Applicable Extends Our Microsoft Offering to Include SharePoint Deployment Planning Services.

SDPS is a consulting services program designed to help our Microsoft Software Assurance (SA) customers successfully plan and deploy SharePoint.

Using field proven business and technical guidance, the program provides best practices and well defined results through 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15 day deployment planning sessions. The number of Packaged Service days that customers can receive is determined by a combination of the number of qualifying Office licenses and the number of Core CAL (Client Access License) Suites and Enterprise CAL Suites. So, no additional investment is needed by customers to take advantage of this new program.

The types of services delivered as listed below will depend on the length of  the engagement:

• A Strategy Briefing defines the vision for achieving technical and business goals and is part of all engagements,
• An Architectural Design Session introduces SharePoint technologies, solutions and concepts and is added in a 3 Day engagement,
• A Deployment Planning Session covers a specific SharePoint capability in depth and is added in a 5 Day engagement, and
• A Proof of Concept demonstrates the solution in the customer’s environment and is added in a 10 and 15 day engagement.

What is the value of SDPS to customers and partners?

SDPS enables customers to effectively deploy SharePoint within their organisation and helps remove the customer perceived risk and cost of planning for a SharePoint deployment. 

SDPS offers an engagement that is customised for each customer, addressing their specific business or technical challenges.

SDPS enables customers to get more value out of their existing Software Assurance investment, and it's available to them at no additional cost. 

SDPS vai Applicable helps customers identify a roadmap for transformation and management of their current collaborative strategies. Customers will benefit from understanding the value of an improved business productivity infrastructure based on SharePoint as it relates to the key capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server:

• Collaboration
• Portals
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
• Enterprise Search (ES)

Learn more about SDPS from Applicable