Companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward. Strategies, organization, motivation, and leadership all set the stage for business success. But to see results, you must also give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities—because success ultimately comes down to your people. Microsoft calls a business that fosters a winning environment a “people-ready business”.
The best way to determine if your business is people-ready is to put the following questions to yourself and the people around you.
- Do you have fast access to the information you need to make an intelligent, informed decision every time you need to make one?
- Can you effectively work with groups around the world and exchange ideas as though you were all in the same room?
- Can you interact with customers, solve problems, and create loyalty and satisfaction with instant answers and up-to-the-minute information, all with a few mouse clicks?
- Are you able to work as efficiently and effectively within remote offices and on the road as you can from the home office?
Management and Security
- How confident are you that your collaboration environments have adequate content management enforcement congruent with company policy or compliance requirements? What has been done to mitigate security threats and vulnerabilities? How important would it be to have a single vendor for highly integrated security in your SharePoint environment?
- Are you able to balance the policies you require with the highest end-user experiences possible within your collaborative environments?
- How confident are you that your collaboration environments have the systems, processes, policies and people in place to manage and monitor compliance risks and security threats?
- Do you currently have application layer firewall protection that covers access control and data flow through your SharePoint Servers?
- Is your current firewall giving you authentication with native support for MS Active Directory policies?
Application Response and Network Performance
- Are your SharePoint applications taking a long time to open?
- Do you find yourself waiting a long time to download files and data?
- Is it difficult to locate and then effectively retrieve SharePoint data that may be distributed?
- Are there applications that run fine at the home office but run very slowly in remote branches?
- Do you worry about the level of data security in your branches as related to high application response times and the acceleration of these transactions?
- Are your network links heavily congested and able to support only a limited number of users?
- Are your international links the slowest in your network?
- Is there a need for your business critical applications to have higher adoption rates within remote branches?
- Would there be value in improving application response times by two or more times over your end user experience today?
Allin would like to offer you a complimentary Microsoft® SharePoint® Health Check (SHC) to help you assess how much your organization has implemented Microsoft Solutions to enable a people-ready business. One that enables people to connect with customers, answer questions, make sales, close deals and work together to make the thousands of small decisions that collectively add up to success.
The SharePoint® Health Check is specifically designed to give your organization’s current collaboration systems a health check, generate a roadmap for managing content, direct where overall information access and application response times improvements can improve end user experiences, aid in compliance with company policies, mitigate security risks, and offer prescriptive guidance. The SHC is designed for senior IT staff members and engineers in charge of support and management of their SharePoint environment; as well as business analysts responsible for business process optimization.
