SharePoint Governance in spotlight

Issued by Intervate
Johannesburg, 30 Sep 2011

As the Microsoft SharePoint platform gains traction in an increasing number of enterprises, and with it an explosion of use cases and volumes of data to be managed, the efficient and effective governance of the SharePoint platform is an increasing concern for IT departments.

Global leading SharePoint ISV AvePoint this week released an enterprise-class management platform for SharePoint Governance at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, in Anaheim, California, and AvePoint and Intervate are offering South African SharePoint customers an early introduction to the new product suite.

AvePoint's DocAve 6 simplifies the deployment, monitoring and enforcement of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 governance policies. “As platform adoption continues to grow throughout South Africa and around the world, more and more customers are looking for a way to implement and enforce SharePoint Governance across their organisations, while deriving maximum business value from their deployments,” says Garth Luke, Vice-President of Sales for AvePoint.

“DocAve 6 allows organisations to do all of this with one industry-leading management platform by increasing business productivity, reducing total cost of ownership, providing IT assurance, and enabling security and compliance for business content.”

“We are seeing increasingly complex SharePoint deployments within our customer base. Some of these are mature environments where customers who invested in earlier versions of SharePoint now require management of large volumes of content. Other customers are scaling out their SharePoint platforms to wider user bases, often spanning multiple countries, and in these scenarios security and user governance becomes the challenge,” says Roy Hobson, Practise Manager: Information Worker Solutions at Intervate.

As a leading enterprise information management solution provider, and AvePoint partner, Intervate will be hosting a round-table briefing event with Luke from AvePoint, on 10 October 2011, from 3pm, at Microsoft's William Nicol campus. Intervate is inviting enterprises with SharePoint investments to explore how their organisations are able to leverage DocAve 6 to simply automate, define, implement and enforce SharePoint Governance policies.

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 one of the world's largest providers of enterprise-class governance solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. Propelled by one of the world's largest SharePoint-exclusive research and development teams, AvePoint helps more than 8 000 customers - including many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies - meet their specific business objectives utilising the SharePoint platform. AvePoint is headquartered and maintains its principle engineering centre in Jersey City, New Jersey, with wholly-owned sales and engineering centres in the USA, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and China. AvePoint is a Depth Managed Microsoft Gold Certified Portals and Collaboration Partner and Gold Certified ISV Partner, as well as a US Government GSA provider via strategic partnerships.

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