MOSS is a rich server application for the enterprise that facilitates collaboration, provides full content management features, implements business processes, and provides access to information essential to organizational goals and processes. It provides an integrated platform to plan, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across and beyond the enterprise.

SharePoint Solution Architecture™ makes it possible to establish the foundation to deploy in a structured and rigorous manner vertical business solution.

The first step will be planning SharePoint to determine the details of your site and feature needs. These documents will help us to record information such as:

• Sites and site hierarchies
• Relationships between sites
• Features of sites
• Site customizations

We then will incorporate your site and feature planning decisions into a conceptual design document that:

• Defines the purpose of the solution you are planning
• Describes the implementation of the solution
• Provides data, flowcharts, illustrations, and other information needed to plan the solution deployment

Our consultant will then develop a set of documents that will help determine the implementation of your deployment. These documents will help us to capture the architecture such as:

• Deployment design
• Physical topologies
• Database design
• Security design
• Service-level agreements

Along with filling in the documentation, we will incorporate the deployment planning decisions into a design specification document that:

• Defines hardware requirements
• Describes the physical system design
• Provides data, diagrams, and other information useful to the team implementing the deployment