3-Day Engagement Description
On-Site Engagement Details

Cost $4,200

Description

A 3-day Architectural Design Session (ADS) starts with information gathering and understanding the business challenges; it then introduces you to Office SharePoint Server 2007  technologies, solutions, and concepts, and explains how the technologies can meet those business challenges.  During this engagement, you will learn about the Office SharePoint Server 2007 roadmap and learn about how best to deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in your environment.

Activity

         An initial kick-off session with key resources from the your company and Project Solutions Group

         Strategy Briefing Session - this is similar to the 1-day engagement and has the objective to enable Project Solutions Groups to understand your environment, deployment blockers, and business drivers, including some specific scenarios, as follows:

o    Specific business challenges (i.e. process automation)

o    Specific IT challenges (i.e. security, administration, capacity)

o    Deployment issues

         Architectural Design Session - introduces you to the technologies and processes that are necessary to deliver a successful deployment project or engagement.  The next two days will be an interactive session that includes the following:

o    Demonstration of the high-level capability of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to resolve issues

o    Development  of a high-level roadmap for successful deployment planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007

o    High level discussions of other topics, for example, designing architecture for the technical aspects of deployment such as Active Directory integration, security, Internet, extranet, intranet topologies, line-of-business (LOB) application integration, and infrastructure designs

Deliverables

         SDPS Deployment Plan - This document is a comprehensive summary of the information that is uncovered during the SBS and 3-day ADS, including an actionable deployment plan.  It lists your environment specifics, enumerates identified deployment challenges, including skills, processes, and technologies. You can use this document to engage internal IT teams, partners, and vendors in deployment planning discussions and proposal generation. 
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