project components, and these status updates should be accessible from anywhere.
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2010 is an ideal option as it fosters collaboration among stakeholders from anywhere. Other features of MOSS 2010 are:
Posted in Enterprise software, SharePoint | 
Tags: Enterprise IT Ecosystem, Enterprise System Upgrade, MOSS 2010, Sharepoint Collaboration, Sharepoint Project Management | 
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Encourage collaboration and community with MOSS 2010
Imagine a company of 200 people where the majority work as consultants travelling to customer locations. This company is a Microsoft shop where consultants collaborate with one another to create SOWs and respond to RFPs. The current way of collaboration is through emails for group review, which results in delayed responses and multiple versions, which impedes progress.
To improve communication, the company sought a solution to collaborate with and respond to customers faster and at lower deployment costs. Recommended steps to follow include:
- Upgrade their system to Office 2010 and deploy MOSS 2010, along with upgrading the OCS Server R2 to Lync Server 2010. This will provide a more comprehensive communication solution with full service Unified Communications (UC) capabilities.
- Carry out deployment by providing an internal file share of Office 2010 for consultants to install at their own convenience. This will reduce both downtime and deployment time considerably.
Posted in SharePoint | Tags: MOSS 2010, Ms Lync 2010, OCS R2, Outlook Social Connector, Sharepoint Collaboration, Sharepoint Community | Comments Closed