Syrinx Consulting Announces Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Practice

Market Wire, July, 2007

Syrinx Consulting Corporation, a software development and consulting firm with expertise in Microsoft .NET and SharePoint Server 2007 technologies, today announced its SharePoint Practice. The Practice, which utilizes the development platform advances now available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, meets a growing need for businesses in financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and other sectors, to quickly and easily deploy integrated intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise. Syrinx, which employs a team of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 developers, has already completed SharePoint Server 2007 projects for numerous companies in New England.

"HarborOne is undergoing an enterprise e-Business Transformation Program with SharePoint Server 2007 as the foundation of our platform. We engaged Syrinx because they have proven leadership in the area of portals and have a uniquely positioned skill set with SharePoint 2007," said James Barry, senior vice president and CTO, HarborOne Credit Union. With $1.4 billion in assets, HarborOne Credit Union is the largest state-chartered community credit union in New England and one of the top 100 in the country. "Syrinx jumpstarted the Transformation Program, which encompasses the reorganization and delivery of our structured and unstructured data, in a matter of weeks. The Program builds upon the SharePoint platform for enhanced collaboration and capabilities and has already led to significant operating efficiencies benefiting both internal and external customers. As part of the ongoing engagement, Syrinx is also helping to introduce our in-house IT team to the additional capabilities of the platform."

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

"SharePoint products and technologies have evolved from document collaboration and versioning in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to a full-blown development environment that embraces the interactivity of Web 2.0 in 2007," said Andrew Gelina, CEO of Syrinx Consulting. "SharePoint Server 2007 offers developers powerful tools to rapidly build solutions in a fraction of the time it used to take. However, it's difficult for developers not trained and certified in SharePoint Server 2007 to know how to best architect and develop solutions, to get the most out of the SharePoint Server 2007 framework. Syrinx offers a unique and cost-effective service by identifying and executing on the right approach to maximize the use of SharePoint Server 2007's capabilities through configuration. Our expertise in .NET allows us to utilize custom code only where needed to complete any features or customizations not supported by SharePoint Server 2007 natively. Our growing team of SharePoint Server 2007 developers are in and out within two to ten weeks -- and within budget."

Syrinx Consulting's SharePoint Server 2007 Services

SharePoint Server 2007 has infinite business process relevance, including content and process management for compliance, improvement of business monitoring and insight, and simplifying secure internal and external collaboration and search. Syrinx Consulting helps companies across industries and sizes with a myriad of services to achieve their business objectives, including:

--  Analysis of project requirements and goals
--  Best practices to maximize the value of SharePoint Server 2007
    features and minimize custom development
--  Project design, implementation, deployment and cross-training using
    SharePoint Server 2007 solutions
--  Expertise in SharePoint Server 2007 capabilities for: Portals,
    Enterprise Search, Workflow, Compliance, Content Management, and more
--  Migration from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007
    

For example, a major financial services company required a custom collaboration portal for high-end technical investor clients, including document collaboration, workflow, custom forms authentication, and forums to discuss technical investing techniques. Syrinx mapped the Company requirements to SharePoint Server 2007capabilities and achieved more than 80% of the project deliverables using configuration and customization of "out-of-the-box" SharePoint Server 2007 functionality. The team then developed the remaining features using .NET and Web Part technologies, for seamless and configurable integration into the application. As a result, the Company realized significant ROI with a project delivery time of seven weeks, from conception to delivery -- versus having to apply three full-time in-house developers to develop the portal from scratch over six months.