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Top 10 Reasons to Use SharePoint

JeremiahT — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:03:16 GMT

Improve productivity with technology that empowers your users to collaborate effectively
Easily manage the use of files among users without losing the integrity of your documents
Simplified navigation and views minimizes the learning curve and gets users productive in minutes
Use Self Site Creation to instantly create new custom sites tailored to your business processes or sets of tasks
Quickly create a team website without a web master, just a couple clicks of a mouse
Reduce the complexity of securing business information with easy to set permissions, memberships, and storage limits
Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources such as document or item level permissions
Share your files with document storage and retrieval features, such as, check-in/check-out functionality, version history, custom metadata, and customizable views
Manage every site and administrative setting using a web browser, without the need to install additional software
Windows SharePoint Services exposes a common framework for document management and collaboration from which flexible and scalable web applications can be built

More Collaboration Means More Productivity

JeremiahT — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:02:02 GMT

Ever have a hard time finding the document, spreadsheets, or presentations you need to work with since you don’t know who has the file or which computer it’s on? Do you ever wish there was a lightning fast way to search every document in your organization no matter where they are? Do you ever need to work on the same document at the same time as a colleague?

If you said yes to any of these questions you need Windows SharePoint Services. You will be surprised at the dramatic improvement in productivity when your team uses SharePoint as an internal portal for collaboration. Finding documents is a snap with the ability to search across files like searching with Google across the internet. SharePoint is designed from the ground up for sharing documents and even working on them at the same time with other team members, as if you’re looking over your colleague’s shoulder. And since it’s integrated directly with Microsoft Office, users will be up and running in no time all within the environment they are familiar with.

Collaboration technologies like SharePoint are quickly replacing the traditional file server since they offer the same functionality and a whole lot more. To learn how you can bring organization and efficiency to your team collaboration, contact Vesigo Studios for more information or visit our web site for more SharePoint information.

Five Reasons Your Team Should be Utilizing SharePoint

Jennifer — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:26:53 GMT

Easily manage documents and quality control - Enhanced features include the option to require document checkout before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security.
Help your team stay on task - A variety of communication features let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, such as announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards.
Stimulate creative interaction - Forums for brainstorming, building knowledge bases, or gathering information in a format that’s easy to edit with templates for implementing blogs and “wikis” (websites that can be quickly edited by team members without special technical knowledge).
Get your users up to speed quickly - Integration with familiar tools, especially programs in the Microsoft Office system, makes it easy for users to get up to speed quickly. For example, users can create workspaces, post and edit documents, and view and update calendars on SharePoint sites, all while working within Microsoft Office system programs such as Outlook, Word and PowerPoint.
Provide a cost-effective foundation for you Web-based applications - The Windows SharePoint Services platform allows you to build rich, flexible, and scalable Web-based applications and Internet sites specific to your needs.

Enhanced Collaboration Means More Productivity

Jennifer — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:24:07 GMT

You’ve emailed the new brochure you’ve been working on back and forth at least a dozen times. Now you’ve lost track of the version that has the latest revisions. It’s time to start over - so much for collaboration!

There is a better way to collaborate - a way that enhances productivity. Windows SharePoint Services takes file sharing to a whole new level. Windows SharePoint Services provides your team with a single workspace to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions. Users can find and share data, with the added assurance that this data will not be lost.

Read the Windows Sharepoint Overview to learn about the benefits for individuals, teams and managers.

Benefits of a Hosted CRM

Jennifer — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:46:05 GMT

CRM software is in demand by businesses of all sizes. Hosted solutions enable businesses of all sizes to access sophisticated customer relationship management tools for a reasonable price that includes technical assistance.

Choices in the hosted CRM market have been somewhat limited to generic one-size-fits-all solutions without the functionality to support unique business requirements. In contrast, Vesigo CRM offers a broad scope of architectural options to provide a holistic platform for communication and collaboration.

IT costs can place a real burden on your business. Vesigo is dedicated to providing their customers with quality solutions that eliminate unpredictable IT expenses. This allows you to redirect IT resources, reduce unanticipated support costs and accurately plan your budget. For a complete cost analysis, contact Vesigo Studios today. You may be surprised at how much we can reduce your current IT spending while providing you with the latest business solutions.

Ensuring the Right Fit for Your Company

Jennifer — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:45:51 GMT

Many companies are concerned about the perceived complexity of implementing a CRM system. Vesigo CRM enables organizations to take advantage of sophisticated customer acquisition by providing integration and customization that will adapt to your business.

Integration
Vesigo CRM will integrate with Microsoft products and services that you use daily such as Outlook and Excel, as well as Microsoft Business Solutions ERM applications. Vesigo CRM also includes the ability to integrate with third party applications giving you total flexibility. Our experienced and certified developers are here to offer you the technical assistance to adapt CRM to the way you need it to work. This can include integration with existing software such as QuickBooks, Great Plains Accounting, Act!, and SharePoint.

Customization
Since no two businesses use the same processes or track the same customer data, the ability to customize is essential. With Vesigo CRM forms, relationship links, customer views and more can easily be designed and modified to your specifications. The Microsoft CRM database schema can easily be modified to fit your needs. Forms for areas such as accounts, contacts, opportunities, cases, and orders can be customized to allow you to manage the exact data you need. Views across the solution can be modified so that users can see critical information at a glance and sort data according to specific needs.

We’ll assist you through every step as you implement the latest CRM technology. Contact us today for more information on integration and customization options.

What is CRM and Why Do I Need It?

Jennifer — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:45:27 GMT

CRM or Customer Relationship Management isn’t a product, it’s a business strategy companies use to manage their relationships with customers. CRM software gives companies the necessary tools to provide exceptional one-on-one customer service.

In today’s competitive business environment, mistreated customers can easily find other vendors or suppliers that are eager to replace you. If you can offer your customers a consistently personalized experience, they are much more likely to value their relationship with you and continue dealing with your company. As you business grows, CRM is a important ingredient for keeping your customer’s experience just as pleasant and personal as when you were smaller.

As its name implies, customer relationship management is designed to make each and every customer’s experience better. It also recognizes that a customer’s relationship is not generally a onetime thing, but something that spans months and years. Since a typical customer might interact with your business 50 to 100 times in the course of your relationship, it’s obvious that CRM is the easiest way to manage that process.

Learn more about the value of CRM at our website.

Give visitors instant self service with a knowledge base

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:45:27 GMT

In the past it used to take a considerable amount of time to find answers to questions in general. But with the Internet, people are now finding answers to questions in less than 5 minutes. Take advantage of this trend by posting your support documents and other articles in a knowledgebase.

Using knowledgebase makes it easy for your business to publish documents, articles, or frequently asked questions you want to share with customers and visitors to your site. As the knowledgebase grows, it will become an invaluable resource to both customers and employees who need to find answers to questions that have already been handled.

You can get a knowledgebase implemented on your web site in no time with a powerful knowledgebase add-on from Vesigo Studios. Contact Vesigo Studios today to get this feature setup on your web site today.

Using Live Support from Vesigo

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:44:06 GMT

Live Support from Vesigo will greatly enhance the customer service you provide from your website. When visitors come to your website they will see a live support button on your site, reassuring them that they will have easy access to a real person. Your ability to provide your customers with answers to their questions in real-time will increase their level of satisfaction.

You can provide sales information and support for your customers instantly via your website with Vesigo's Live Support option. Live Support allows a customer or potential to instantly text message personnel in your company and request information or support. This is an important part of any company's website and is becoming an expected feature by many users.

Vesigo Live Support features the following:

Users get a clean, fast chat window without any messy ActiveX controls to install.
If no one is available to chat with a visitor, they can leave a message using the contact form.
Employees are alerted to visitors and requests for a chat, which they can choose to accept, reject, or transfer.
Canned replies and the ability to push out links make it quick to reply to customers with common questions.
Your sales team can proactively invite the customer to chat about your products or offer to answer questions.
The tracking component will help you to understand more about your site. You'll be able to see where visitors are going - which pages are holding their attention and which ones aren't.

Live Support saves time and money while providing your customers with instant, high-quality service. To learn more visit our website. Feel free to use our online live support with any questions!

Enrich your website with interactive tools

Jennifer — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:42:33 GMT

In recent years, web sites have become much more interactive. Instead of just displaying static text and images, sites now interact with users and in the case of business sites have brought the visitor much closer to real-time company resources. For instance, it’s very common to log into your account, get an answer to a support question via a knowledgebase, and reach someone for live support.

The value of having these interactive features on your web site extends beyond just saving your business time and money on support calls. This engenders confidence in your company as a whole and drives traffic to your site as visitors begin to trust your site as a good resource for knowledge and support.

Vesigo is happy to offer such add-ons that will instantly add these rich, interactive features to your site.

How to start using Vesigo Hosted Exchange today

Jennifer — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:13:37 GMT

Would you like to see how Vesigo Hosted Exchange works? More information on the features and benefits of Vesigo Hosted Exchange is available on our website including a demonstration account utilizing Outlook Web Access. Feel free to contact us with questions or to get your Exchange account set-up today.

Is Vesigo Hosted Exchange right for you?

Jennifer — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:10:29 GMT

Yes if…you want to work from anywhere at anytime.
Vesigo Hosted Exchange gives you full access to all of your e-mail folders, contacts, calendars, and files from Microsoft Outlook or your Internet browser anywhere, anytime. Any changes made to your e-mails, contacts, calendar and files in any medium are kept up to date when accessed.

Take advantage of Windows Mobile–based devices to stay on top of things while away from your computer. E-mail messages, contacts, schedules, and attachments are at your fingertips when you utilize Vesigo Hosted Exchange with your wireless device.

Yes if…you want to increase your productivity.
Exchange allows you to share your calendar with your coworkers so meetings can be scheduled within seconds. Administrative assistants can update appointments on other users' calendars which then will be automatically synchronized whether the users are in the office or not.

Unwanted junk mail can cause a loss of productivity. Exchange from Vesigo comes with an advanced filter to delete the unwanted messages before they get to your mailbox.

Another tool included with Vesigo Hosted Exchange is the ability to send faxes from Outlook, the Web, or even your handheld device, just as easily as you can send an email.

Yes if…you want to save money.
Save thousands of dollars with Vesigo Hosted Exchange. No need to buy licenses, create backups, run antivirus software, and pay technicians to setup and maintain it on an ongoing basis.

Yes if…you want your information to be secure.
Feel secure with protection against viruses - e-mail is the number one method that viruses use to spread. We perform automatic virus checking of all inbound and outbound e-mails and their attachments. You can also feel confident that your valuable company data is in a secure datacenter that is backed up daily.

Why companies use Exchange for collaboration

Jennifer — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:09:06 GMT

Exchange is being used by businesses large and small to increase productivity and collaboration. Instant 24 hour access to e-mails, contacts, and calendars has become crucial to the day-to-day operation of business. Exchange has given workers the ability to be more productive and in control of when and how they communicate.

Workers regularly utilize Exchange to work at home, in satellite offices, at customer sites, or anywhere else with Internet access. This is especially helpful for business travel. For example, when on the airplane business travelers continue working offline until their next opportunity to reconnect and then the latest data is instantly synchronized.

Exchange enhances collaboration between co-workers. Assistants have access to updated calendars that they can add, change, and delete appointments on. Across the company files, e-mails, contacts and calendars are easily shared through MS Outlook.

How to Improve Search Engine Placement

JeremiahT — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:31:48 GMT

Ideally, your web site will be much more traffic if you can successfully get it to appear in the top 10 results returned by a search engine. But with so many web sites out there battling for your visitors, how can you improve the chances that you will start to appear at the top of the list?

Each search engine, such as Google and MSN, are a little different in how they catalog and rank your web site. Here are a few suggestions:

Be specific. The worse thing you can do on your site is be like everyone else. That makes you blend in, instead of standing out. So use words and phrases that are very specific and peculiar to your site’s content. Be sure to mention the local names, such as the state and city you’re located in. That will ensure you get pushed to the top if someone includes the name of your town in their search query.

Be smart with keywords. A well designed web page will have hidden in the HTML a meta tag that contains a list of keywords to which search engines can look. This list of words should be carefully selected to match the subject of your web site. But just putting a list of keywords in your web page is not enough. Search engines like Google will all but ignore your list of keywords unless they also appear in the content of the web page. For instance, if you include the word “cookie” as a keyword and yet your page is only about brownies, with no mention of cookie, you can be pretty sure that Google will ignore the page. So be sure to sync your list of keywords to make frequent appearances in your web pages title, body, image captions, and even URL.

Choose a good title. The title of your web page, which is defined in the <title> tag, should be chosen well. Make sure to use words that specifically relate to the page as most search engines will use the words in title as keywords for cataloging your site. For instance, instead of “Vacation Info”, try a title like this: Affordable Family Vacations in Ashland, Oregon.

Built in benefits of Vesigo filtering

Jennifer — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:17:09 GMT

With fraudulent, inappropriate and offensive emails being delivered in vast quantities every day, an anti-spam solution is vital to your company. Spam wastes time and resources, and can also be dangerous. Vesigo Studios filters all mail traveling through our server and eliminates the need to install, update and constantly tweak anti-spam software on each desktop.

Vesigo Studios spam filtering requires no configuration on your part, and very low false positives through its automatic whitelist. We constantly tune the system to be able to adapt to current trends and improve spam detection. Vesigo Studios spam filtering also detects and blocks dangerous identity theft phishing emails. In addition Vesigo Studios offers a number of email management tools such automatic disclaimers, email list server, server-based auto replies and downloading of outside accounts to your Vesigo Hosted Exchange. Contact Vesigo Studios for more information.