Businesses face many challenges and issues, including employee communications, help desk support and forms management. All of these and more can be addressed with the use of a business portal called SharePoint.

Business portals are actually a type of website, normally restricted to internal use, which allows authorized utilization of data in an automated and controlled environment. Business portals can connect to and display nearly any type of data across disparate systems through the use of open database connectivity solutions. Such data might include office documents or XML sources, and can also be created by the portal through the use of forms.

Sovran supports the creation of business portals based on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Microsoft has two solutions for portal creation, operation and management. Based on your business needs, budget and return on investment criteria, Sovran can help you select and deploy the portal platform that is right for your company. Next, we can help with business analysis, creation and employee training to ensure that you will always get the most from your portal.

Sovran has created SharePoint sites that have:

• Published metrics that embrace management by objective
• Provided business portals to securely exchange information
• Enabled document collaboration and control
• Integrated with accounting systems to publish reports
• Published on-line surveys to gather employee and business partner input