SharePoint Consultants: Consulting on Portal Design; Extranets

Miles Consulting Corp's is a leading SharePoint Consulting Firm with deep experience in helping businesses quickly leverage SharePoint to easily create sites, portals, and extranets to share critical business information. MCC's SharePoint consultants can guide you to the selection of the appropriate SharePoint technology for your organization: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).  Both SharePoint solutions offer better document management, easy-to-use portals, data transparency, automated workflow processes, improved communications, and a high degree of data security.


Our SharePoint Experts work exclusively on SharePoint Consulting engagements and have their own site.  As a leading SharePoint Consulting Firm, we offer the following services:

• style sheets
• templates
• themes
• site definitions
• portal area definitions

SharePoint Server Farm Architecture Consulting
Expanding your SharePoint installation to a server farm can be a daunting task. Making sure your portal is available and responsive to local and remote users should be a primary concern to any organization. Take advantage of our SharePoint Architects' experience in this area and avoid the many pitfalls in this type of project.

Taxonomy Development and Consulting
For many organizations, one of the most difficult tasks on a SharePoint project is to design a taxonomy strategy that addresses portal/site organization and navigation as well as an overall information architecture that specifies how content will be categorized, classified and tagged. One of the primary reasons this is difficult for many organizations is that there is no "cookbook" approach to this task that really works.

Instead, the best way to develop a taxonomy strategy and design is to pair knowledge of an organizations content with knowledge of the functionality and capabilities of the software that will be used to develop the portal/sites. Our SharePoint consultants can help you through this process by providing expertise we have gained from working on numerous design engagements as well as our deep knowledge of the taxonomy-enabling features of SharePoint.

Custom Web Part Development
MCC's SharePoint Developers can provide you with custom web parts, administrative tools and help you with other development projects. We have a team of outstanding .NET developers who develop our commercially available SharePoint add-ins that are also available to work with you to meet the specific requirements of your organization. 

Infopath Forms Development
Our Infopath Consultants can hep you to improve and automate your business processes to common business forms like timesheets, expense reports, and claim forms. You can then access and fill out these secure standardized forms using a browser on your PC, laptop, or handheld device. 

Backing up SharePoint Server with DPM 2010
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• Content Management – Make information accessible, traceable, controlled, and easy to use for individual workers.
• Communication– Integrate electronic communications such as email, instant messaging, and voicemail in a workflow that is tied to specific job functions.
• Search– Enable workers to find the information they need in real-time and eliminate the need to re-create resources that already exist.
• Workflow– Automate processes that accelerate the completion of tasks, and provide selective access to information and resources needed to complete tasks.
• Calendaring and Scheduling – Eliminate the back-and-forth process of manually identifying participants and seeking schedule approval of resources.

• The Sarbanes-Oxley Act which defines records retention and corporate governance
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which defines behaviors for healthcare providers
• The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in the United States and the Data Protection Actin the United Kingdom which demands control of personal information

• Flexible, easy-to-configure security features – Includes global administration of security permissions, as well as worker’s ability to share personal documents and resources on a restricted-access basis.
• Portals –A single platform with built-in security to integrate systems, applications, resources, and workflows according to logical work descriptions, location of workers, and group permissions.
• Integration – Make applications and information resources accessible and secure across system boundaries and computing platforms. Allow workers to access and share information according to work processes rather than code or file type.

• Document business and technical requirements
• Lower potential costs and confusion
• Prioritize stakeholder support
• Manage risk
• Set expectations
• Facilitate communication and control.

Miles Consulting Corp is a leading Microsoft SharePoint consulting firm with staff in the Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Texas and New York. Let MCC help you maximize your investment in SharePoint Server for your business.