Deltascheme » Enterprise Content Management

SharePoint Consultancy

Clive Walker — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:01:11 +0000

Experience

We have over 14 years of experience in successfully implementing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Systems.

Expertise

We focus exclusively on delivering solutions using Microsoft SharePoint and have developed a very high level of expertise.

References

We have an impressive number of references across many industry sectors.

Microsoft Gold Competency

We were the first Microsoft Partner in the UK, and one of the first in the World to earn the new Microsoft Gold Competency for Content Management. This competency is gained in recognition of our skills and proven competency in delivering ECM solutions in SharePoint.

Reliability

Other customers have chosen Deltascheme for SharePoint consultancy because of our breadth of experience, track record, financial stability, quality certifications and because we are often able to provide a complete solution based on standard SharePoint functionality.

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Whitepaper “ Business Value of SharePoint for ECM”

Clive Walker — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:47:06 +0000

The Business Value of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 – Enterprise Content Management.

We strongly recommend this paper to those considering implementing an ECM system in their organisation. It details the challenges faced when implementing an ECM system and how the new release of SharePoint 2010 tackles these issues.

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Executive Summary

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become a key business priority for most organizations. The amount of business information created and shared is increasing in size and speed every day, government compliance requirements are becoming more stringent, and key business tasks require accurate and fast access to records, documents, and other information. Without content management, information becomes chaos “ unmanaged, not searchable, and processes rely more on employee institutional memory than technology”. Additionally, users waste time looking for or recreating documents and information, and businesses may pay penalties for documents and information that are accidentally lost or released publicly.

Most business executives recognize the need for a robust ECM solution, but most traditional ECM offerings only provide comprehensive, mission-critical content management designed for a small set of users (working with a team, department, or content type) and focus on security and compliance over usability and collaboration. Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft ® SharePoint ® Server 2010 delivers both a high quality solution that stimulates and delivers user participation, and the tools for highly secure, well-managed content.

SharePoint Server 2010 enables companies to democratize content management and improve organizations by providing content management to all employees and compliance across all documents. This leads to better, faster, and more secure processes that can be managed through a familiar environment, integrated into business collaboration infrastructure, and built on a trusted and extensible platform. With ECM in SharePoint Server, you can:

Drive participation – Avoid chaos and end-user resistance
Ensure Compliance – Avoid risk by controlling unmanaged content, including Social content
Save Costs – Avoid high costs of point solutions, especially where not needed.

Download the white paper here

Deltascheme

Deltascheme is a leading provider of business and technical consultancy for Electronic Content Management and Business Process Management solutions based on Microsoft technologies.

If you are implementing SharePoint 2010 contact us here.

Intranets & Extranets

Clive Walker — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:46:35 +0000

What is an Intranet for?

Increasingly, intranets are being used to deliver tools and applications, (e.g. collaboration to facilitate working in groups and teleconferencing or sophisticated corporate directories, sales and customer relationship management tools, project management etc.) to advance productivity. Intranets are also being used as corporate culture-change platforms (e.g. large numbers of employees discussing key issues in an intranet forum application could lead to new ideas in management, productivity, quality, and other corporate issues).

When part of an intranet is made accessible to customers and others outside the business, that part becomes part of an extranet. Businesses can send private messages through the public network, using special encryption/decryption and other security safeguards to connect one part of their intranet to another.

Why Deltascheme for your Intranet & Extranet?

Deltascheme has unparalleled experience providing enterprise content management solutions which enables organisations to make use of their structured and unstructured information. Intranet content will be a subset of this content. Not only will users have a good looking site, but they will also get acccess to relevant and appropriate information.
It does not have to be blue! Using our technical expertise and design specialists,we will work with you to customise and rebrand SharePoint to fit your corporate brand.
We can integrate line of business applications into your Intranet and surface KPIs from reports into a useful dashboard.
We can automate common processes such as leave requests, expense approvals etc

Why use SharePoint for your Intranet and Extranet?

Using Microsoft SharePoint, we can facilitate on a single platform all of the following…

Collaboration - by integrating Workspaces, Tasks, Forums, Surveys, Blogs, RSS and wikis.
Portals – Providing a one stop site for everything enterprise related.
Enterprise Search - search not only the contents of SharePoint sites, but also line of business applications.
Web and Enterprise Content Management – manage the structured and unstructured data within the organisation and take control.
Forms Driven Business Process – start driving forms driven process, not only from within the office but also from portable wireless devices.
Business Intelligence – surface line of business application and data repository indicators through web-based dashboards.

Call and speak to one of our Team to see how we can help.

Deltascheme is a leading provider of business and technical consultancy for Electronic Content Management and Business Process Management solutions based on Microsoft Technologies

Top 10 ECM Improvements in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 Public Beta

Clive Walker — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:05:32 +0000

The public beta of SharePoint 2010 will be released in November 2009.

For more resources have a look at the following links.

- SharePoint 2010 Website – to view SharePoint 2010 in action

- SharePoint 2010 forum- for SharePoint 2010 questions

- SharePoint 2010 PressPass- for the SPC 2009 keynote video, a Q&A with Jeff Teper, and more

- SharePoint 2010 Developer Center – for developer info

- http://www.mssharepointitpro.com – for IT Pro info

- http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint – for more SharePoint information

If you are looking to implement SharePoint 2010, why not register for our seminar on the 21 January2010 at the Microsoft offices in London. Deltascheme is a leading provider of business and technical consultancy for Electronic Document Management (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions based on Microsoft Technologies.

Enterprise 2.0 vs. ECM

Clive Walker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:39:58 +0000

It is also defined by AIIM as a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise.

Specific social software tools which programmers have adapted for enterprise use include:

hypertext and unstructured search tools
wikis
weblogs for storytelling
enterprise social bookmarking for tagging and building organizational folksonomies
RSS for signalling
collaborative planning software for peer-based project planning and management
ideas banks for ideation (idea generation)
social networking tools
mashups for visualization
prediction markets for forecasting and identifying risks.

Social networking capabilities can help organizations capture unstructured tacit knowledge. The challenge then becomes how to distill meaningful, re-usable knowledge from other content also captured in tools such as blogs, online communities, and wikis. This presents a challenge for Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

According to AIIM research shows that 54% of organisations consider Enterprise 2.0 to be important to their organisation’s overall business goals and success. 40% want to see it as part of their ECM suite, and 45% find it useful that an ECM suite offers a full range of Enterprise 2.0 capabilities. 25% of organisations are currently implementing Enterprise 2.0 functionality, and we are seeing a push for Enterprise and Web 2.0 within the US government.

Enterprise 2.0 is about being open and social, while Enterprise Content Management is usually about control. Many organisations have both requirements; they want free-form collaboration while ensuring regulatory compliance and control. This means that you need to plan for both to support your organisation moving forward.

To learn how you can improve collaboration without losing control, consider signing up to one of the AIIM ECM certification programs. Deltascheme can assist you by advising on appropriate technologies and turning requirements into real solutions.

Deltascheme is a specialist systems integrator and solutions provider delivering ECM and BPM solutions. We use Microsoft SharePoint as our primary application platform and have expertise delivering a broad range of integrated solutions such as EDRM, Case Management, Extranets, Intranets, CRM, Business Intelligence and data migration projects. Based in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Deltascheme has 23 years experience of software engineering.

Deltascheme ISO9001 :2008 Certified

Clive Walker — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:30:28 +0000

Deltascheme is one of the very first companies in the ECM market place to be ISO 9001:2008 certified. ISO 9001:2008 is a comprehensive management system standard and is maintained by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization.

ISO 9001:2008 provides a number of requirements which an organization needs to fulfill to achieve customer satisfaction through consistent products and services which meet customer expectations. It includes a requirement for continual (i.e. planned) improvement of the Quality Management System.

Some of the requirements in ISO 9001:2008 include:

A set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business
Monitoring processes to ensure they are effective
Keeping adequate records
Checking output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary
Regularly reviewing individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness
Facilitating continual improvement

Paul Turnbull, Managing Director of Deltascheme said,

“We are committed to quality and this is embedded in our culture and all that we do. The Company has developed a Quality Management System (QMS), which focuses on ensuring the right people with the right skills and training are engaged in each and every project. Our main objective is to provide solutions and services that continue to exceed customer satisfaction and strengthen customer relationships.”