SDPS is a new Software Assurance Packaged Services benefit. SDPS is designed to help organizations plan an effective deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. SDPS includes a broad range of planning tools and services that help optimize the effectiveness of SharePoint's core capabilities, and help lower the cost of deployment and adoption.
SDPS matches customers with a certified partner who will conduct a highly effective planning process for deploying or getting more out of a customer's SharePoint investment. SDPS provides a reliable, repeatable process for certified SDPS consultants to conduct a 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15-day programmatic planning sessions using Software Assurance benefits. You will want to ensure you are part of this program!

At the end of the engagement, you will have a customized roadmap for your unique environment that includes a comprehensive business plan, timelines and resources to help you successfully transform your collaborative processes by using Office SharePoint Server.
An SDPS engagement focuses on three main MSSP sections: Qualify and Develop, Solution, Proof, mapping these to Solution Development, Strategy Briefing and Architecture Design, and Proof of Concept and Production Pilot respectively. Not all SDPS engagements include all of these sections. For example, only the 10-and 15-day engagements provide a Proof-of-Concept.

Gather requirements at a high level and results in a set of strategic recommendations.

Further analysis or requirements and results in a design and deployment plan. Also introduces SharePoint technologies, solutions and concepts to the customers.

Expands on the Three Day offering, and adds a virtual lab session to give the customer a hands-on understanding of the technologies.

Expands on the Five Day offering, provides a leave behind lab, and includes a revision session to incorporate lessons learned in the deployment plan. Also Proof of Concept demonstrates the solution in the customer's environment.

Expands on the Ten Day offering and results in a production pilot. Also Proof of Concept demonstrates the solution in the customer's environment.

Employees today are increasingly asked to collaborate, innovate and compete in the new world of work. Companies are asking their people to share information across the enterprise or in a mobile environment not only across time, geographical and organizational boundaries, but also increasingly with customers and partners.

The solution would be SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) from Saras America. This service offering is designed to help your organization plan an effective deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). SDPS includes a broad range of planning tools and services that help optimize the effectiveness of the Office SharePoint Server core capabilities, help lower the cost of deployment and help improve the productivity of your organization. Saras America will share its best practice, analyze your organization's IT environment and provide tools and services that can help you plan your MOSS implementation.

SDPS enables customers to obtain a roadmap to understand how to effectively deploy SharePoint within their Organization and helps remove the customer perceived risk and cost of planning for a SharePoint deployment. In turn, this frees up time for your IT staff to concentrate on other business-critical issues.

Upon engaging Saras America for a SDPS appointment, your business will see a dramatic increase in user productivity, lower total cost of ownership, as well as an improved return on your software investment.

SDPS offers an engagement that is customized 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 gives customers answers coming directly from Microsoft experts and partners, like Saras America, delivering SDPS engagements.

SDPS offers an engagement that is customized to the needs of the customer (collaboration, portals, ECM workflow or enterprise search)

In order to procure SDPS from Saras America, all you need to do is submit your SDPS voucher provided to you by Microsoft. As soon as your voucher is submitted, your Saras America account manager will work with you to schedule a SDPS engagement.

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