MS SharePoint as a Service

A rich and varied enterprise collaboration framework, customised and delivered to your exact requirements

Adapt hosts and delivers Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as a Service on a predictable per user per month model, with no associated infrastructure management cost. SharePoint 2010 offers the following features:

• SharePoint Sites provide a single infrastructure for all your business websites - share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners and publish information to customers
• SharePoint Communities deliver great collaboration tools and a single platform to manage them, making it easy to share ideas and work together
• SharePoint Composites offer tools and components for creating do-it-yourself business solutions - build no-code solutions to rapidly respond to business needs
• SharePoint Insights gives authorised users access to databases, reports and business applications
• SharePoint Content makes content management easy. Set up compliance measures ”behind the scenes” with features like document types, retention polices, and automatic content sorting, then let people work naturally in Microsoft Office
• SharePoint Search offers a unique combination of relevance, refinement and social cues to help people find the information and contacts they need to get the job done.

Resilient, reliable, available

SharePoint 2010’s innate high availability, delivered on Adapt’s class-leading enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC), helps your business achieve high levels of reliability. This is The eVDC is so resilient that it can survive the complete loss of a data centre; combining load balancing and database mirroring with the Adapt eVDC ensures that the SharePoint service will always be available to your users.

Your own custom-built SharePoint environment

Adapt provides a purpose-built, exclusive virtual data centre environment running Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for each customer. The solution is tailored to meet your exact requirements depending on the number of users, required availability and enabled features and is fully integrated in to your own Active Directory ensuring easy migration and a single sign-on. As part of the solution Adapt provides Microsoft SharePoint Designer with options for fully managed Virtual Desktops on request.

Adapt delivers your SharePoint application and the underlying infrastructure with 24/7 management and monitoring. And of course, we hold your data securely and exclusively within the UK.

SharePoint as a Service is for you if:

• You need a highly available UK hosted workplace collaboration service but don’t want to run it yourself
• You don’t have the infrastructure or personnel to provide a reliable collaboration service
• You want the commercial freedom of a cloud model with the flexibility of a managed service

Key benefits

• Cost-effective, enterprise-class 'always on' collaboration services
• Only pay for what you consume, providing predictable costs as your business grows
• Access to your own customised SharePoint environment, delivered by domain experts

Features

• Per user per month cost model
• Access your content anytime from hundreds of devices
• Highly available sites
• Custom built to match your requirements
• 24/7 monitoring by dedicated Service Operations Centre