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Microsoft® Office Groove® is a client-based software application designed to provide a dependable collaboration setting for information workers in a wide range of environments - corporate, small business, or nonprofit; at the office, en route, or in-the-field. Groove relay servers help make this possible by supporting virtual peer-to-peer connectivity regardless of network interruptions, heavy traffic, or client online status.
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To meet the industry needs, Almalak Information Technology is available for development and deployment of custom tools and solutions for organizations that have elected to deploy Groove in their enterprise. We work with both your IT and Line-of-Business managers to ensure that custom developments (i.e. tools, workspace templates, and components) not only work with the technical backend of your business but also integrate successfully with existing business methods and processes. Symbiant Group is also available for helping software vendors port their existing applications into Groove friendly interfaces
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Custom developments that are tailored to an individual
organization's needs will enable line-of-business staff to take
advantage of the productivity enhancing features of Groove in a
meaningful way.
Custom developments for Groove can include:
Custom Deployments
Our
Groove deployment services are structured to meet the needs of Small
and Medium size businesses that would like to deploy Groove within
their organizations but whose deployment budgets falls outside of the
interest of larger Groove Solution Providers.
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See Microsoft Office Groove 2007 in action. This demo shows how Groove 2007 helps you and your team complete projects on time and within budget by making it easier to share information and work together—anywhere, anytime, with anyone. |
Although not required for a Groove deployment, Almalak IT believes comprehensive Groove focused workflow and best practices consulting can insure that your organization leverages all of the benefits that Groove and Groove based tools can bring to your organization. Many companies have documented workflow and best practices that pertain to their existing technology and business behavior. In many cases, existing workflow and best practices need only be modified to adhere to the enhanced team interactions that can occur with solutions like Groove. Groove based workflow and best practices consulting can insure that all need functionality and individuals responsible in the business workflow chain have been incorporated into deployment planning and that the entire team will benefit and leverage the inherent productivity and communication gains.
Groove seat and enterprise server software deployment
Almalak IT is intimately familiar with the Groove Enterprise edition client and it's complimenting centralized server components: Groove Enterprise Relay Server, Groove Enterprise Management Server, and Groove Enterprise Integration Server.
- Deploying a Groove Enterprise Relay Server internally enables an IT manager to feel secure that local and inter-enterprise Groove traffic is being managed in-house. Business professionals can feel secure that internal communications and data traffic stay internal to the organization and are forwarded in a timely manner.
- Integrating a Groove Enterprise Management Server allows business professionals to enjoy the benefits and ease of use of a decentralized collaboration environment while enabling security focused IT managers with centralized overview and control features.
- Installing a Groove Enterprise Integration Server will empower Groove users to leverage previously deployed systems and technology into their Groove Workspaces. Business professionals will be able to incorporate non-Groove centralized systems (i.e. CRM, ERP, SCM...) into Groove Workspaces so that team members can share these information resources. IT managers will be able to effectively connect disparate business systems under the Groove Workspace umbrella to fully unleash the power of previously purchased systems.
To fully integrate Groove into your workplace, it is suggested that Groove be integrated with your existing enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, SCM, and LDAP. Imagine being able to review ERP tools securely within Groove with workspace participants without the hassle of having a central IT staff assign rights for every potential user. Groove can also be extended to reach out to wireless devices and PDAs for on-the-go connectivity. A field team can now enter data into their wireless PDA and have it published immediately to a Groove workspace for other in-office participants to work on.
Services Approach
Almalak IT utilizes standard project management methodologies to ensure that custom developments and deployments are executed in a timely fashion and in adherence with agreed to budgets and business needs. Before any hands-on software coding begins, we work tightly with IT and Business managers to document and account for all technical and business needs. Our working relationship with IT managers ensures that projects will fit an organizations existing technology roadmap, while our attention to users needs with a focus on user interface and workflow steps ensures that custom developments will actually benefit daily line-of-business work.