White Papers
8 Best Practices to Drive SharePoint User Adoption
One of the biggest challenges organizations have with SharePoint is its adoption. SharePoint will die on the vine if it’s not fed and cared for. This Northridge white paper details how a steady "best practices" diet of education, solution building, and metered rollout of capabilities will help drive successful use of SharePoint to solve business challenges.
SharePoint Governance Lifecycle Model
Organizations choose SharePoint as an enterprise collaboration, productivity, insight and analysis platform in order to drive business value. If SharePoint is a lever, then governance directs the force placed on that lever to achieve maximum leverage. In this white paper, Northridge introduces the five stages of its SharePoint Governance Lifecycle model.
10 Best Practices for SharePoint Collaboration
While SharePoint is a diverse platform, when many people think SharePoint they think collaboration, 1 of the most popular and powerful uses for Microsoft SharePoint Server. In this white paper, Northridge presents ten “best practices” for success in leveraging SharePoint for improved team collaboration in your organization.
BI for the Small and Mid-Size Enterprise
Technology has evolved to the point where Business Intelligence (BI) is now feasible for businesses of any size, leading to swifter insights, more reliable data for decisions, and rapid ROI. This Northridge white paper defines how Microsoft BI solutions can transform businesses of all sizes through improved business performance.
Enabling Enterprise Excellence with the True North Methodology™
The True North Methodology™ (or True North™) is a proprietary methodology framework developed by Northridge to govern the processes used to deliver on all customer projects and engagements. Northridge has developed and evolved this framework based on industry-standard best practices, decades of combined industry and technology experience, and knowledge gained from providing services to the real world since the inception of Northridge in 1999. In this white paper, we examine the Northridge True North Methodology™ framework and detail how True North™ is a balanced and comprehensive methodology for consistently delivering high-quality projects covering the full business and technology life cycle.
SharePoint Project & Program Management – Part 1
In this first installment of a three-part series on the benefits of deploying SharePoint for project management, this Northridge white paper delves into SharePoint's ability to foster collaboration by assisting with project administration, process management, transparency, and visibility.
SharePoint Project & Program Management – Part 2
In this second installment of a three-part series on the benefits of deploying SharePoint for project management, this Northridge white paper focuses on the power that SharePoint automated workflows can add to SharePoint collaboration capabilities by automating the collection and processing of data to enhance project performance.
SharePoint Project & Program Management – Part 3
In this third and final installment of a three-part series on the benefits of deploying SharePoint for project management, this Northridge white paper reveals how aggregated, synthesized project and program data can be presented to audiences across all levels resulting in a new level of project transparency and performance analysis.
Automated Release Management in a Multi-Customer, Multi-Project Environment
Northridge has always taken pride in a disciplined yet agile approach to configuration management. This Northridge white paper describes the build and deployment automation, continuous integration, and virtualized server environments that strengthen the Northridge configuration management foundation by improving on the efficiency, independence, and repeatability of Northridge’s development process thus benefitting Northridge clients.