SharePoint – What’s the point?

Introduction BCM Hanby Wallace – one of Ireland’s Top Ten law firms 300 employees – 40 Partners Key competency in Employment, Health Services, Litigation, Corporate Clients range from Corporations, Financial Institutions, Government departments, private companies and individuals Awarded the prestigious ‘Client Service Law Firm of the Year ‘ award Moving to new premises May 2010

Looking for a solution  How to Improve inefficiencies  How to improve communications  De-centralized information  Spreadsheets  Directory databases  KPIs  Intranet - Static information promotes non- use

Looking for a solution  Intranet  Up to date? Flexible?  Explosion of applications on the desktop  Fee earners are not great with IT  Their role is to Time record and not worry about technology  Too many windows opened  Although useful – is not the ideal way to share information

Why SharePoint?  OVS agreement  Great ‘Out-of-the-box’ features  Staff Directory – Active Directory  Workflow – Expenses  Calendar collaboration  Office 2007 deployment Feb 2009

Why Sharepoint?  The desktop is changing  One tool required  Centralized repository  ‘One stop shop’ – make it easy for your clients  Update in one place – Active Directory makes sense  Account information  KPIs  Business processes  Workflows

Why SharePoint  Reporting  Replace arduous boring tasks  Future initiatives  Collaboration internally  Ability to share information across departments securely using ‘My Sites’  Externally  Litigation reports  Subscriptions/RSS feeds – bring the information to our clients