This section contains:

• Benefits of Capgemini’s SharePoint services
• Capgemini’s SharePoint approach
• Capgemini’s SharePoint capabilities
• Success stories

Benefits of Capgemini’s SharePoint services

We offer business services to help you get full benefit from SharePoint. The solution is best known for enabling collaboration and document management, but implemented and configured the right way, it can do much more. We can show you how to use SharePoint to provide:

• A common platform for developing productivity-enhancing applications
• Records management, together with an organisation-wide retention policy
• Case management
• Management of e-discovery and e-disclosure tasks
• A familiar and easy-to-use “front end” to other document management systems
• A means of embedding standard business processes and workflows
• An organisation-wide intranet

SharePoint 2010 adds rich Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) capability; for clients who want to get started straight away with an earlier version, we can provide a roadmap to enable an easy, incremental upgrade.

Capgemini’s SharePoint approach

We can show you how to realise SharePoint’s true value so that you quickly obtain tangible business benefits. SharePoint can make development more efficient, achieving:

• Reduced application development time and costs through component re-use
• Reduced support costs thanks to a common support model
• Reduced training and change management costs arising from a familiar user interface
• Better organisational agility as a result of standardisation

We can also help you use SharePoint to make collaboration more efficient. You’ll get:

• a convenient, easy-to-use means of sharing information and “workflowing” tasks around the organisation at all levels
• shared expectations and understanding about information structure across different parts of your organisation We’ll show you how SharePoint helps with compliance.

It can help you:

• retain records for the correct length of time, meeting local legal and regulatory requirements
• manage e-discovery and e-disclosure tasks without necessarily introducing specialist software

Capgemini’s SharePoint capabilities

We have a track record in helping clients make the most of SharePoint, whether they’re planning to invest in the product, are about to roll it out, upgrade it or enhance it, or simply want to get more out of an existing investment.

It is this lack of good information management that has a documented history of causing information over load, and has led to major compliance challenges with critical business processes heavily dependant on e-mail. To address these issues Capgemini has invested in a new global Business Information Management Service line. With trained SharePoint consultants both in the UK and dedicated delivery solution centres in India, Capgemini has significant capabilities to help clients manage information throughout the full content life cycle.

As a Gold Certified Partner with Microsoft, Capgemini is positioned to provide clients with the latest in Microsoft technology and knowledge. We have over 5000 Microsoft skilled professionals worldwide, and participate in joint programmes with Microsoft that give us an early view into the direction of products like SharePoint.

We can provide SharePoint as a secure managed service “in the cloud” (as can Microsoft), so your project can go ahead even if capex is on hold.

Success stories

Major international oil corporation.

This company, with hundreds of thousands of users, is using SharePoint as a core tool for standardisation and compliance, thereby avoiding the need to license and deploy additional collaboration and records management products. By using SharePoint to meet its e-discovery requirements, it is substantially reducing its legal costs, again without the need for specialist software.

UK defence industry.

Since 2000 we have provided an online collaboration managed service for the UK Ministry of Defence and its industry partners to over 15,000 users across 750 organisations. The current service provides document management, record management and workflow capability based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and operates on a trusted and secure infrastructure, accredited to hold information up to and including UK RESTRICTED.