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The consolidation of collaboration solutions onto Microsoft SharePoint 2010 makes it possible to cut costs through lower training costs, increased IT productivity and cost-effective maintenance, all within a governable and compliant platform.

One of the most common questions that I get from prospects as I'm talking to them about the creation of a governance plan and process is what does it look like. In other words, there are materials available which describe what should be in a governance plan but there isn't a ton of guidance on what the process of creating a governance plan and process are.

Organizations around the world have been adopting SharePoint rapidly as their collaboration platform of choice.

SharePoint Products and Technologies provide a comprehensive suite of features in all areas of information management, and can enable you to consolidate all your enterprise solutions into a single, manageable platform. Many of the world's leading companies are already realizing benefits from the adoption of these technologies.

Canadian Tire wanted to streamline its communications technology platform and in doing so migrate away from its Lotus Notes environment. With help from Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Envision IT, Canadian Tire implemented a platform based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Based in Toronto, Cineplex Entertainment LP owns, leases, or has a joint-venture interest in 132 movie theatres across Canada. With widely dispersed operations, Cineplex wanted to consolidate information silos and better position itself to handle rapid growth. Cineplex upgraded to the 2007 Office system, including Office SharePoint 2007.

To emerge stronger from a period of economic uncertainty, your organization must cut costs and make more strategic decisions, emphasizing low-risk investments that drive maximum value. Business intelligence solutions from Microsoft help lower total costs, empower employees to make better business decisions, enjoy rapid deployment and faster time-to-benefits, and realize powerful synergies with other Microsoft applications.

Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 enable people to pull information together quickly from experts and data sources anywhere, then collaborate to produce documents, support customers, onboard new employees, or provide timely guidance on an important process.

SharePoint 2010 enables robust business collaboration for the enterprise and the Web by offering a fuller breadth of capabilities and new enterprise-class management tools.

About 80 percent of businesses are expected to be using SharePoint by 2010, according to Gartner. That means for the Microsoft channel community, SharePoint is a potential goldmine, a repeat revenue generator, and customer relationship builder - if you get it right.

If you have deployed SharePoint or are still in the planning phases, you probably have an ideal SharePoint scenario in mind, one where your intranet becomes useful again; your end users collaborate using team sites; and information is both organized and searchable.

After completing this virtual lab you'll be better able to dploy a web part using the Visual Studio extensions and explore Adventure Works using SharePoint Designer 2007.

Most large enterprises rely far too heavily on shared drives and e-mail as the primary mechanisms for storing and sharing enterprise documents. While these solutions work somewhat effectively when dealing with moderate volumes of documents, they cannot scale to meet the evolving needs of most companies.

LAssociation des policièrers et policiers provincaux du Québec (APPQ) required a better information management system to improve productivity, attain a better view of documents, and streamline legal services for members disputes with their employer.

This forum is the place to find answers to general (typically presales oriented) questions and about SharePoint and participate in discussions.

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