Oakwood and Bamboo Solutions Partner for Collaborative SharePoint Offering 

 
3/31/2008 
Oakwood Systems Group, Inc. and Bamboo Solutions, a leading global provider of Web Parts, Solution Accelerators, and custom solutions for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SharePoint), have partnered to create a collaborative offering which will combine Oakwood’s SharePoint development expertise with Bamboo’s suite of SharePoint software.  The partnership gives Oakwood the ability to offer Bamboo’s SharePoint software in conjunction with any customer SharePoint solutions. 
    
For organizations looking for comprehensive control over the storage, security, distribution, and reuse of documents and other electronic content, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers the ability to create internal and external websites where users can store documents, contacts, and calendars, as well as create wikis, blogs, and social groups.  The end result is a central storage location of information that allows users to efficiently find, share, and manage information across organizational boundaries, optimizes interaction of people, business data, and processes, fosters enterprise-wide access to one consistent version of information, secures integration of members from external organizations, and gives IT professionals a single integrated platform for managing intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the organization. 
  
Bamboo Solutions’ specializations in creating Web Parts, Solution Accelerators, and custom development solutions for SharePoint enable organizations to extend their SharePoint platforms for user self-service, rapid prototyping, point-solution integration, and high productivity portals.  According to Bamboo, “Our experience in helping organizations build SharePoint portal solutions, has shown us that our clients are following a similar learning curve when using a new technology; starting off with a few simple applications and primarily using SharePoint straight, 'out of the box'. As users learn what is possible and IT learns how quickly Web Parts let them deliver solutions, the demand for customized features and enhancements begins to grow, as well as the complexity of managing data, sites and users.” 
 
Oakwood and Bamboo Solutions’ partnership offers a SharePoint solution that gives customers access to the full breadth of the tool’s portal and website capabilities.  Through Oakwood’s demonstrated experience with SharePoint and Bamboo’s SharePoint software, which extends and enhances the functionality of the tool’s applications, the offering will maximize a customer’s SharePoint site and minimize the development time, effort, and cost needed for delivery.