June 2006

A Very Active Time in the SharePoint Community

Letter from William Rogers, President & CEO, CorasWorks Corporation

The last four months have been incredibly active for those of us in the Microsoft and SharePoint community. Kicking off this period was Office Devcon in March, with MSD2D’s first SharePoint Connections Conference following shortly thereafter in April. Then in May, we experienced Microsoft’s Global SharePoint Conference, and the Spring rounded out, just last week in Boston, with the Microsoft TechEd Conference. And if the information presented at all these events wasn’t enough, we were further excited by the Beta 2 releases for Office 2007 and Windows Vista.

So what does all this activity mean? To help you digest this very broad set of technologies over the next few months, CorasWorks will increase its focus on clearly demonstrating a) where you can get with these technologies and b) what incremental paths are available to you to move forward. This newsletter will begin the process by focusing on design options, in particular, the migration to enterprise-wide application design. In addition, we will discuss the positive impact on business value that you should expect as you progress forward in the context of CorasWorks on SharePoint.

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Going Beyond Site-Bound Application Design with SharePoint 2007

Team sites are the core application design element with SharePoint 2003. Their ease of use and flexibility has driven strong adoption amongst users and organizations. Yet, the potential for business applications that leverage the new Office SharePoint 2007 capabilities is often limited by the inclination of SharePoint designers to utilize site-bound design. As the SharePoint Portal Server architecture of areas and sub-areas is migrated to team sites on SharePoint 2007, there is an additional risk of designs becoming even more “site bound.” In this article, we’ll discuss different types of “enterprise-wide” application designs that offer the opportunity for greater business impact, which we believe will become more prevalent in the SharePoint 2007 era.

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Enterprise-wide Program Management in SharePoint: the Means to Manage

One of the most exciting examples within the new CorasWorks Showroom for SharePoint 2007 is the CorasWorks Program Management Office (PMO) application. It addresses a rather familiar application scenario by utilizing some novel capabilities that transform an enterprise-wide implementation of disconnected project sites into an easily managed, distributed application that cuts across a whole SharePoint environment.

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Bringing It All Together... An Inter-Connected Customer-Sales-Partner (“CSP”) Workplace on SharePoint

Another application in the CorasWorks Showroom on SharePoint 2007 is the new Customer-Sales-Partner (CSP) Workplace. In the showroom, it appears to be three separate portal applications. Yet it is actually a single application that represents a new class of enterprise-wide applications within the SharePoint environment.  This application differs from the PMO application in four important ways:
-  It integrates three portals (Customer, Sales, and Partner) into a single application called a “workplace”
-  It demonstrates the integration of the three different “zones” of Internet, Intranet, and Extranet into a single system
-  It introduces the idea of a “workstream” that functions as a top layer of business process that runs across the environment
-  It shows the integration of three new capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Workflow, Forms Server, and the Business Data Catalog

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Achieving Business Value with CorasWorks and SharePoint

CorasWorks is pleased to offer two new ways to learn how your organization can achieve greater business value from your SharePoint investment with CorasWorks.

Our first offering is our latest white paper entitled "Cost Effective Application Development." This white paper features powerful business cases of leading organizations in the private and public sectors that have been able to reduce their development costs by 80%, and reduce the “time to solution” by 75%, while also increasing user adoption and satisfaction. We encourage you to download this new white paper today.

Our second offering is a case study about a Manufacturing Firm, Kaz, that uses the CorasWorks Workplace Suite to deploy a Help Desk application and Corporate Planning solutions to improve Technical Support response time and communication within the organization. Review this case study today.

CorasWorks Training, Workshops and Webcasts

CorasWorks Training, Workshops and Webcasts

CorasWorks is Pleased to Offer these Upcoming Events:

For Customers:

Workplace Builder Training – July 10-12 and August 14-16 in Reston, VA
Advanced Builder Training – July 13-14 and August 17-18 in Reston, VA
1-Day Product Deployment Lab – June 29 and July 24 in London

For Prospects:

Our Workplace Workshops In 30 cities this June and July!

North America

Atlanta, GA

Boston, MA

Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Irvine, CA

New York City, NY
Minneapolis, MN
Philadelphia, PA
Reston, VA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Toronto, Canada

International

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Auckland, New Zealand