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Mike Demmons · Guest

Hello,

I have been tasked with giving a presentation of Windows Sharepoint Services
to management and executive in my company. I want to sell them on the need
to use SharePoint instead of basic file sharing and email.
Does anyone have any good tips or demos that might help with this
presentation?
I know this is more sales-level stuff and not technical, but any help would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Milton · Guest

You should probably show some of the staff first and see what changes they
would need to the basic web, customize the colours to look more like your
companies web site, etc. In general try and have a intranet that will do
exactly what the company needs it for rather than saying what it can be
customized to do.

Hope that helps

"Mike Demmons" wrote:

Mike Walsh · Guest

I wonder a bit about this suggestion.

You suggest amending the installed WSS in several ways yet don't recommend
talking about customization.

At this early stage I would just show what comes out of the box and its
integration with Office 2003 (for instance the fact that attachments are
stored in WSS and thus there is always only one up-to-date copy etc.)

I would leave even the basic level of customization that you mention until a
test project has been set up and you have time to get it right.

I.e. my fear is that faced with an incomplete customization, people will
think that's all that's possible, whereas I'm hoping that with a "this is
what you get out of the box with no customization" people will see the
benefits of the technique without being blinded by having some color etc.
they want to see not there.

*Both approaches are of course perfectly OK. I have perhaps a more cynical
idea of how users react to part-customization.*

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
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Andreas Pettersson · Guest

Hi Mike

I had excaktly the same task as you have been faced with for about 8 months
ago.

I had to show how this would benefit us in various ways.

The things i pointed out was the out of the box solution at first, and the
various ways it would help our produktivity. Second i pointed at the way it
could be customized, to fit various project and customer needs.

Our business is contact-center related where all our projects/customers have
special needs.

Now every agent/salesperson can participate in contributing to the extranet,
thus filling it up with information that is easy accesed by other agents.

To show differnet scenarios i used some material at the
http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/default.aspx

Link and showed the different approach in the Finance, Sales & Marketing and
Human resource demos.

So far our Intranet is a success and after some initial internal training
leed by me we Now have users that really love to contribute. Some users get
special traing to be able to learn out to Others and be able to edit on a
admin-level at their area of the Intranet, witch really easy up the work for
Us at the IT-department. We only have to give them support.

Right now we are growing and are also working on a extranet solution. This
way all our offices get "connected"

And we have our own "information-highway" that gets filled with info "by
itself" =).

Good luck!

Andreas Pettersson

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Mike Demmons · Guest

Thank-you for all of your suggestions! I hope this conversation continues,
as I believe it to be important for those in technical jobs to be able to
communicate effectively with management or executive.

Regards.........../mike

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