We recognise that many organisations have business needs that they want to address and may have identified SharePoint 2010 as part of the solution; however because they are not immersed in the detail of SharePoint it isn’t always clear what features they want, what the priorities are and what the information architecture and detailed design should be.
With many stakeholders involved and many choices to be made it can be difficult to make the rapid progress that is desired – too much haste leads to rushed decisions, too much planning and analysis leads to delay and a failure to get to grips with the solution.
Solution Accelerator and NHS SharePoint
Cloud2 adopt our Solution Accelerator approach: we commonly have a good idea about what makes up 80% of your solution since we have done it before. Instead of presenting your project team with a clean sheet of paper and telling you to describe what you want us to build, we do an early rollout of our NHS SharePoint Solution Accelerator, Hadron SA. This is a standard SharePoint deployment geared towards the needs of most trusts, with all the common structures, content types and features. It isn’t a finished solution, but it provides plenty for you to start to use, to learn how SharePoint works and what else you would like it to do for you. Then we fill in the gaps, enhance the functions and mould it to your needs.
The essence of Hadron SA is the rich Information Architecture, representing over a man years’ worth of development:
- Portal Areas – Major navigation and functional areas
- Information Archetypes – Where and how to locate content
- Content Types – Hierarchy of content definitions
- Metadata – Content description fields
This is supplemented with a set of powerful features such as faceted search, people search, tag clouds, Policies and Procedures management, News Centre and more.
Information Architecture hierachy
Solution Accelerator high level architecture
Home Page
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Branding
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Core message
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People Search
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Site Search
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News feeds
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Application and content sign posting
Document Management
- Unpublished document library
- Rich metadata for Policies & Procedures
- Enchanced enterprise faceted Search
- CUI Policies & Procedures
- Freedom of Information
- IG Toolkit
Performance
- CUI Clinical dashboard
- CUI Cardiology dashboard
- CUI Infection Control dashboard
- CUI Primary Care dashboard
Site Templates
- Intranet homepage including ”My Details”, People Search, NHS Evidence search components, as well as detailed Information Architecture
- Directorate, Department, Programme, Project templates
- Room & Resource Booking template
- Events Calendar template
- NHS SharePoint 2010 Help Template
The Cloud2 NHS SharePoint Solution Accelerator allows NHS trusts to get going with a functional SharePoint intranet or document management system early in the project while they learn and refine their longer term needs.
NHS SharePoint Solution Accelerator Features in Hadron SA
Hadron SA will help Trusts get up and running quickly while leaving room to then develop the specifics they desire. Hadron SA typically includes:
- NHS Intranet Information Architecture – Directorates, Programmes & Projects, Document Centre, Staff Zone, Performance, Knowledge
- Document Management – Metadata pre-built with NHS document types e.g. Policies & Procedures, NHS specific metadata e.g. CQC Outcomes/NHSLA and Policy review/retention
- Collaboration
- Directorate template, Team template and Project templates
- Meetings – custom Cloud2 solution for managing “Meetings” e.g. Board Meetings etc.
- Board assurance template
- Training course booking solution
- Vacancy Management template including recruitment tracker
- Room Booking solution
- e-Forms Library – Library of 25 forms (growing to 100 NHS forms during 2011)
- HR Pack – Scan paper HR records into secure employee folders with smart search
- Demonstrator site – New Starter with example new starter form
- Rollout – SharePoint day post project sign off for staff to attend a day of demonstrations, presentations of the solutions delivered
- NHS SharePoint training – 151 professional end/power user brief videos
