Our customers often describe the following challenges within the context of solution delivery:
We have some development skills in-house but no experience in deploying enterprise SharePoint solutions
Our IT team is familiar with earlier versions of SharePoint but unsure of how changes in the latest version have affected best practices and recommended approaches
We have a great team of developers but they cannot meet the deadlines for our SharePoint project due to existing project commitments
Our IT team is struggling to engage the business in order to understand requirements
Our business analysts do not have a deep enough understanding of SharePoint to translate business requirements into a solution we are confident will be successful
We have previously tried to do this internally and failed.
When the objectives of a SharePoint solution are being driven by a wider business strategy, it is critical to ensure that those objectives are met successfully, on time and within budget. Unless they are confident that they have the skills, experience and dedicated resources, most of our customers choose not to take the risk or embarking on these projects alone.
Our customers work with us because we provide them with a flexible engagement model that helps them to mitigate the risks that concern them most. For some, the most critical risk is the lack of experience in engaging stakeholders to ensure that requirements are correctly defined and prioritised. For others, it is the lack of enterprise architecture expertise deemed necessary to ensure the infrastructure for mission critical applications will scale with demand and successfully fail-over in the event of a disaster. For many, the risks are more general and boil down to the financial and lost opportunity costs of not getting the solution right first time around.
In every scenario, we work with our customers to tailor an engagement approach that provides them with the right blend of skills and resources from the outset of the project, during delivery of the solution and throughout the lifetime of post-implementation support.
We would be very interested in understanding if there is a fit between your own requirements and the services that we provide. If you would like to arrange a call or a meeting to discuss, please contact sharepoint@imgroup.com