"We've been using SharePoint for a number of years, and the implementation has been successful," said Tom Ritter, director of IT for The Newark Group, "But, with a small IT staff, we found ourselves struggling on the administrative side." One example of the problems he was facing was the lack of a global view of a person's access to the system.
"Basically, we found ourselves hunting and pecking to access sites and sub-sites to find the information we needed." Read more...
Administering the overall SharePoint system, and managing access permissions for such a large number of employees, posed a formidable challenge to High Point Regional’s IT staff.
“We realized that we weren’t going to get a whole bunch of full-time employees to monitor all our users comings and goings,” said Stephen Bodenhamer, Applications Systems Analyst. “So we knew that we were going to need a solution that would help us with SharePoint management. That led us to Axceler’s ControlPoint." Read more...
In a busy government bureau in one large state, over 2,000 employees rely on SharePoint for collaboration and for staying up to date with official policy. Information is continually changing as policies are updated and new legislation is passed. SharePoint adoption was high and growing, but the very success of the implementation was placing additional burdens on an IT staff that was already over-worked. Read more...
Since its founding more than 100 years ago, Hogan & Hartson has grown into a major international law firm, with over 1,100 lawyers practicing in 27 offices around the globe. Hogan & Hartson uses SharePoint as a platform for sharing information, coordinating work, and delivering timely, critical data to its lawyers and staff around the world.
Given Hogan & Hartson's global presence, Ajay Wanchoo, Director of Solutions Architecture and Development at Hogan, faces the challenge of gaining a single point of visibility and control for the SharePoint environment. "I need a strong reporting capability in order to see what is going on at any point in time, and to assess trends over time," Wanchoo says. Read more...
With over 3 million documents, John Finch faced the challenge of supporting a system essential to the day to day work of his company's employees. To help them with their administrative tasks, Steelcase chose Axceler's ControlPoint. Read more...
Lender Processing Services (LPS) provides mortgage processing services to the nation's largest banks and other mortgage lenders. The task of managing Lender Processing Services' three SharePoint farms falls to John Lokietek, Web Systems Administrator.
Among the challenges Lokietek faced were storage management, security, and identifying groups with one-off SharePoint implementations, some still using SharePoint 2003. Read more...
With annual revenues well over $20 billion, Tech Data is the world's largest distributor of hardware and software products. So it's easily to understand that project management is critical to Tech Data – and they're one of main uses to which the company puts SharePoint.
"We've gotten tremendous productivity out of SharePoint," Erik Toth, enterprise architect, said. "For our end-users, it's a dream. But for those of us on the administration side of SharePoint, things aren't always so dreamy." Read more...
G4S Integrated Services implemented SharePoint in order to ensure that its hundreds of business professionals had access to a collaborative environment in which they could work with company documents, including contract and proposal templates and core information, that were current, approved, and consistent.
With an immediate goal of expediting their sales process and winning new business, G4S Integrated Services faced the challenge of getting employees used to one way of getting things done to adopt SharePoint. Read more...