Hosted SharePoint Business Advanced Package

Our Business advanced hosted SharePoint package offers the same features and functionality as our business basic SharePoint hosted package but in addition you have the ability to create more users and subsites, store more information as you have larger server storage space allocated and also enables you to make use of some great new application templates which can provide your business with ready made applications. With our Business Advanced hosted SharePoint package you get the following as standard:

• 1 Primary SharePoint site
• 5 SharePoint subsites included
• The ability to define 10 user accounts
• 500MB of server storage space
• Out of the box templates to get you up and running quickly
• SSL encrpytion
• 10 Application templates!

What is SSL encryption?SSL encryption enables your user id, password and content to remain encrypted until the information reaches your computer. This gives you peace of mind that your information is secure What are application templates? Application templates are out of the box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They can be applied to a task, such as managing a help desk or tracking a marketing campaign, to easily create a dedicated Web-based application for a more efficient and effective way of working. When you sign up to the SharePoint Advanced Package you will have access to 10 application templates. Please see below for details

Your 10 Application Templates Included

Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management

Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects

The Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects application template helps project teams track and budget multiple, interrelated sets of activities. The template provides project management tools such as project creation, assignment of new tasks, Gantt Charts and common status designators. It helps team members consolidate the status of multiple projects into a single view, tracking progress against a set project budget and time line.

Bug Database

The Bug Database application template helps development teams collect and track information about bugs in their code. The template allows bugs to be logged with information such as reproduction steps, category, comments, priority and severity of the bug. Bug categories can specify category owners so users can quickly determine the appropriate bug owners.

The Call Center application template helps teams manage the process of handling customer service requests. The application template helps teams manage service requests from issue identification to cause analysis and resolution. Role-based dashboards display relevant information for each service request and a knowledge base can help track related documents and items previously used to solve past call center issues. Management focused dashboards track performance with metrics such as average resolution time and service request performance history.

Change Request Management

The Change Request Management application template helps users track risks associated with a design change. Team members can submit a change request, notifying stakeholders of the risks involved with the change. The application template allows a team member to approve or reject the request.

Compliance Process Support Site

The Compliance Process Support Site application template helps both teams and executive sponsors to manage compliance implementation endeavors. The site allows users to specify control tasks required to meet regulation requirements as well capture compliance issues as they arise. The application template contains document libraries used by team members to store related files as well as a calendar to track key audit dates.

Contacts Management

The Contacts Management application template helps teams manage contact information that needs to be shared among team members. The application template allows teams to enter contact information through a web based interface or through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. When used in conjunction with Office Outlook 2007, team members can ‘subscribe’ to receive updated contract information whenever other users make changes to a contact.

Document Library and Review

The Document Library and Review application template helps people manage the review cycle common to processes like new product specification, publication, knowledge management and project plan development. It combines the functionality of a version-tracking document library with a threaded discussion list to provide a feedback and revision system. This template is intended for teams that need a central location for document review, discussion, revision control and approval.

Event Planning

The Event Planning application template helps teams organize events efficiently through the use online registration, schedules, communication and feedback. Role based dashboards offer specific information for various event members such as speaker, guest, staff, vendor, and delegate and attendee home pages.

Expense Reimbursement and Approval

The Expense Reimbursement and Approval application template helps manage elements of the expense approval process, saving time for approvers. Employees can enter expense information into the application template. Approvers can then review the information and manage the payment approval. Users monitor the status of their reimbursement request through a filtered view listing their outstanding requests.