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SharePoint Advantage 2009 - Seminar Booking 

A new series of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server based free business seminars showing how SharePoint technology can be applied to solve different business challenges. Each event covers both theory and practical demonstration and is designed to give you a foundation understanding of where Microsoft SharePoint technology fits your business problems.

If you have any questions regarding these seminars or are unable to submit a booking form please contact events@ics.net.


From On Premise to the Cloud - 3 Hour Seminar
At this seminar you will hear our expert SharePoint Consultants explain the features and benefits of Microsoft SharePoint and gain an understanding of how your business can make the most of it either on Premise or in the new world of Software plus Services. The seminar will answer questions such as:
  • How can I use SharePoint to deliver genuine and immediate cost reductions; improve quality; reduce time to-market; reduce compliance risks and create processes of innovation for my organisation
  • How have other organisations delivered successful solutions with SharePoint?
  • What are the secrets to making my SharePoint initiative a business success?
  • What are the key feature differences and business case scenarios for implementing SharePoint On Premise or SharePoint Online?
21st July, 9.30am to 1.00pm, ICS Campus Basingstoke
29th July, 9.30am to 1.00pm, Microsoft London
11th August, 9.30am to 1.00pm, Microsoft Reading
20th August, 1.30pm to 5.00pm, ICS Campus Basingstoke


From On Premise to the Cloud - Seminar Agenda

  • Introduction to ICS
  • What is SharePoint and what is key to its success?
  • SharePoint on premise verses SharePoint Online - key benefits and differences
  • SharePoint Online demonstrations
  • Building a business case for SharePoint
  • How world class businesses use SharePoint
  • What's next? How to get started with your SharePoint initiative

Whatever stage you are at in your SharePoint implementation you will benefit from this seminar. It gives a high level overview to SharePoint technology to both Business and Technical managers and Executives. If you are thinking about moving your SharePoint implementation online, but are unsure about the benefits, this seminar will help you make the decision.


Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) - 3 Hour Seminar
Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) delivers hosted communication and collaboration tools designed to give your business streamlined communications with high availability, comprehensive security and simplified IT management.

At these seminars you will hear speakers from ICS Solutions and Microsoft explain the features and benefits of BPOS and gain an understanding of how your business can make the most of it.

If you are interested in BPOS and how it may be suitable for your business, book now to secure your place. For more information about Microsoft BPOS please visit our BPOS website here.
11th August, 1.30pm to 5.00pm, Microsoft Reading
8th September, 9.30am to 1.00pm, Microsoft London
6th October, 1.30pm to 5.00pm, ICS Campus Basingstoke


BPOS Seminar Agenda

The seminar will cover:

  • Introduction to ICS Solutions and BPOS Advantage Program
  • Microsoft's vision for Online Services
  • BPOS business case and product overview
  • BPOS Exchange drilldown and demo
  • BPOS SharePoint drilldown and demo
  • BPOS OCS drilldown and demo
  • BPOS LiveMeeting drilldown and demo
  • BPOS pricing, launch offers and next steps

User Adoption: The Secret of SharePoint Success - 3 Hour Seminar
You can’t profit from SharePoint if your business does not embrace it. This sounds obvious but is the key barrier to capitalising on SharePoint's enormous potential for business improvement.

The SharePoint Deployment and User Adoption seminar will show you how to overcome the key barriers to success: getting motivated local business managers and users understanding, buying into and taking ownership for gaining business value from SharePoint.

The event will also cover Microsoft SharePoint Deployment and Planning Services (SDPS) and how this can aid your SharePoint Adoption process. We will give you the business case scenarios you need to go back to the business and the use of SDPS in the way its intended.
29th July, 1.30pm to 5.00pm, Microsoft London
24th September, 1.30pm to 5.00pm, ICS Campus Basingstoke


User Adoption: The Secret of SharePoint Success - Seminar Agenda

The seminar will answer questions such as:

  • What are effective adoption strategies?
  • How can you drive user adoption?
  • How do you gain executive level buy in?
  • What resources will you need?
  • How can you manage and scale your adoption?
  • How can you maintain momentum?

The seminar will cover:

  • Introduction to ICS
  • Why is User adoption crucial to SharePoint success?
  • Developing your SharePoint Adoption Strategy with The SharePoint Adoption Framework
  • Demonstration: SharePoint Learning Management System – LearningPoint
  • Demonstration: SharePoint Adoption Portal
  • SharePoint Deployment Planning Services
  • Next steps

You should attend this seminar if you are a Business and Technical Manager, a SharePoint ‘Power’ user, if you have implemented SharePoint and wish to ensure wider adoption and if you have a general interest in SharePoint Adoption, SharePoint Deployment and SharePoint Training.

 

The portal concept: SharePoint as an Integration and Development platform - 3 Hour Seminar
Many organisations use SharePoint for collaboration and document management, but the real power in SharePoint lies in its use as a Portal which connects people, processes information; integrates Line Of Business applications; and uses it as a platform to develop multiple business solutions.

SharePoint is an application development platform. SharePoint as a ‘portal ’ brings together information from your other systems, taking the use of SharePoint to the next level.
20th August, 9.30am to 1.00pm, ICS Campus Basingstoke
15th October, 9.30am to 1.00pm, Microsoft Reading


The portal concept: SharePoint as an Integration and Development platform - Seminar Agenda

  • Introduction to ICS
  • From Intranets to Portals
  • SharePoint as an Application Development Platform
  • SharePoint, SOA and Systems integration
  • Demonstration
  • Developing your SharePoint integration and development strategy

SharePoint Showcase - The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting - All day event
As the UK's number 1 SharePoint Partner we have used our experience to bring together the very best of SharePoint products in the market under one roof. The unique SharePoint conference setting makes it easy for you to find the information you need from the leading players in the UK SharePoint products market to make effective purchasing decisions direct. At the SharePoint Showcase you can:
  • Control your agenda by attending the general sessions and 1-to-1 meetings
  • Explore detailed questions with the vendors that are most relevant to you
  • Save time by seeing the best SharePoint offerings under a single roof
16th September, 9.30am to 5.00pm, ICS Campus Basingstoke


SharePoint Showcase - Agenda

There will be 6-8 SharePoint vendors presenting throughout the day in one-to-many briefings and you will have the opportunity to book one-to-one meetings with the vendors on the day. The September agenda and partners are TBC but you can pre-book your space now to avoid dissapointment.

Why should you attend? We have held three SharePoint Showcase events, here is what a few delegates had to say about the event:

"The day provided a good insight into the technologies available, expertise on offer from ICS and a sound opportunity to network" - Northamptonshire County Council

 

"A well organised event, great to have a range of suppliers in one place and chance to talk with other interested people. Very informative" - Esher College

 

"Great presentations, a lot of potential" Rothschild

 

"An extremely useful day" WNDC

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