SharePoint 2010 - Redland City Council are ready..
For some time now our friends at Microsoft have been working on the next version of SharePoint. This version has been under development for close to three years and in November 2009 they released the BETA version for developers to review. Web Design Magic have been anticipating this release for many years and boy are we impressed! The new version promises many enhancements and brand new features that we have been testing in the BETA version.
Web Design Magic have been lucky enough to work closely with Redland City Council to begin their SharePoint 2010 implementation. Tracey Gee explains: “Redland City Council is a council that is on the cutting edge. SharePoint 2010 is a natural progression for us as we currently deliver our public facing Internet and manage our Intranet on SharePoint 2007. We have teamed with Web Design Magic to produce our next website on this new SharePoint 2010 platform. We have found the BETA version to be stable and most definitely a suitable development platform to prepare for the upcoming final release version later this year.”
Web Design Magic has also begun engaging with hosting providers like WebCentral, a key brand of the Melbourne IT Group.
WebCentral has been working closely with Microsoft for some time, to allow its SMB customers to experience all the benefits of the SharePoint platform, without the expense and the challenges associated with the customers acquiring their own server infrastructure and licensing. WebCentral offers a Managed SharePoint service where WebCentral look after the technological, operational and security aspects of deployment and on-going running of the service, for a small monthly payment.
For more information on Microsoft’s new SharePoint 2010 offering please visit http://www.webdesignmagic.com.au/SharePoint-Customizations/SharePoint-2010.aspx or call us on 1300 308 210.
About Redland City Council -
www.redland.qld.gov.au
Redland City is a Local Government Area of South East Queensland, spread along the southern coast of Moreton Bay covering 537 square kilometres. Between the cities of Brisbane to the north, Logan to the west, and the Gold Coast to the south, it is part of the fastest growing area in Queensland and one of the fastest growing in Australia.
The City had an estimated population of 127,627 in 2006, four times the number of residents it had as a rural community 25 years earlier. An increasing proportion of these new residents are retirees from the southern states of Australia.