Effective WCM solutions can be very complex to develop, and if approached the wrong way—even with experienced developers—they tend to exceed their budget or struggle to meet expected standards of quality or manageability. This is where the established methodology, deep experience, and best practices of Microsoft Services architects and consultants show their value.
Committed to empowering your company to meet its business goals through the vast potential of the SharePoint 2010 platform, the Microsoft Services team uses its broad experience with numerous clients, including mission-critical engagements, to envision, plan, and architect an Internet presence solution in alignment with your company needs. Plus, the ability of Microsoft Services to collaborate with Microsoft product groups permits access to deeper “from the source” knowledge of Microsoft products and technologies to help improve your solution.
A modern WCM system has to meet many needs across a business but the number one goal has always be to empower the people who own and create content to easily publish content. With a renewed focus on web analytics, search engine optimization, campaign management and personalization, many businesses and vendors have lost sight of the end user. By empowering content creators, you can rapidly remove the friction between the business and IT ensuring that you can drive content to the right audience in a timely manner. To empower the end user, you need to provide an intuitive user experience that helps employees author and publish content effectively without needing specialized technical skill.
- Taking authoring to the next level
- Quick access to the tools and actions you use most often
- New and improved Rich Text Editor
- Easy to add rich media
- Support for a wider range of web browsers
- Making it easier to build richer sites
- Rich media integration
- Dynamic content
- Managed Metadata tagging
- Well-formed mark-up
- Community building tools
- Richer publishing control and greater insight
- Control over what authors can do
- Orchestrate publishing across different parallel sites
- Deploying content from authoring/staging environment to the live environment
- Publishing workflows
- Web Analytics
- Server Health Monitoring
- Scalable platform to power your site
- Large Pages Library and the Content Organizer
- Optimization of the Content Query Web Part
- Support for streaming rich media
Workflows and Business Process Automation Instead of storing files in network or e-mail folders, you gradually move them to SharePoint libraries for central management. Instead of routing documents in e-mail, you send links so that all users see the same and latest copy of the file in a shared library. Instead of attaching a spreadsheet of tables in e-mail, you use a list and list views to easily share and update the same data. Instead of manually performing routine business processes, you are using workflows to streamline regular tasks. Gradually, you are moving key project, content, and process information from individual e-mail accounts, personal computers, and network drives to SharePoint 2010 so that your teams and business can collaborate much more effectively.