Don’t have the in-house skills to support your investment? Need an extra set of hands to assist during business hours or even after business hours and over holidays? Or perhaps you just want top of the line, proactive and consistent monitoring of your SharePoint environments. Focal Point can assist.
Let us keep your SharePoint Environment running smooth while you focus on your business! With SharePoint Managed Services, Focal Point will provide:
- Focal Point will provide the ability for end users to submit requests and tickets from the customer Intranet using custom Focal Point application featured in the screen shots to the right
- Urgent requests will be acknowledged within 24 hours of submission and all other requests will be acknowledged within 72 hours of submission
- All requests and tickets will be logged and maintained in a separate SharePoint list that will allow proper resource assignment, tracking, state management and approval
- All requests that result in an implementation estimate greater than 40 hours of time will require formal customer management approval before implementation. These projects would still be covered under this SOW once formal approval is received
- A summary of all requests will be provided to customer management for review on a weekly basis
- Focal Point will assist with end user support, administration, custom development, maintenance, hotfixes, service packs, performance analysis and tuning
- Custom Solution Development and Implementation
- Permissions and User Management
- Process Automation
- Server level and SharePoint Farm level patches, updates and backups
- HA/DR assistance
As part of the Managed Services engagement, a value add Focal Point offers all customers is proactive monitoring of the SharePoint environment to minimize end user impact in the event an issue occurs and to also provide statistical analysis of the SharePoint environment usage over time. As part of the proactive monitoring practices, Focal Point will provide valuable insights into SharePoint servers and services including:
- Powerful consolidated dashboard
- Monitor SharePoint service levels from the user’s perspective
- Deliver to service level agreements (SLAs) by being smart about cause-and-effect between input factors (KPIs) and the outcome required
- Conquer SharePoint site and data explosion through keeping a close eye on the growth of sites and data and supporting necessary corrective actions before business users are affected
- Optimizing IT human resources so that SharePoint administrators can focus on the effective use of SharePoint
- Service monitoring by role including web front-end role, application role, and SQL role availability and size checks
- Advanced server management via full service tracking
- Performs user scenarios across the global farm to enhance the user experience
- Generate extensive, flexible SharePoint reports than can be aligned with your particular SharePoint Infrastructure
- Trends and forecast automated reports
- Monitor and be alerted on key functions and management criteria, index, success, SQL database availability, log scanning for keywords, disk space availability monitoring
- SharePoint monitoring: Ability to graph the response time on SharePoint Web services, receive access time alert on SharePoint Web Services, report on site usage, indexer workload and catalog statistics, monitor services and components, monitor key site availability and response time
