We live in an information age. But raw data does not help you make sound business decisions. You need a high tech tool that can collaborate, process and analyze relevant information through out the organization, so that you can use it to get the work done faster and more efficiently.

CyberianSoft is proud to announce the completion of yet another SharePoint Application. SharePoint is a new and fast growing Microsoft based technology, typically used for collaboration of services and as information portal for info exchange between different departments and functions within an organization.

Every CyberianSoft SharePoint application is user friendly and was specifically built to enable non technical personnel to configure and use it on a daily basis. Furthermore, what makes CyberianSoft stand out from its competition when it comes to SharePoint applications is our ability to create custom web parts. These custom web parts are easy integrated with SharePoint and other applications and technologies (like CRM, accounting software, etc.) and are presented as highly visual, dashboard-like information. Out customers praise these applications for user friendliness and ability to integrate and present various information in one place.

While the business challenges for IT have not changed dramatically in the past several years, the shift in business climate has impacted the way companies are addressing these challenges. Workers are under increasing pressure to produce more results with fewer resources. While a portion of their work is still done alone, their success increasingly depends on effective collaboration and networking.

Businesses are also changing. They are more dispersed geographically. As a result, work is increasingly distributed among different entities, which have to be coordinated in order to be effective. The reality of meeting in person is becoming more and more difficult; individuals are constantly demanding access to the information and tools that they need to conduct their business; teams are looking for ways to work more effectively together. In this environment, IT has to address productivity on all levels.

Microsoft's SharePoint technology is not the only one which addresses these issues, but it is one of the most popular and widely available on the market today. Please review the successful experience of various companies in different industries using SharePoint.

Leading Medical Device Company Improves Communication and Productivity with Portal Solution.
By Microsoft Corp.
The company's sales force faced an increasing flood of unsearchable product information on the intranet, and its operating departments needed to streamline collaboration and content management.

Consulting Firm Connects Teams and Generates New Business with Microsoft Office System
By Microsoft Corp.
Capgemini frequently organizes teams by objectives and skills, not by location. Geographically dispersed teams needed a way to team members to share knowledge and information to accuire new business.

Museum Reduces Content Delivery Time from Days to Minutes
By Microsoft Corp.
In June of 2003, the museum opened its most ambitious exhibition, Space Odyssey. To create an engaging and dynamic experience, the goal was to find new content management and collaboration solutions.

In this issue we will discuss the use of SharePoint / Dashboard technology in day-to-day business management.
SharePoint plays crucial role in creating information-rich digital dashboards and offers an effective and inexpensive way to report business performance. SharePoint users can typically modify these reports within few minutes if the data is available. With dashboards, managers can instantly have the information they need, when they need it, in the exact format they can understand easily.

Maximize Business Performance: Industry Dashboards to the Rescue
By Craig Schiff
One of the large business performance management (BPM) vendors recently ran a "Dare to Dashboard" challenge. The point they sought to make was that with their software, setting up a dashboard is quick and easy. That may be true, but setting up a dashboard is not the difficult part. Populating it with relevant metrics is a different story. A dashboard is mainly an interface, a display vehicle for your scorecard of key metrics. Figuring out what to include on your scorecard - now that's tough.

Dashboard Confusion
By Stephen Few, Edited by Margy Ross
Delve beneath the marketing hype if you want to gain a clear understanding of BI dashboards.

Business-Intelligence Dashboards Get Democratic
By Mark Leon
Desktop business-intelligence displays are moving from the executive suite to the cubicles, where the ROI is even better.

Data Visualization: Dashboard Design: Taking a Metaphor Too Far
By Stephen Few
Visual metaphors based on familiar objects and activities often serve as the design theme for software interfaces... Once you've learned how to use the software, however, the metaphor rarely continues to matter. From that point on, all that matter are the merits of the interface for effective and efficient use.