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Ciall sign-off Performance & Development Review System

Osvaldo Sousa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:27:19 +0000

Ciall’s SharePoint Development Team have just completed sign-off of a Performance & Development Review System (PDRS) solution which offers rich end to end functionality specifically designed to enable HR departments streamline the manager/employee appraisal process. Built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and powered by InfoPath Forms Services ’PDRS’ uses workflow functionality to send the completed review directly to HR. Workflow also provides email alerts when an action is due. This leads to an efficient system whereby hard-copy paper forms are no longer required in the process.

The key advantages of ‘SPDRS’ are as follows –

Establish a performance-based culture in your organisation
Use a system and a set of processes that will encourage both management and employees to actively engage in the Performance review
Reduce the pain of having to chase down forms and feedback
Standardise the legal monitoring of performance reviews
End the cumbersome outdated process of having to print-off, scan and email documentation back to HR
Deliver a platform where employees can assess any shortfall in their competencies and book training courses where necessary

Ciall would welcome an opportunity to talk to you about this, feel free to give us a call or request a call-back via any one of our pages on Ciall.com.

Ciall goes live with SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS)

Osvaldo Sousa — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:43:15 +0000

‘SDPS’ from Microsoft enables customers who have purchased Software Assurance (SA) to avail of free consulting days for Microsoft Office SharePoint. These days typically in the form of 1 – 15 day engagements with a certified ‘SDPS’ partner allows the customer build a roadmap for SharePoint within their organisation.

The length of the engagement will depend on the customers ‘SA’ benefit level. Typically companies use these free consulting days to understand where SharePoint will fit in their organisation, how it can be leveraged to build specific solutions such as an IT Support Helpdesk, Performance & Appraisal System and a platform for better communication across the company. Ciall would welcome an opportunity to meet with you and discuss the benefits Microsoft SharePoint can bring to your business.

SharePoint team an informative blog post here:http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/05/19/announcing-sharepoint-deployment-planning-services-sdps.aspx

Ciall showcases Dynamics NAV for EventElephant.

Michael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:04:49 +0000

EventElephant is a leading online event management company. EventElephant (www.eventelephant.com) offers a self service online product that makes it very simple for anyone to set up an event website and take registrations and payments securely online.

Ciall was selected by EventElephant to implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV as their core financial solution. The solution uses the latest SQL Integration Services technology to seamlessly integrate the online Web Portal with the back end finance solution. Please see here to read the full case study.

Twitter updates (http://twitter.com/ideasfromciall) on 2009-06-16

Barry O'Gorman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:00:00 +0000

http://twitpic.com/7jgaf – Celebrating Bloomsday outside Ciall’s offices in Fleet Street, Dublin, Ireland #

Twitter updates (http://twitter.com/ideasfromciall) on 2009-04-17

Barry O'Gorman — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:00:00 +0000

RT @barryjogorman why social networking may not be flying within the corporate world: http://bit.ly/khIUY #
Ciall helpdesk/support desk built on SharePoint http://bit.ly/BTYFn #
Streamline the monthly reporting and the annual budgeting and reporting processes with Microsoft solutions from Ciall http://bit.ly/95lXD #
Using SharePoint in Construction – Ciall worked with John Cradock Limited document management, project management http://bit.ly/LF6vk #
RT @GoodCRM: Reporting for Microsoft Dynamics GP, SL, NAV, CRM : Microsoft CRM. Especially for version 4… http://tinyurl.com/cllr8k #
Would not be able to use Twitter productively without Tweetdeck #
@MichaelHorgan you need tweetdeck #
@osvaldosousa RT @lmrobins Make own Twitter Search WebPart for #SharePoint http://snurl.com/e58cw found on Tweets Wiki! http://bit.ly/12uwZ0 #

Using the SharePoint wiki

Barry O'Gorman — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:24:56 +0000

We’ve been using the SharePoint wiki for some time to provide our KM platform within Ciall. Out of the box functionality may not be considered the most sophisticated – but we’ve found the product useable, useful and scalable.

EnduserSharePoint has a great review of the SharePoint WIKI: Wiki-in-the-Box – Is SharePoint Wiki Really that Bad?

The posting gives a good feel for the inherrent functionality of the WIKI as delivered and the additional functionality associated with its being part of SharePoint. Good article and goes some way to balancing the books.

Twitter updates (http://twitter.com/ideasfromciall) on 2009-04-06

Barry O'Gorman — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:00:00 +0000

twitter widget now installed on Ciall blog; weekly summary of al #
Twitter widget now installed on Ciall blog; weekly summary of tweets on ideasFromCiall being posted to blog #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-06

Barry O'Gorman — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:08:00 +0000

thinking about the great opportunities for BI using MOSS – now to include the functionality delivered by Microsoft in PPS #
Demonstrating use of twitter to a client #

SharePoint 14 expected soon

Osvaldo Sousa — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:14:32 +0000

While Microsoft has not announced an official release date for Office 14, the next version of SharePoint is expected to be out by the end of the year and according to rumours, the server version will be available only in 64 bit, which will require that many companies upgrade not only to a new software version but also in terms of hardware.

new launch: avinuon

Barry O'Gorman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:51:15 +0000

Nice piece from Steve Wheeler of the University of Plymouth.