Integration

Process based collaborative solutions pull and push information between participating systems and their databases while adhering to underlying business rules and data standards. In order to maximize and protect your investment in IT, doesn't it make sense to tackle these issues head on? Why ignore them and face the prospect of yet another silo based solution that adds to the overhead of systems and data management for your organization...?

Let's face it, integration can be a daunting prospect and involves grasping the nettles so that you can get to grips with all sorts of tools and techniques. Admittedly, SharePoint has the capacity to deal with this and does provide basic integration facilities via standard access methods, but unfortunately any complexities will not be resolved in this way.

These complexities are our food and drink; information management is our business and the tools and technologies for integration are a pervasive part of our experience and knowledge.

Calvis has been at the forefront of developing and defining data standards for the Real Estate and Legal sectors for many years. Much of this work has centered on XML and its related web technologies. Using this experience and knowledge we are able to integrate Line of Business systems with collaborative SharePoint solutions including Workflow, Document Management, Business Intelligence, extranet and intranet solutions and forms based solutions using Adobe 8.

Our unique 360 Consultancy Pods all contain consultancy services that address the needs of integration. You only need to review our solution scenarios and case studies to see that integration remains a key enabler and orchestrator within our blueprint for effective collaborative solutions.

Get enhanced interoperability support. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on a scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Office SharePoint Server 2007 also has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. This enables integration with existing systems and provides the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.
LDAP integration support for other pluggable authentication providers makes it easier to work with non–Active Directory sources. Out-of-the-box WSRP Consumer Web Part enables integration with other WSRP-compliant portal solutions.

Enable IT to focus on more strategic tasks Users can now create sites, initiate workflows, access back-end data, define security at a per-item level, restore deleted items and complete other tasks without involving IT. This reduced user dependence on IT improves productivity and also enables the IT department to focus on providing real value-added services to the organization. With the Business Data Catalogue, you can define and deploy business application configurations to access data residing in back-end systems. This feature can be reused by business users to create personalized views of business data without having to develop any custom code.

Simplify deployment, management, and system administration Managing a Web server farm, deploying new pieces of content and managing synchronization across those sites is now much simpler. Deployment can be done in “top-down” or “bottom-up” fashion. Simplify site staging through out-of-the-box Site-starter Templates for common Web sites, with Area and Page Layout templates and preconfigured navigation. Enhanced capabilities to back up and restore content helps IT professionals schedule backups, back up multisite collections and then restore each one individually.

Robust system monitoring, usage tracking and monitoring tools These tools help isolate and solve problems faster and improve the operational efficiency of the system infrastructure.