Sunday, 10 February 2013

SharePoint In Healthcare Industry: A Good Example

SharePoint in healthcare organizations can help connect and empower health professionals to work together more efficiently and improve care processes. A SharePoint healthcare system can be quickly and flexibly deployed by a good custom SharePoint development company as an intranet, extranet, or internet solution to suit a wide range of healthcare industry needs. The SharePoint business collaboration platform provides a host of features that map to specific business needs of the healthcare industry. In doing so, SharePoint overcomes many of the existing challenges with legacy healthcare systems and presents a more collaborative, integrated, and powerful care system.

SharePoint Healthcare Portal
Here is an example of a SharePoint healthcare portal – developed by Mindfire Solutions, an expert custom SharePoint development company, for one of its healthcare clients – to help connect and empower neonatal nurses to work together more efficiently. The client healthcare organization envisioned a collaborative solution to help neonatal nurses collaborate among themselves and other national/international health professionals, share information and get involved in healthcare decision making for improved newborn care. The SharePoint Portal for Neonatal Nurses so developed consists of two zones: Intranet & Internet.


The INTRANET zone is accessible to the admin for a plethora of administrative tasks. The internal site consists of, among other things, document libraries, picture libraries, surveys, sites, people and groups, lists, member management, membership request management, etc. Persons with admin permissions can only access and update the intranet site. Some registered nurses are elected to be in Board of Directors for a particular year. The admin facilitates this within SharePoint and grants them privileges to other sub-sites, for example.


The INTERNET site, on the other hand, is used by external users (i.e. neonatal nurses). The Internet zone is a full-fledged portal. In addition to the standard set of pages (e.g. Welcome, Home, About Us, Membership, Event, Partnership, Contact Us, etc.), the portal consists of additionally developed pages (like Member Registration page, Member Log-in page, Member Landing page, My Profile page, etc.) and even pages for privileged users (like Board of Directors, Conference Committee, Education Committee, Executive Committee, etc.).


A set of basic functionality is also exposed by the portal that anonymous users can view, such as Recent News, Upcoming Events, etc. Anonymous users can send membership requests and, after Admin approval, are provided with login credentials and member benefits such as Document sharing & downloading through various libraries, Member Directory, Polls, Discussion Boards, Announcements, Useful Links, Blogs, Newsletters, etc. Time jobs running in the background send out various notification emails to stakeholders at appropriate times. The integrated payment gateway enables credit card processing during new member registration and membership renewal.

Mindfire: Custom SharePoint Development Company
Mindfire Solutions is a a Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner and an expert Custom SharePoint Development Company in India. Its 7+ years of
SharePoint Application Development experience and Healthcare domain expertise equips it to create improved and powerful collaborative SharePoint healthcare experiences to fill gaps, increase efficiency, and improve care processes. Mindfire has also developed industrial-strength SharePoint solutions for customers across Education, Services, FMCG, Travel & Tourism, Utilities, Distribution, and Technology industries.


To know more about our expertise in Sharepoint Site Migration and to hire Sharepoint development experts, please contact us at sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Top Reasons Why To Choose Sharepoint For Collaboration

Working together is made easier by Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint, throughout its evolution, has been a great platform supporting collaboration, enabling increased productivity, and offering content management. All in an Office-like familiar environment. According to a recent Forrester survey, SharePoint 2010 is witnessing strong adoption and usage across organizations of all sizes and in most industry sectors.

Custom Solutions
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as-is, with its powerful core of pre-built functionalities, covers many generic business needs. It enables you to quickly deploy productivity and collaboration sites to meet many of your standard requirements. Having said that, should your organizational needs be a little different from what SharePoint’s pre-built functionalities have to offer, you can powerfully customize and extend its core to make it fit your business context better. What makes SharePoint so successful around the world is greatly attributed to this flexibility and extensibility it has been thoughtfully designed with. You can create custom SharePoint solutions in simple to sophisticated and practically limitless ways, as is done by many successful SharePoint organizations, to leverage its true power.


You can have custom Web Parts, plug-ins, modules created which are not a part of SharePoint’s original installation but needed to suit the exact way you do your business. You may develop advanced search, custom work flows, application pages, actions, ribbon controls, utility apps, content types, event receivers, timer jobs, delegate controls, web services, reports, etc. SharePoint is an extremely powerful application platform which lets you create any custom solution you may need.

Caveat
The greatest power of SharePoint – its flexibility – is also its greatest limitation: there are so many ways to accomplish the same thing in SharePoint that new users can easily get confused. Inexperienced SharePoint developers may even create a hack of a custom solution which may work immediately but crumble soon. A good Custom SharePoint Development Company can significantly ease and accelerate the process of developing custom SharePoint solutions to fit the way you do business. Certified and experienced SharePoint developers from a trusted Custom SharePoint Development Company can understand your business needs better, suggest best ways of accomplishing them in SharePoint, and help you build high-quality custom SharePoint solutions using less development time and potential rework.

Mindfire Solutions
Mindfire Solutions, an expert
SharePoint Application Development company and a Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner, has over seven solid years of SharePoint customization experience for diverse customer needs. With over 100+ SharePoint projects for global clients spread across a variety of industries, Mindfire’s team of 25+ certified SharePoint developers has earned it industry-wide reputation for delivering first-class service. Mindfire is a trusted one-stop Custom SharePoint Development Company offering a wide range of SharePoint services with experience in all SharePoint versions including SharePoint 2010, WSS, and MOSS. To know more about our expertise in Sharepoint Site Migration and to hire Sharepoint development experts, please contact us at sales[@]mindfiresolutions[.]com or call 1-248-686-1424. We will be glad to help you.