Evaluating SharePoint for Enterprise Deployment

Take this course as a follow-on to our first in this series, "Evaluating Native SharePoint Services," or -- if you already know the basics about SharePoint 2007 -- just skip the first course and dive right in here. Based on our heralded SharePoint Report, this course will enable you to confidently assess and plan any effort to extend SharePoint beyond a set of departmental installations into an enterprise-wide platform.

For more details, including learning objectives, download the course Fact Sheet (PDF).

Outline

Modules included in this course:

• SharePoint as an Application Development Platform
• Enterprise Architecture and Operations
• Evaluating the SharePoint Ecosystem
• Best Practices and Looking Forward

Who should take this course

• Business analysts -- to learn what key investments need to be made to up-size SharePoint for the enterprise
• Information and Knowledge Managers -- to compare SharePoint against other enterprise-wide information and knowledge management tools in your enterprise
• SharePoint project managers, senior architects, and lead developers -- to understand different approaches for customizing and extending SharePoint
• Enterprise architects -- to learn about architectures, governance, critical 3rd-party modules, and other aspects of running SharePoint beyond a single installation
• IT managers -- to better guide business colleagues about choices and impacts before they try to extend SharePoint unawares
• Consultants -- to understand how to improve SharePoint implementations through better governance and 3rd-party tools
• Anyone considering implementing SharePoint and wanting to know how it will scale across the enterprise
• Individuals who took our first SharePoint course and want more of the basics

What's not covered

• Discussion of out-of-the-box services - covered in our first SharePoint course, "Evaluating Native SharePoint Services"