on-premise

SharePoint 2010 has more “flavors” to choose from than SharePoint 2007.  But unlike Ben & Jerry’s – where the choices are fun to sample, SharePoint’s are, well… not so much fun to make sense of.   No worries, Fpweb.net SharePoint Experts to the rescue with a small plastic spoon.  We have been sorting out SharePoint licensing for our customers for over a decade now.  Can we skip right to Cherry’s Garcia or Chunky Monkey?

So let’s identify the versions and talk about a few discoveries we have made getting our hosted SharePoint 2010 offering ready for you.

We’re certainly happy that we saved $971,000 in datacenter costs by choosing Windows Server® 2008 datacenter operating system with Hyper-V™. And we’re pleased that Microsoft highlighted us in one of their Case Studies last week; our very own Tom Brauch (“El Presidente”) and Fpweb.net founder Rob LaMear IV (“CEO-MCSE”)  were also quoted in the case study sounding mighty snazzy we might add.

We chose this system to reduce datacenter costs, improve server manageability and, most importantly, improve customer service. We certainly hope this new Microsoft case study highlighting our company will show you the dedication we have; striving to provide our customers with the very best SharePoint Hosting experience.

Want to keep SharePoint on-premise but can’t support it? You are not alone. Fpweb.net can help with our fully managed online support services.

We have folks coming to us regularly who have decided to keep SharePoint on-premise for compliance or control reasons. Unfortunately, they are finding it increasingly difficult to support SharePoint end-users. As SharePoint demand grows internally, SharePoint support staff is becoming increasingly scarce. And with the upcoming release of SharePoint Server 2010, this problem is likely to grow and accelerate at a rapid-fire pace.

Fpweb.net has started to offer fully managed SharePoint help desk and support services, managing on-premise SharePoint installs remotely via online monitoring tools. We also offer onsite and remote server farm maintenance.

This past week, I attended the Midwest SharePoint Conference.  There were about 300 people at the conference.  I heard great presentations from Quilogy, Nintex, and Microsoft.  I was probably most impressed with where Nintex has taken their work flow and reporting tools.  They have taken a UI based approach that makes work flows and reporting simple for users.

I also met Nintex co-founder, Brett Campbell.   Brett is an amazingly sharp guy that really understands his customers.  Brett and I were able to key some of our key folks together and push our partnership forward while at the conference.  So in the coming months, expect to see Fpweb.net offering services from Nintex.