Microsoft SharePoint Integration

We recognize the demand for organizations to optimize teamwork and productivity. Our thirty years of experience serving government clients helps us appreciate the challenges that an ever-changing IT landscape brings to an organization. Our goal is to deliver a complete customized solution that not only maximizes your existing systems, but also protects your IT investment. Tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers our integration provides a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.

Microsoft SharePoint offers your organization the ability to:

Access all your office applications and information with a single log-in
Collaborate on documents, research, projects and policy in real-time
Organize and manage your documents from draft creation through final approval, including versioning control of the document
Subscribe to “Alerts” to receive immediate information about changes to documents and events in which you have an interest
Locate any office document easily with a simple Web-like search
Quickly locate historical archived documents
Collect real-time data on constituent or client opinions and issues
Keep abreast of events through system subscriptions to web sites

We understand the need for a quick turn around on any solution an office wishes to implement. We also know that every office is different in its learning and approach to the SharePoint solution. In this regard, iConstituent will draw from its “Best Practices Knowledge Base” derived from our 10 years of experience in delivering SharePoint implementations to assist in developing a structure that fulfills the needs and requirements of a particular office.

We deliver a comprehensive package that includes many out-of-the-box SharePoint features and functions, custom developed programmed sites, and web elements drawn from our extensive “Best Practices Knowledge Base.” Offices and Committees receive a SharePoint solution that is tailored to their office procedures and legislative needs.

Do any of these sound familiar?

"Which of these emails has the latest version of the document?"
With SharePoint’s automatic document versioning, you never need to wonder if you are working on the most recent draft. When you are finished, SharePoint guides you through a simple check-in process, ensuring your changes are preserved for the next person.

“I wish I could review all the contacts and meetings this VIP has had with our office before my appointment tomorrow!”
No problem. With your custom Portal solution you have a complete picture of all contact history at your fingertips. Compiling a detailed list of all phone calls, field reports, meeting notes, funding requests, and correspondence is a few keystrokes away.

“This is a sensitive document; we need to be careful who reads it before it’s approved.”
Easy collaboration does not have to jeopardize the security of your office. With SharePoint, you have the ability to restrict permissions to specific documents, folders, and SharePoint sites for user-defined groups and individuals. Users can find and share data, with the added assurance that data will not be lost.

“Our satellite office just called. They are looking for a position statement.”
By utilizing the shared workspaces and the shared library in the Portal, team-related documents are always available to those who need them. Since documents are never lost or misplaced, even the oldest documents can be protected for the historical purposes.

“Let me know as soon as the team has completed that part of the project.”
With your MS SharePoint Portal solution , your ability to manage a project or shared document is taken to a new level. You can subscribe to custom reports that are delivered on your schedule. Additionally, you can create team sites where ideas, information, communication and documents are shared and captured. Each team member can subscribe to “alerts” to receive immediate information about changes in documents and events in which they have an interest or responsibility.

iConstituent SharePoint Consulting Services include:

Up to 5 out-of-the-box standard SharePoint sites (Home/News/Sites/Search) with unlimited out-of-the-box standard web parts (installed with SharePoint Portal Server software) and customization of up to 15 of the out-of-the-box standard web parts, including add/modify columns, create views, create columns, groupings, sorts, security, etc.
Creation and customization of up to 2 additional SharePoint sites and/or sub-sites with 8 customized web parts
Customization of Windows SharePoint Schedule site with up to 8 customized standard web parts and unlimited out-of-the-box standard web parts to each site
Creation of up to 2 Content Sources, 2 Search Scopes, and 2 Audiences

During our initial meetings with clients, we assist them in navigating through the numerous options available to them in terms of selecting relevant sites and web parts that reflect or enhance their office processes. We also identify additional site and web part customizations to their SharePoint portal that benefit the office and create a tailored SharePoint solution. We understand the need to continually develop and update our Knowledge Base web parts and site ideas to reflect the needs of our clients, particularly in relation to the ever-changing technological landscape. This allows us to provide our clients with a library of custom programmed Congressional-specific solutions to choose from that further enhance their SharePoint implementations. We can offer all of these services and solutions because we have over 10 years experience as the leading provider of SharePoint implementations on the Hill today. Contact us at dcsales@iconstituent.com to learn more.