European SharePoint Community Award Winners 2015
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1. Best Office 365 Add In – FlowForma
Established in 2012, FlowForma supports organisations in adhering to consistent business process management, improved organisational efficiency and productivity through innovative technology. Headquartered in Dublin with offices in London and Lithuania, FlowForma is a subsidiary of Irish IT solutions provider, Ergo.
Dedicated to helping its customers in making the complex simple, May 2013 saw FlowForma launch its first product FlowForma BPM, a self-service business process management tool sitting on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. As a hybrid solution, FlowForma can help you operate on-premise or via Office 365. FlowForma BPM has developed a strong customer base across Ireland and the UK including Kings Hospital, Total Produce and Grant Thornton. Find out more by visiting www.flowforma.com.
2. Best Office 365 Solution – Beezy
Beezy provides the most robust and comprehensive social collaboration solution for the SharePoint platform, whether online or on prem. As demonstrated through this customer deployment:
- Beezy is the only Microsoft partner able to migrate ALL social artifacts from competitor social platforms, such as IBM Connections, Jive, and Sitrion.
- Beezy provides fully-customized Office 365 environments, giving our customers the rich visual experiences they want and need.
- Beezy extends the native SharePoint collaboration experience through blogs, wikis, town halls, knowledge centers, Q&A, forums, gamification tools, and more.
- Beezy provides all of this as fully integrated solutions within the SharePoint platform and the Office Graph, providing a unified view of this data and a centralized management experience using the Office 365 Admin Center. Find out more by visiting www.beezy.net
4. Best Mobile Solution – GRADIENT
GRADIENT is an innovative leader in Document Capture in SharePoint, allowing to scan from virtually all devices, easy importation into SharePoint Libraries and superior OCR indexing for immediate inventory, search, and retrieval. GRADIENT helps enterprises smash the scan & capture barrier, easily handle batches of mixed document types, offer enhanced document recognition, and mobility.With three offices in the,USA,Europe and Australia.
GRADIENT are dedicated to their customers reaching out to them worldwide.Document Capture is in GRADIENT’s DNA – since their first customer scanned a document with one of our solutions nearly 20 years ago and are winners of the Best Mobile Solution at the European SharePoint Conference 2014 with GScan Online and GScan Mobile. Find out more by visiting www.gradientecm.com.
5. Best Social Solution – Dell Software
- Copying and pasting manually, which is tedious and time-consuming with no guarantee of maintaining content fidelity, metadata or permissions.
- Custom scripting, which is a long, complex, error-prone and unpredictable process that requires specialized and expensive development resources.
In addition, Migration Manager for Enterprise Social takes Dell Software’s Office 365 migration and management portfolio to another level and further proves Dell’s commitment to helping customers fully leverage their Office 365 subscription plan and maximize ROI.
One of the big stories coming out of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is that Microsoft sales and channel partners will now be incented on Office 365 usage/consumption and adoption. There are so many Office 365 subscriptions not activated, and it’s a problem for Microsoft because many customers may not renew subscriptions for solutions they don’t use.
Dell is now uniquely positioned to help Microsoft and its partners increase adoption for the entire Office 365 platform. Dell combines award-winning solutions for Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Yammer with world-class experience, a vast partner ecosystem and global 24/7 support to round out the most complete, end-to-end Office 365 solution. With Dell customers get pre-migration readiness, migration and coexistence covering almost any source and target scenario you can imagine and post-migration management solutions that help with reporting and analytics, disaster recovery, compliance and auditing and security. Find out more at: http://software.dell.com.
6. Most Innovative Cloud/Hybrid Solution – BA Insight
BA Insight’s solution is highly innovative and brings leading edge capabilities to the market.
No other solution provides the breath of connectivity, the depth of capabilities, or the flexibility to handle such a variety of configurations and requirements. Examples of unique innovations:
- The ability to merge results seamlessly into a single virtual index
- Plug-compatible APIs for CEWS and the Search OM that allow other products and customizations to work seamlessly
- High-throughput, light-touch methods for connectivity across a wide range of systems
- Full integration of Elasticsearch and SharePoint
- Add-in model for adding metadata to O365 including the Office Graph
BA Insight have worked intimately with Microsoft within TAP programs for the Cloud SSA, the Office Graph, and O365 APIs to ensure that we are leveraging the latest Microsoft innovations and providing a robust solution early. The company have released it in lockstep with Microsoft’s releases so that customers could benefit from it as soon as possible. Microsoft has cited this as an innovative partner solution and states, “With BA Insight’s products, Office 365 customers can now take advantage of our cloud experiences for all of their content.”We have paid attention to the concerns of our EC customers with this solution, tackling the problems they have brought to us around distributed configurations, administration, data residency, privacy, and compliance- ensuring that they can solve them with our product.Many SharePoint customers are struggling to adapt to Microsoft’s “Cloud First/Cloud Only” model. BA Insight believe their Connectivity for Hybrid SharePoint solution will help their clients to leapfrog ahead. Find out more by visiting bainsight.com.
