Allin’s
SharePoint Development Services develop, design, and implement 3-server configuration to enhance hospital’s existing MOSS solution to improve operations and site usability.
The Challenge
A teaching hospital in New England had implemented a limited scope SharePoint solution, utilizing the document sharing, workflows, and project oversight capabilities of the product. Their SharePoint environment was a standalone, single-server Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 solution to store their content, site, security, and configuration information. They wanted a SharePoint environment that was architected to initially support 5,000 faculty, students and staff, with the capability to scale up and scale out as necessary. They needed someone to develop, design, and implement three departmental sites as part of a proof of concept.
The Solution
The organization employed Allin to assist with design and build-out activities related to the MOSS 2007 collaborative environment, recommend architectural requirements to support existing and future functionality, as well as provide the information architecture and governance strategy necessary to allow the teaching hospital to maintain and grow the framework as additional departments, teams, and users are identified.
Allin implemented a 3-server configuration consisting of a front-end web server, an application server, and a database server. The Moss 2007 collaborative solution was initially deployed in a virtualized environment, and later a medium SharePoint server farm was created. The solution provides failover capability at the server level and physical hardware was installed to support the SQL database. A standardized team template was created to include security, discussion boards, KPIs, Dashboards, slide library, document library, and search capabilities.
The Benefits
The new system provides more functionality and increases site usability, serving all three departments effectively. The teaching hospital has a fully configured implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 where its employees can collaborate on the internal network, search for documents, utilize dashboards and Key Performance Indicators, and make use of Enterprise Content management features to publish documents or content onto their SharePoint Sites. Additionally, it is well positioned to scale implementation as usage of the system grows, as additional processes or memory can be added to improve performance.