Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010 Implementations and Customizations

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizations resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

• Social Collaboration - Allows teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain tasks lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
• Portals - Create a personal portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user's profile.
• Enterprise Search - Quickly and easily find people, expertise, documents, records, and Web content.
• Business Process and Forms create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business process.
• Business Intelligence allows information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.

Laminar Consulting utilizes Microsoft software products and solutions to develop and implement the latest technology offerings for a variety of companies.

Laminar Consulting  custom application development services provide clients with increased functionality by identifying business goals and objectives through custom-built development projects using Microsoft’s .Net Technologies.

Our ability to harness emerging technology and integrate it with an organization's needs creates a competitive edge for our clients. Whether they are revenue growth, cost reduction, competitive advantage or an increase in productivity or efficiency Laminar Consulting custom application development services will assist you in your goals.

• Agile Development
• Service Oriented Architecture
• GeoSpatial Applications leveraging BingMaps
• WCF/WPF Development
• Silverlight Development
• eCommerce
• SharePoint 2010 Implementations and Customization
• Enterprise Applications Integration
• Mobile Applications
• Collaboration
• Workflows 

Laminar Consulting utilizes a proven Quality Assurance process that increases software quality, efficiency of delivery and speed to market while allowing flexibility to quickly respond to changing business needs. Laminar offers customized processes, methods and QA solutions specific to your project or IT department.

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Process Development

Laminar QA experts will assess your organizations current QA process and incorporate a knowledge base of best practices to identify areas for improvement and establish a new SQA process that will provide an organized quality guide of standards, processes, and procedures to produce, verify, and evaluate software projects and production support issues.

• Increases overall quality of software
• Clearly Identifies Project Milestones dates and deliverables
• Established standards support adherence to the process & facilitates clear communication
• Tools are implemented  for increased efficiency, greater collaboration & significant cost savings
• Comprehensive defect tracking facilitates improved metrics
• Increases speed of delivery while minimizing production issues or outages

Software Testing

Laminar’s QA experts will design, document and implement an overall test strategy and approach, test plan, test case writing and execution to achieve first in class test results. We proactively identify and mitigate Quality issues before they become project risks.

• Contributes to the overall success of project delivery on-time and within budget.
• Proper test coverage certifies that Business Requirements are met.
• Provides key metrics to determine the health and condition of software, resources, and requirements.
• Clearly defined entrance and exit criteria guards that software is not overtested while achieving a high level of confidence in quality.

Test Outsourcing

QA deliverables and resources are fully managed by Laminar taking the burden off your IT staff. The QA effort for your project is fully managed from beginning to end by one point of contact at Laminar. Your Laminar QA Manager is local so that important meetings can be attended in person.

Key Benefits

• Quick and easy access to staff for short or long term projects with pre-trained QA experts on demand.
• Save time and money by reducing overhead on office space, staffing, and managing FTE resources.
• Frees up resources for business expansion.

From small, mid to enterprise level projects Laminar Consulting provides you with highly skilled project management professionals whose objective is to deliver your project on-time and within budget for any project size.

Laminar Consulting utilizes a proven Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) that ensures efficiency and can be customized to address the requirements of your project. No project is the same so Laminar’s Project Management Services offer the following expertise that can be tailored to meet your specific needs: 

• Resource Planning & Management – Throughout the life of the project, a Laminar Project Manager will efficiently manage resources with the right skill set to expedite the delivery of your project.
• Project Schedule Creation & Management – Developing a project schedule is somewhat of an art and our project managers work to leverage the talents of the team across all tasks thereby increasing efficiencies wherever possible by ensuring that resources are used to their full potential. By properly managing resources and the project schedule, costs are kept within budget and project deadlines are met.
• A Communications Plan is established to ensure all stakeholders, project team members, and end users are appropriately informed.
• Risk Management – Laminar Project Managers proactively identify and mitigate any risks to the success of the project and keep all stakeholders informed on the progress.
• Weekly Project Status Reports – A weekly report will be submitted to you communicating the project team’s continual progress.  Schedule information, identified issues and risks, testing summary statistics and next steps will be noted to keep you informed throughout the life of the project.
• Deployment Plan & Management – With assistance of the development team, the Laminar Project Manager will create a detailed deployment plan ensuring that the roll out of the technical solution is professional and efficient with little to no downtime for existing systems and business operations.
• Lessons Learned Meeting & Project Documentation – All project deliverables and artifacts are submitted to your organization for reference. A “Lessons Learned” meeting is held to review the success of the project and the results of the meeting are published for future reference.
• Post-Production Support – After the successful implementation of the technical solution, the Laminar Project Manager will manage post-production support.  The level of post-production support can be personalized to meet the needs of your organization.

Project & Program Management Staffing Services
The overall project and project resources are fully managed by Laminar taking the burden off your IT staff. The project management effort is fully managed from beginning to end by one point of contact at Laminar. Your Laminar Project Manager is local so that important meetings can be attended in person.

Key Benefits

• Quick and easy access to staff for short or long term projects with professional Project and Program Managers on demand.
• Save time and money by reducing overhead on office space, staffing, and managing FTE resources.
• Frees up resources for business expansion.

Training Services
Whether training is for one individual or several hundred employees in multiple locations, Laminar Training Services enables end users to quickly become productive which positively impacts the bottom line by developing core business competencies. Laminar Training Professionals empower users to take full advantage of the technical solutions features and functionality from the start.