SharePoint Application Lifecycle Management

Streamline Release Operations, Accelerate Productivity

Effective management of release operations is vital to a successful Microsoft SharePoint deployment. Without proper planning or control, errors or changes during the staging process can result in increased time-to-value, project delays, and poor application reliability. To fully leverage SharePoint for business success, organizations must have the means to streamline and automate the propagation of mission-critical server configurations, customizations, Solutions, and Designer elements throughout the testing, development, staging, and production environments.

Additionally, they need to maintain a clear and concise understanding of how their deployment will react under various usage and topology scenarios. And finally, they need the ability to efficiently architect Microsoft SharePoint environments in which to test and demonstrate candidate applications, initiatives, and platform configurations.

To ensure an efficient application lifecycle with regard to Microsoft SharePoint, organizations must be able to:

• Efficiently propagate customizations, Design elements, WFE configurations, and Solutions throughout the deployment

• Quickly stage customized testing environments in which to analyze and demonstrate potential configurations changes, add-ons, and customizations

• Simulate SharePoint behaviors and activities via testing environments to analyze how proposed configuration changes, topology architectures, add-ons, and customizations will react under production-grade conditions

The DocAve Strategy Suite meets these critical needs with a solution-set specifically developed to help Microsoft SharePoint administrators effectively manage deployment operations and conduct strategic platform planning. The Strategy Suite is comprised of three powerful modules.

DocAve Deployment Manager

Fully automate the management and propagation of all Front End components and customizations, SharePoint Solutions, and SharePoint Designer elements throughout testing, staging, development, and production environments. Streamline the application lifecycle by making the multi-phased delivery of new platform configurations and elements totally efficient and fully optimized.

USim

Run automated SharePoint usage simulations to obtain dynamic trending and capacity reports based on various platform activity scenarios. Leveraging USims customizable performance reports, SharePoint administrators can analyze how their deployment would perform under a variety of ‘real-world’ situations, including multiple-user access via different IP addresses and hyper-content and object proliferation.

SharePoint TEC

Quickly and easily create a customized, fully-populated test environment via simultaneous, automated upload of varied and unique SharePoint content. Template-based environment creation empowers SharePoint administrators to quickly stand-up a variety of test deployments to leverage in their testing initiatives.

Three powerful modules, one comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management solution for SharePoint.*

*Every module within the DocAve Strategy Suite can be purchased and deployed independently, so you can customize the Microsoft SharePoint application lifecycle management solution for your specific needs.

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