Portals and Collaboration 
What's the point?
Increase revenue and efficiency across your organization. Deliver timely, targeted information to your users, customers, and partners for the greatest impact. That sounds all well and good, but your internal and external information needs are a moving target.

Your business climate will evolve over time, as will how you need to convey and share information. Clearly, portal and collaboration solutions are not “one-offs” or goals in and of themselves. They’re just a start.

Here's our approach
Ascentium views portal and collaboration solutions as a robust platform that provides a foundation for fundamental applications. This approach ensures that your information sharing and line-of-business applications are 100 percent tailored to your business challenges—and that all your solutions work together in ways that directly inform each other as required.

So first we work with you to fully understand your environment, how you’re selling, how you’re growing, and the needs of your users and customers. From there, we tailor the specifics of your solution to match.

Behind this approach is a broad range of domain experts, including architects, developers, user experience experts, designers, and content and business strategists—just to name a few.

The correct solution defines itself through optimal content organization, levels of customization, workflows, and site management processes that ensure an easy-to-maintain, extensible, and cost-effective platform.

The result is that you deliver fresh information securely, internally and externally, in contexts that are meaningful right now and in the long term.

Just a few things that set us apart
Some companies understand marketing; some companies understand enterprise content management and portals. We possess a deep understanding of both.
Our practical experience with portal and collaboration solutions goes back to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and includes Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 solutions that date back to the early days of NCompass.
We can show you details of our deep expertise in expressing sales and marketing messages on large-scale Web properties.
We have deep and proven expertise in creating enterprise-wide collaboration solutions that deliver discoverable, structured information that’s easy to manage and maintain.
We optimize the discoverability, usability, and dissemination of your key messages and information. We also create a best practices toolkit to map out and implement your branding, messaging, and communications objectives across all your initiatives.

Top three benefits:
  • Increase revenue with a single platform that serves your internal and external initiatives now and as your business needs rapidly evolve.
  • Capitalize on a solid platform that builds awareness and generates revenue through high levels of content personalization, targeting, and refinement through Web analytics.
  • Increase operational efficiency by helping users collaborate more easily and by accessing previously buried information—all on a platform that enhances and interoperates with your current environment.
We offer expertise in:
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Microsoft Office system integration
  • Portal design and development
  • Enterprise search
  • Information architecture
  • Taxonomy and metadata analysis
  • Content strategy, migration, and development
  • Content and document management systems
  • Editorial strategy and management
  • Web site management
Clients & Success Stories
Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft