Organisations 'Sitting on SharePoint Money Mountain', warns Parity
~ Parity offers a ‘QuickStart’ to unlock value from Microsoft investment ~
October 2008
Organisations that have bought Microsoft Office SharePoint Server but not deployed it are failing to maximise on their investment and losing out on hundreds of thousands of pounds in increased staff productivity. Parity is warning that at a time of looming recession, it’s not an investment they can afford to waste. The business and IT services company believes that SharePoint can quickly improve an organisation’s bottom line, revitalising it by helping people to manage their data and work together more effectively.
In response, Parity has launched ‘QuickStart,’ designed to accelerate SharePoint installations and provide a roadmap for the business benefits it can deliver. QuickStart involves sending in a SharePoint ‘SWAT team’ to help organisations understand what can be achieved and quickly. As well as provide planning and governance, a SharePoint prototype is created.
"Even though it’s been available for some time, there’s still widespread misunderstanding about how SharePoint works," said Simon Wayne, managing director for Parity Solutions. "It’s not like the Office suite, which is basically ‘plug and play’. To take full advantage of its toolset, you need a more sophisticated installation. SharePoint provides the building blocks for gaining control over your unstructured data, moving towards effective enterprise content management. Once it’s up-and-running, it can improve workforce productivity exponentially. Organisations need to start realising the benefits and stop wasting their investment."
Parity has already helped five organisation realise the benefits of SharePoint through the journey initiated by QuickStart.
About Parity
Parity is a business and IT solutions company. With over 40 years' industry experience, it delivers a range of recruitment, learning and business and IT solutions that contribute to the growth and organisational performance of private and public sector clients.
Parity has deep industry knowledge and expertise across a variety of sectors including commercial, central and local government, defence and commercial. It delivers people, skills and concepts for IT projects and programmes and has provided these services to a range of blue-chip clients, including BT, Ofgem, HBOS, The Cabinet Office, BAT and The Charity Commission.
The company operates as three divisions, Solutions, Resources and Training, all of which use people to solve business and IT issues. Parity designed and runs the largest graduate recruitment programme in the UK for The Cabinet Office, is responsible for creating the UK’s award winning eGovernment portal, eFire, ranks as the top supplier of IT and Programme and Project Management specialist contractors to the public sector through the Catalist framework and throughout its history, has delivered training to over 1 million people - more people than any other UK IT training provider.
Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Parity recorded a turnover of over £150m in 2007.
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