Jump Start

• Not quite sure how to get started?
• Don't fully understand what all it will take to do it correctly the first time?
• Overwhelmed or getting sidetracked by the wealth of possibilities SharePoint provides?

Mixon professionals have exceptional knowledge of planning for enterprise information projects using SharePoint technologies. A SharePoint deployment is often a large investment in both time and money from all areas of the organization.

We work closely with your project team to clearly define the principal goals and requirements for your SharePoint project. Using our thorough knowledge of SharePoint technologies we help you pinpoint the most suitable solutions (both technical and non-technical), potential constraints, appropriate project scope, and ideal deployment strategy. At the culmination of our time together, we can help you communicate your preliminary project proposal to potential sponsors and stakeholders to ensure that you are gaining optimal value for your efforts.

Learn more about Mastering SharePoint in Action: Jump Start.

Success By Design

• Having trouble creating dynamic and effective enterprise information management and collaboration site?
• Understand the concepts behind content assessment, business analysis, and information architecture but struggling to put them in action?
• Running into hurdles with your taxonomy (decisions, decisions, decisions!) and need help getting over them?
• Have a governance mess from too many cooks without a cookbook?
• Not getting the benefits you expected from SharePoint?
• Low user adoption or frustrations with your current environment?
• Loved our "Jump Start" and ready for more action?!

The best SharePoint enterprise content management(ECM) solutions all have one very important thing in common, a taxonomy that empowers both the contributor and consumer of information. In fact, when people say SharePoint “doesn’t work” it’s usually because they failed at this step. Creating an effective taxonomy can be the most challenging part of planning. We find that most people either know the technology but don’t “get” ECM or understand the importance of information design but aren’t sure how to map it to SharePoint.  We are the best in the business at bridging that divide.

To deploy a SharePoint solution that truly works for your business and your users, you must...

1. Using your high-level goals and scope as a compass, work with key business personnel, to conduct an evaluation of their information assets, processes, and solution requirements.
2. Develop a taxonomy (considering site structures, content types, and metadata) for your SharePoint solution(s) that improves and supports the creation, capture, management, preservation, and findability of information that is vital to business processes.