Sharepoint Hosting Features

The Event Coordination application for Windows SharePoint Services is a central site for managing the entire event coordination process from event scoping, to organizing tasks and key dates, storing vendor information, posting event-related documents, inviting attendees, and evaluating the event.

A Board of Directors or Executive Board may use this application for Windows SharePoint Services to track tasks required by the Board, keep member information, manage a calendar of meetings and activities, host discussions about key issues, and store mission, financial, business, meeting minutes, and other information.

Finding the right people and knowing who is available to work on a client engagement is critical to the success of a professional services project. This application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to organize the resource request and approval process using simple-to-use InfoPath forms with built-in request and approval functionality. It also provides the ability to search for resources according to specific business areas or other criteria.

This application for Windows SharePoint Services features several tools to assist a help desk or customer service team in managing requests from customers and in improving team communication. It features an issue tracker, document library for posting helpful materials such as telephone scripts, technical how-to-guides, and knowledge base articles, and provides a forum for discussions between help desk staff.

This application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a platform for managing the Change Order process related to a particular professional services project and serves as a mechanism for tracking past changes along with their reasons and impacts.

The Public Official Activity and Issue Management application for Windows SharePoint Services allows any Public Official to keep track, all in one place, their key tasks, calendar, documents, links, and communication with constituents and special interest groups.

The IT Developer Team Site application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a central place for developers to access code snippets, track assignments and key dates, manage issues, store contact information, maintain a knowledge base, and communicate via discussions, surveys and announcements. The IT manager can easily adapt the document libraries, lists, issue tracker, and calendar to manage their own essential developer team information.

The Competitive Intelligence (CI) Dashboard application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to improve organization of CI-related materials, and communication about competitive issues among sales, public relations, marketing, product or service management, and executive personnel. It features automatic news feeds from MSNBC, placeholder for competitive graphics, a list for tracking competitive profiles and rankings, and discussions, surveys and document libraries related to CI.

The Publication Editorial Review application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a central place for editors, staff, and contributors to collaborate on the editing process for a publication such as a magazine, newspaper, or book. Using this application, it is easy to see the status of the various chapters or articles, who is writing or editing each one, and who has already reviewed them. Discussion threads may also be generated to facilitate discussion about the goals, content, or ideas for various documents. This tool would allow reviewers to track changes and document history, manage the review process, display the publication schedule, make assignments, and gather qualitative feedback about each section, article or chapter.

This application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to help small brokers and banks track documentation and progress on home, car and other loans. It provides a central site for accessing financial calculators, forms, announcements, team surveys, and discussions.

This application allows team members to create, upload, checkout, review, and modify documents. Team members can send documents to other team members for review, assign documents to other team member members and set alerts to receive notification when a document is modified. In addition to the standard SharePoint search functionality, this application allows the user to see additional views of the document library, including By Category, By Author and By Review Status.

This application for Windows SharePoint services is a central portal for managing the Request for Proposal (RFP) process from writing the RFP document to inviting prospects, managing the timeline and project plan, tracking RFP responses, and evaluating the proposals submitted.

The Meeting Management Site application for Windows SharePoint services is a central place for meeting facilitators to post announcements, schedule, attendee list, supporting materials, objectives, location information, and past meeting minutes. This gives attendees quick access to essential information about the meeting.

Managers of businesses with hourly employees use this application for Windows SharePoint Services for reviewing and approving timesheets, posting shift and schedule information, making announcements, storing key documents, and surveying their team for feedback on various issues. Employees use this site for submitting their timecard, viewing their assigned shifts, getting updates on job-related information, and requesting schedule changes using discussions to which other employees may reply.

This application provides an Announcement List to keep team members informed of important news, a Discussion Board to support and encourage discussions regarding topics of team interest, a central Task List to record and monitor team tasks and their progress, an Events List for scheduling and supporting team meetings, and a central Document Library for the storage and retrieval of important team reference documents.

This application for Windows SharePoint Services is to be used by human resource managers to manage the performance review process across an organization. It is a central site for organizing performance review forms, employee performance history, and related information.

Applied Innovations implements the latest in proactive automated server monitoring. In most cases if a service stops responding we are immediately notified and the monitoring server attempts to rectify the issue automatically. Usually the service is restarted and back in operation within moments.

Backups are scheduled of all servers on a daily basis via an automated backup system. In the event of a catastrophic disaster servers can be restored to a recent state in a timely fashion. Please note although Applied Innovations makes every attempt to maintain a timely and reliable backup of your webserver content it’s recommended you always maintain a working backup of your content as well.

The Internal network of Applied Innovations is certified Category 5 and 5e. We utilize the latest in cabling, switching and routing equipment from such vendors as Cisco, Compaq, F5 Networks, Netscreen and 3Com.

Technical support is available via phone during normal business hours. After hours support is available via email, and immediate 24x7 emergency support is available via a toll free voicemail/paging service with prompt callbacks.

Applied Innovations utilizes a state-of-the-art trouble ticket system that supports ticket submission via email and web. Tickets can then be tracked throughout the support process and feedback issued during each phase.

Applied Innovations maintains a comprehensive FAQ and KnowledgeBase system that allows clients to track down answers to the most frequently experienced support issues.