Microsoft SharePoint platform has invited many software development companies in India and abroad to deploy its resources in a shared environment especially for document and content management. Indian software development companies are rising who work in collaboration on various SharePoint applications. SharePoint resources can be best utilized by highly qualified and experienced software developers and SharePoint professionals. They can be hired as employees on contract, as permanent staffs, or as virtual assistants. This global platform needs expertise in .Net development, SharePoint Foundation Server 2010, SharePoint 2010, Active Directory, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer.
SharePoint application services form a set of SharePoint migration, integration, training, customization, deployment, and development. These applications services also focus on post-implementation of SharePoint services, application design, and architecture. Other SharePoint services like optimization, audit, and others are the services that software development firms deploy for proper business management and profit maximization.
SharePoint deployments require huge team effort, coordination, and management. Strategy and governance plans need to be locked down for companies before going ahead with a SharePoint development. Like any other project SharePoint also involves risks for both business and IT people. As this software platform is multifunctional, choices are many. Utilized for document management, a workflow environment, content management, extranet, collaboration, and portal, SharePoint deployment could be different from the way software companies made use of it. The final focus of the deployment must be on the business case. People make use of SharePoint to manage Office documents. This is getting used to manage large files like satellite data, 15-MB PowerPoint files, and even huge and branched data sets. Various clients are performing business intelligence (BI) implementations in association with SharePoint technologies by deploying dashboards and portals. The purpose is to show BI or transactional data. Microsoft PerformancePoint, Microsoft PowerPivot, and SQL Server Reporting Services are also used in this process in conjunction with other BI environments like Oracle's Hyperion and IBM's Cognos. As for example, building applications on SharePoint, integrating it with particular ERP system, and then inserting the ERP data showcases exclusive deployment of SharePoint.
Moss 2007 to SharePoint 2010 migration makes upgrading to SharePoint 2010 by making the maximum of SharePoint 2007 performances. This migration is safer, provides more flexibility in result, cleaner, and offers more service availability. On the contrary, this upgrading is more expensive and needs more work to replicate each old farm customizations on the new farm of SharePoint 2010. You have the freedom to choose between two primary upgrade approaches during your upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. These are ‘database attach upgrade’ and ‘in-place upgrade.’ A database-attach upgrade helps you move all content to a new hardware or a new farm. It is also possible to join these two kinds of upgrade in hybrid approaches falling downtime in the process of an upgrade. You can make use of in-place upgrade for upgrading all Microsoft SharePoint sites on the same hardware.
