Apress

Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.

AvePoint is a global leader in infrastructure management software solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, providing organizations the enterprise-strength tools vital for success. AvePoint specializes in comprehensive data protection, disaster recovery, replication, migration, administration, archiving and compliance solutions for all Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Established in 2001, Bamboo Solutions is the leading provider of technologies that augment the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Bamboo currently offers more than 60 products providing a broad range of enhanced capabilities for SharePoint.

CorasWorks is a global leader in applications and application development tools that drive immediate business value on Microsoft SharePoint. More than 1,000 organizations and 1 million users worldwide download and use plug-and-play apps from CorasWorks and our partners, and build their own applications without the cost and complexity of custom code using our comprehensive application development system.

In August of 2008, the Critical Path Training technical staff was hired by the Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) team at Microsoft to author and deliver a hands-on training course for SharePoint 2010 developers. Over the last year, Critical Path Training instructors including Ted Pattison, Andrew Connell, Scot Hillier, Wouter Van Vugt and Chris Predeek have successfully delivered this workshop to hundreds of professional software developers from Microsoft as well as other ISVs and System Integrators that have been a part of the private beta. Shouldn’t you make Critical Path Training your “go to” resource for SharePoint 2010 training? www.criticalpathtraining.com

The increasing adoption of SharePoint as an intuitive collaboration platform for users has spread various business data over multiple sites and lists. At the same time, this has created the need to report and aggregate data from multiple SharePoint sites and lists to further increase the business value of this data.

Enesys RS Data Extension provides a solution to this demand by extending "Microsoft Reporting Services" and by letting you query (retrieve, join, merge,...) data and build reports from any SharePoint list.

What sets Fpweb.net apart? We know SharePoint – and we don’t just support the hardware, we support the application. Increase profitability with our custom MOSS server farms at 60% less cost than on-premise builds.

Go to market faster with Fpweb.net rapid deployment of SharePoint and Exchange Hosting, MS Project Server and more. Get back to business and forget about the complexities of SharePoint Servers with our complete SharePoint Lifecycle Management Services.

i3solutions uses the power of 3 key components - intelligence, innovation, and integration to incorporate people, processes and software into robust solutions designed to save time and money. We understand business and technology, and work with our clients to implement solutions designed to meet their specific business challenges

Training is an integral part of every business’ operational success and it is critical to receive the finest; a program tailored to the needs of your organization. Infotec offers a level of training distinction that sets us apart from multi-discipline vendors. Specializing ONLY in training, it enables us to keep our finger on the pulse of the leading methods and in-turn, give each client the very best. Infotec provides a comprehensive list of services all tailored to supporting training related functions.

Innovative-e employs a business-first approach to technology to help you increase worker productivity, improve information management practices and streamline business processes through SharePoint.

SharePoint provides an easy to use environment for collaborating on and managing unstructured content. In many cases, content that is stored in the SharePoint environment needs to be used as part of a process-driven application. The K2 platform provides extensive integration with SharePoint without the need to write code.

MetaVis Technologies provides software solutions to help organize SharePoint environments for improved search, findability and e-discovery. MetaVis takes the complexity out of designing, deploying and managing content within SharePoint by offering reusable taxonomies, metadata management and migration software and services. The benefit is an organized SharePoint environment that is easily understood and well documented.

The company believes that taxonomy management within SharePoint should not be complicated to implement and use. MetaVis products are based on intuitive, graphical interfaces that are easy to use and easy to install. Drag and drop features allow information architects to design SharePoint metadata models and reuse them saving valuable time and resources. As a result, MetaVis products improve search optimization, consistency, content migration, and workflows across corporate SharePoint sites. www.metavistech.com

It's Microsoft - need we say more??!!

O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Quest Software delivers innovative products that help you get more performance and productivity from your applications, databases and Windows infrastructure. Quest is an industry leader in SharePoint solutions, offering tools to manage, recover, migrate, develop and secure your growing SharePoint environment. With Quest, you reduce administrative time, consolidate and migrate information to SharePoint, easily and cost-effectively build applications in SharePoint, and protect critical business information within SharePoint. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 100,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

Need more out of Windows® SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server? Planning on deploying Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Office SharePoint Server 2007?

RJB Technical Consulting is the leading provider of consulting and development services for Windows SharePoint Technologies. We apply our proven methodology for delivering SharePoint solutions. The methodology consists of six primary phases which include:

Strategy briefing – discussion with key executives to identify and tie requirements to their KPIs so that we deliver a strategy focused solution.

Architecture Design Session – a two day off site workshop that includes key technical stakeholders from the business and I.T. The key objective is to walk out of the ADS with an architecture design that allows us to move forward to the proof of concept or pilot phase.

Proof of Concept / Pilot – Tactical implementation of portal #1 and testing.

Implementation – Go Live!

Training – The high level of integration between MS Office and SharePoint is changing the way people work. Sending users off to the local ATEC for training is insufficient. To truly enable them and change the way your knowledge workers both work and collaborate will require a customized training plan.

Knowledge Transfer – best practices and standard operating procedures to enable your support staff to repeat the process successfully.

We believe the application of this methodology will enable you to quickly and efficiently deliver significant value to the business in a highly visible manner.

If you need assistance with planning your implementation, customizing SharePoint to fit your own needs, or learning how you can better operate with SharePoint Technologies at the heart of your business, please request a free thirty-minute consultation with our team.

Founded in 2004 by Microsoft MVP Shane Young, SharePoint911 was established to draw on Shane’s extensive experience with systems administration and with consulting for clients on SharePoint issues. His “SharePoint Help…Now!” approach focused on small consulting engagements - helping clients quickly and efficiently.

Over the past several years, SharePoint911 has expanded and evolved. While our ability to respond quickly to specific needs makes us unique, we also offer comprehensive consulting services. By adding other Microsoft MVPs to our consultant base, not only do we have extensive, real world experience, but our consultants also teach, write about, and speak on various SharePoint topics.

We truly are “The SharePoint Authority.”

SharePoint is quickly becoming the knowledge capital of enterprise data and business intelligence for organizations of all sizes. In recognition of the ever-expanding need for reliable solutions within the SharePoint environment to facilitate development and use, Software FX is bringing its award-winning technology into the SharePoint market and providing state-of-the-art data visualization solutions along with training services that integrate directly into SharePoint portals.

Founded in 2000, SurfRay is a global leader in search infrastructure software for enterprises that delivers highly packaged enterprise search solutions that are easy to try, buy and install. SurfRay has more than a 1000 customers in over 30 countries and is dual headquartered in Santa Clara, USA and Copenhagen, Denmark.

Our products are entreprise class and installs in typically 5 minutes. But don't take our word for it check out the installation video - or even better get a trial and see for your self.

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Since 1981, TCSC has been an industry leader in design, development and implementation of productivity-enhancing business solutions.

TEKsystems^® is the leading IT staffing and services company. Our capabilities span a wide range of services: from technical staff augmentation and direct placement services, to full management of IT projects and comprehensive workforce management solutions.

With over 25 years of experience, we are experts at connecting technical professionals. Whether you are looking for the best IT talent, an experienced IT outsourcing partner, or a career in the IT industry, TEKsystems delivers.

Telerik is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight,WinForms and WPF controls and components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS and Web Testing tools. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

The 137,000 square-foot, $22.5 million-dollar Advanced Technology Center has been developed by a special state/city partnership of the Commonwealth of Virginia through Tidewater Community College, the Virginia Beach City Public Schools, and the City of Virginia Beach. The City of Virginia Beach provided $12.5 million in funding and the Commonwealth of Virginia contributed the land and an additional $10 million. The center provides a unique blueprint for technical education in Virginia Beach, and for the nation as a whole.

Wrox Press is committed to supporting the programming community. As part of that commitment, we have developed the Wrox User Group Program to support the efforts of programmer user groups throughout the world. You can also add a Wrox graphic to your site and your user group members will be able to enjoy savings on their next Wrox purchase!