SharePoint governance: Intervate and AvePoint join forces to meet the need

Issued by Intervate
Johannesburg, 05 Oct 2012

Governance is one of the hottest topics over the past 12 months among South African organisations that utilise Microsoft SharePoint, as use of the platform sometimes matures and evolves faster than expected. Yet many executives and business owners of SharePoint have struggled to create governance plans that can be easily enforced by IT - much effort has been put into grand master plans that in reality are difficult for IT and end-users to adhere to - and the associated risks and costs are increasing every day and are hard to ignore. Getting SharePoint governance right is a definite priority, especially for those organisations that are looking ahead to deploy and enjoy all the benefits that SharePoint 2013 will bring.

As a leading enterprise information management solution provider and the first certified AvePoint partner in South Africa, Intervate will be offering insights and solutions addressing this glaring problem over a roundtable briefing on 8 October at Microsoft's offices in Johannesburg. Experts from Intervate will present a governance framework that treats SharePoint as a collection of services to the business and map out corresponding policies that are enforceable and realistic. AvePoint will introduce how its latest software release, DocAve 6, combined with DocAve Governance Automation, offers the technology that closely supports Intervate's framework.

"Enforcing SharePoint governance is an uphill battle for many organisations, partially because they are missing that technology layer that enables them to centralise the multitude of SharePoint service requests, define policies and approval processes behind such requests, and automate the approval and implementation," says Roy Hobson, Business Development Executive at Intervate.

"AvePoint offers the best technology in the market to make SharePoint governance plans a reality - we have already seen massive interest among the biggest South African organisations in the past 12 months with 10 enterprise customer additions already. Together with Intervate's proven expertise in SharePoint, customers can now be confident in starting their journey towards good SharePoint governance and seeing the end of it," says Hobson.

To find out more about the event, or to register, contact Talia Farber at taliaf@intervate.com.

Intervate

Intervate was founded in early 1999 with the vision of becoming an internationally recognised provider of software products and solutions. Today, with numerous accolades and customers spanning over 30 countries, and representing leading organisations in numerous industries, Intervate is a leading provider of enterprise information management solutions for the Microsoft platform. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with content management, Web development, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and search competencies, Intervate is a recognised expert in Microsoft products and technologies, and specialises in innovative software applications and customer solutions for the Microsoft platform that unify people, processes and systems, thereby improving collaboration and productivity. Areas of expertise include imaging and capture, Web content management, intranets and portals, enterprise search, workflow and process automation, document and records management, and business intelligence.

AvePoint

AvePoint is a global technology company and proven software leader. Since its founding in 2001, AvePoint has become the world's largest provider of enterprise-class governance and infrastructure management solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Propelled by the world's largest SharePoint-exclusive research and development team, AvePoint helps more than 10 000 customers meet their specific business objectives utilising the SharePoint platform. AvePoint is headquartered and maintains its principal operational centre in Jersey City, New Jersey, with wholly owned operational centres on five continents worldwide. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Microsoft Gold Certified Portals and Collaboration Partner and Gold Certified ISV Partner.

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