Sharepoint Development Services

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SharePoint development services enable SharePoint users to customize and extend SharePoint’s core capabilities to suit their unique business needs better. SharePoint was launched by Microsoft in 2001. Ever since its first release, SharePoint has significantly evolved adding much new functionality over the last decade. It is credited to be Microsoft’s “fasted growing product in the company’s history” with significant adoption amongst enterprises and Fortune 500 companies around the world.

SharePoint: Both an Application & an Application Platform
SharePoint derives its massive popularity from its power, flexibility, and extensibility. A part of SharePoint is the pre-built, off-the-shelf application for quickly deploying collaboration and productivity sites. The other part of SharePoint is the platform itself on top of which to develop any web-based functionality imaginable to suit your business needs. SharePoint development services come in handy to customize the SharePoint experience for your users and to build and deploy custom applications and business solutions.

SharePoint: Endless Possibilities
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... SharePoint is compared by many to the versatile Swiss Army Knife – the one which contains many. SharePoint is multi-faceted in its capabilities and different organizations can use it very differently. Depending on their business needs, organizations might use SharePoint for intranet portals, extranets, document management, collaboration, social networks, websites, enterprise search, and business intelligence. Expert SharePoint development services can not only expedite the process of SharePoint customization, they can also bring to the table years of experience in extending SharePoint’s intrinsic capabilities and developing optimized business solutions to realize its true power. Depending on your business needs, you might be interested in SharePoint integration, SharePoint custom solutions development, SharePoint migration, SharePoint branding, etc.

SharePoint Integration
Recognizing the progressively important role SharePoint plays in organizational collaboration and productivity, many Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application software packages offer SharePoint integration capabilities. SharePoint also has a complete development stack based on web standards to facilitate integration with other organizational software suites. SharePoint development service providers immensely facilitate, through their cross-product expertise, SharePoint integration with SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel, MS Dynamics, MS Office, MS Commerce Server, Exchange Server, etc. products.

SharePoint Migration
SharePoint development services in the area of SharePoint migration may include migrating from ASP.NET or earlier versions of SharePoint (SharePoint 2001/2003/2007) to newer SharePoint versions (SharePoint 2007/2010). SharePoint migration may also entail migration of external databases (Oracle, Excel, Access, SQL, etc.) into SharePoint Lists / Libraries.

SharePoint Custom Solutions Development
The possibilities are enormous here, including but not limited to customizing SharePoint Workloads / Capabilities such as Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights, Composites; developing Custom Web Parts, Application pages, Content Types, Search (simple and advanced), Workflow (using Visual Studio), Event Receivers, Features (custom Actions, custom Ribbon controls, etc.), Timer Jobs, HttpModules, Delegate controls, Web Services, Reports, Utility apps using SharePoint object model, Utility apps using SharePoint web services, etc.

Companies like Mindfire Solutions provide expert SharePoint development services backed by years of experience of providing SharePoint services for a variety of industries and customer needs. We have served over 50+ clients in this technology domain.