Organisations in the retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical and public sector in Ireland are working with the iSite SharePoint team to:

• Streamline and automate business processes
• Integrate and manage different sources of information
• Connect office and field based staff to business critical information and applications
• Track and increase process efficiency - such as debt management
• Enable search functionality to reduce time spent looking for documents

SharePoint is a powerful collaborating platform that has a proven ability to impact on organisational productivity. It can be described as an enterprise information portal, which can be configured to run Intranet and Internet sites.

"Senior managers who are charged with increasing the efficiency of their technology infrastructure, developing new applications, streamlining process, reducing information overload, and automating forms and workflows will be interested in adopting SharePoint with the iSite team"

Colin Cassidy
Partner Strategy & Programmes Manager, Microsoft Ireland

When to consider SharePoint?

SharePoint Server (or MOSS - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) offers a suite of capabilities covering six key areas:

1. Collaboration: Allow teams to collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information
2. Portals: Facilitates sharing of information with others and personalisation of content of based on user's profile.
3. Enterprise search: Provides the ability to search critical content across a wide range of sites, document libraries, files shares, Microsoft Exchange public folders, and Lotus Notes Databases
4. Enterprise Content Management: Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
5. Business Processes: Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
6. Business Intelligence: Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.
   

iSite SharePoint Case Study - Patient Management System

The Problem:

• Numerous different processes and systems for managing patient data.
• Major productivity issues around having to capture data from paper forms and excel spreadsheets.
• Difficult to support even basic reporting needs
• A legacy application existed which forced the user to read through numerous call logs to retrieve patient information

The Solution: iSite implemented a SharePoint application to support all business processes around patient communication.

Business Value: The application provided immediate business value in eliminating the duplication of data, management of critical Patient funding/registration data and the output of key management reports.


Deploying Sharepoint:  Key Points

• Building Business Applications within SharePoint takes anywhere from 4-6 weeks.
• The effort for building robust applications in SharePoint is at least 50% less than the normal business application development process
• SharePoint uses one platform for management, development and maintenance so reducing the total cost of ownership for business applications
• It is a proven and scalable platform and can support a range of applications

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