Overview

What is Enterprise Portal & Collaboration?
Enterprise portal and collaboration solutions help transform the way people and organizations work together through familiar and pervasive workspaces, portals, and emerging social computing capabilities. By empowering people with a familiar set of tools, built on an enterprise-ready, scalable, and a manageable integrated infrastructure, portal and collaboration solutions from iLink can extend the value of your current IT investments while enabling business process innovation.

Portal and collaboration solutions from iLink can help speed market responsiveness and foster innovation by:

• Empowering teams through collaborative workspaces.
• Connecting organizations through portals.
• Enabling communities with social computing tools.
• Helping to reduce costs and complexity by using an integrated infrastructure, existing investments, and an extensible architectural platform.

If you are preparing to implement a portal and collaboration solution, iLink can help you with technology planning and architecture design to help ensure a correct and effective implementation.

SharePoint is most commonly used for:

Content management:

Integrated Document management, Records Management, Web Content Management with policies and workflows, Version Control, Role based access, Custom Content Type.

Collaboration:

Tasks/Calendars, Wikis, Blogs, Email Integration, Project Management (Tasks, Issues, Risks, Requirements, Bugs, Milestones, Gantt Chart, Discussion Forum, etc), Offline access.

Enterprise Search:

A unified and scalable search solution to index and search on files shares, websites, SharePoint sites, exchange, Notes database files, third party document repositories, people and expertise.

People and Personalization:

Personal Site (MySite), Social Networking, Privacy Control , Content Target and aggregation, Single Sign On (SSO).

Business processes and forms:

Browser based rich forms (powered by Infopath services), Multiple Form Views, LOB integration, Native web services support and custom schemas.

Business Intelligence:

Server based Excel services and data visualization, Report Center, Dashboards, KPI tracking, BI Web Parts, Business Data Catalogue (BDC).

Why SharePoint ?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 increases the productivity and collaboration throughout an organization by providing a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities and people-driven processes. Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the overall Microsoft collaboration vision and integrates with other collaborative products to offer a comprehensive infrastructure for working with others.

• Empower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces
• Connect Organizations Through Portals
• Bring business insight and data to the right people at the right time
• Foster community creation through well defined social computing tools
• Enhance ROI by Using an Integrated Infrastructure, Existing Investments, and an Extensible Platform

SharePoint Features Snapshot

Why iLink?

• iLink believes in your business and delivers proven ways to streamline your business and cut costs. We have helped large and small businesses achieve their maximum potential by providing customized technology solutions to meet their needs.
• iLink has proven expertise in delivering the enterprise portal and collaboration solution, and has partnered with Microsoft in various "award winning" projects since pre-beta days of SharePoint platform.
• Microsoft's Consulting Services Group has trained iLink to be "Services Ready" to deliver enterprise "portal and collaboration" solutions using SharePoint. This enables iLink to adopt MCS's processes and other resources, and thereby enhancing delivery capabilities and overall process maturity.

What makes iLink unique?

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Preferred Vendor and trained by MCS
  to be "Services Ready" for SharePoint Portal and Collaboration project delivery.
• Successfully delivered SharePoint solutions from federal
  government to large organizations.
• Onshore-Offshore model which reduces the time to implement in your
  business and provides cost effective solutions
• Focus on supporting the customer's business vision.
• ISO 9001 certified with focus on delivering quality through relationships
• On the forefront of possibilities with technology

iLink Promise:
iLink follows a very well defined process to implement SharePoint based Portal and Collaboration solutions. Focus is always on creating the business values for the customer through enhances return on existing as well as future investment.

iLink provides a detailed architecture, design, and plan to help ensure successful implementation.

The underlying philosophy behind iLink's process always is to:

• Design a robust, scalable, and secure solution.
• Mitigate implementation risks.
• Ensure maximum value and effectiveness for customer.

Testimonials and Case Studies

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iLink systems built an application to manage natural resource assets for several government agencies. Download pdf >>

Internet accessible file storage and retrieval system (similar to commercially available products such as www.xdrive.com ) with additional functionality Download pdf >>

MOSS integration with a messaging ISV application using an adaptor based approach. Download pdf >>

Testimonials

"iLink is a passionate company and they care"

Kal Raman

Senior Vice President,

Amazon.com

"Our iLink Solutions Team was able to deliver a 3 month project in just 45 days. Their work has brought thousands of leads in every market in America"

Mike Nelson

CTO,

Housevalues.com

"iLink was very responsive, had exceptional skills, and was willing to go the "extra mile" to produce great results."

Glenn Ishibashi,

Comsys

"iLink has done a fantastic thorough work and met very tight timelines. I will use their services again and I am one happy client."

Dan Lykken

VP Sales and Marketing,

Lumera

"I appreciate the work that iLink has done for us. They had a strong understanding of the overall business process. You should be pleased to have them on your team!"

Tim McFall

CEO,

HoloDeem

"iLink goes above and beyond, working around the clock, to make sure our site is up and running properly. They concern themselves with our overall functionality and have even alerted us when other systems/vendors have failed. They set the standard"

Delia McIntyre

Director, Marketing,Arthritis

Foundation

"Partnering with iLink Systems for our product development needs was one of the best business decisions I made. Their dedication, problem-tackling skills and strength in outsourced product development have helped me concentrate on my core competence, while iLink managed all my product development requirements!"

Brad Kleinfelder,

Plateau Software