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Not only can we consult with you and make a vision or idea you may have come to life, at Focal Point we can provide pre-packaged solutions to assist with your most pressing business challenges. From something as complicated as onboarding or transitioning employees to quickly displaying the history of a page inline with the page, we’ve got you covered.

Check out some of our most recent pre-packaged solutions below and contact us for more information on cost and licensing options!

Purchase Request

The Purchase Request form can be utilized within an organization to control the process around end users requesting the ability to purchase new items required to complete their daily tasks. Often times within an organization, this process is manual, inefficient and does not offer historical reporting capabilities.

Specific functionality offered by the Focal Point Purchase Request form includes:

Integration with user store (Active Directory)
SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online Compatible
Automated approval workflow to control requests
Ability to extend the process and add new data points
Long term analysis and reporting capabilities to quickly and easily track total amount requested per user, per department or across the entire company

Credit Card Expense

The Credit Card form can be utilized within an organization to control the process around expense reimbursement, specifically as it relates to Credit Card expenses. Often times within an organization, this process includes multiple paper receipts, lack of oversight and delayed reimbursement for the employee.

Specific functionality offered by the Focal Point Credit Card Expense form includes:

Integration with user store (Active Directory)
SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online Compatible
Automated approval workflow to control reimbursements
Ability to extend the process and add new data points
Long term analysis and reporting capabilities to quickly and easily track total amount reimbursedÂ per user, per department or across the entire company

General Expense

Much like the Credit Card form, the General Expense form can be utilized within an organization to control the process around expense reimbursement. However, this form offers extended capabilities for mileage reimbursement and non credit card purchases.

Specific functionality offered by the Focal Point Credit Card Expense form includes:

Integration with user store (Active Directory)
SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online Compatible
Automated approval workflow to control reimbursements
Ability to reduce the reimbursement amount based on cash advanced
Ability to request mileage reimbursement
Ability to extend the process and add new data points
Long term analysis and reporting capabilities to quickly and easily track total amount reimbursed per user, per department or across the entire company

Search Driven Corporate Directory

During all the SharePoint projects that Focal Point been involved with, the thing we always have lengthy discussions on is quick wins. A quick win is something that takes very little time, low cost and an impact that spans throughout the company. A Corporate Directory is used in EVERY company out there; however, most of the time when we walk in the door it is extremely manual, being updated every week by the receptionist, sent out via email and then printed by various individuals and posted on the walls in their cubicles.

Using the Focal Point Corporate Directory, you will receive the following functionality:

Integration with Active Directory via the User Profile Service
Updates made in a single location (Active Directory)
Polished and engaging user experience
Ability to drill down at various levels including Location, Department and Job Title
Rich search experience offered by SharePoint

Global Navigation Driven by Managed Metadata

One of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2013 is Managed Navigation which allows the use of term sets to drive site collection navigation. Unfortunately, by default, a term set that is used in Managed Navigation is limited to one single site collection and cannot be used across site collection boundaries. This would mean that a new term set would need to exist for every site collection wanting to use Managed Navigation.

This limitation goes away with the Focal Point Global Navigation control. Using the Focal Point Global Navigation control, you will receive the following functionality:

Consistent, cross site collection navigation
Customized branding to meet your company’s expectations and needs
Central location to manage all navigation elements (Term Store) for all site collections across all web applications in the farm
SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online Compatible

End User Feedback

When using SharePoint to deliver content to end users, it is critically important to know ifÂ the layout of the pages or the actual content itself is being well received by the target users. Unfortunately, SharePoint does not offer out of the box functionality to gather end user feedback nor is there an easy way to build this functionality that spans the entire SharePoint farm without custom code.

By using the Focal Point End User Feedback control, you will receive the following functionality:

Ability to receive feedback at a page level
Group feedback submitted by end users at a page or site level
Limit access to feedback based on site permissions
Email site owners when feedback is submitted
Rich, engaging user experience for gathering feedback