Effective
information sharing and collaboration is rapidly
becoming a strategic platform advantage, but that
advantage can be compromised if collaboration technologies
are deployed in a piecemeal fashion.

Our Hosted Windows SharePoint
Services v3.0 platform provides the following advantages:

Fast time-to-market functionality, assuring
you a quick, cost-effective deployment that can
be integrated into daily business workflows in
no time.

Incremental deployment options, enabling
you to implement collaboration capabilities within
your organization’s timeframe and budget.

Easy and cost-effective extensibility, enabling
you to build organization-specific solutions and
work with well-managed, hosted services connecting
customers, partners, and suppliers.

Integration with familiar tools, enabling
users to quickly and easily share information and
collaborate with peers.

Organization-wide standards, providing
persistent security, management, and integration
on a scalable platform.

1. Hosted Windows SharePoint Services
   v3.0 Services takes file sharing to a new level.

   Instead of just dumping files into directories,
   Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services
   supplies Web sites with document storage and
   retrieval with check-in and check-out functionality,
   version history, custom metadata, and flexible,
   customizable views. Users can find and share
   data, with the added assurance that data will
   not be lost.

2. You can share many kinds of information.

   Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 sites store
   event calendars, contacts, Web links, discussions,
   issues lists, announcements, and much more.
   By using Hosted Windows SharePoint Services
   v3.0 Services, you can create smart places
   that help your users share information and
   get work done, not just a place to save files.

3. Users get the authority, flexibility,
   and customization they need.

   You can grant users the ability to create sites,
   allow them to control site membership, monitor
   site usage directly, and moderate content submissions.
   Users can even create site templates and share
   them with one another, reusing customized, proven
   site solutions.

4. IT gets the management tools it needs.

   Despite the authority delegated to users, Hosted
   Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services also
   enables you to track which sites are created,
   who owns them, how long a site has gone unused,
   and so on. You can enforce quotas for sites,
   users, and storage; block users from adding
   specific file types to sites; and automatically
   delete sites that are unused for long periods
   of time.

5. Hosted Windows SharePoint Services
   v3.0 Services has over 60 pre-made application
   templates.

   You can deploy Hosted Windows SharePoint Services
   v3.0 Services in any way that works best for
   your organization. groupSPARK provides you with
   the option to use application templates to speed
   up the process of integrating Windows SharePoint
   Services v3.0 into your workflow. All templates
   provided are fully customizable.

6. If you want to start small, Hosted
   Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services from
   groupSPARK.com will meet your needs and grow
   with you.

   Despite the fact that it was engineered to scale
   to large enterprise deployments, Hosted Windows
   SharePoint Services v3.0 Services is perfect
   for small business, departmental, or pilot environments.
   groupSPARK.com’s flexible pricing makes it easy
   for you to start with small deployments and scale
   upwards as you see fit.

7. You can enhance your Windows SharePoint
   Services v3.0 sites using Web Parts.

   Site owners and users can add the Web Parts you
   provide to their site pages, adding new features
   to the sites they already use. ASP.NET developers
   can write Web Parts to provide data access, Web
   services, and many other applications and content
   to Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 sites.

8. You can manage Windows Windows SharePoint
   Services v3.0 Services the way you want.

   You can manage and configure Hosted Windows SharePoint
   Services v3.0 Services from day one by using
   a Web browser or command-line utilities. This
   makes possible an unlimited number of customizable
   solutions. Hosted Windows SharePoint Services
   v3.0 Services will adjust to your work flow so
   you will not have to make any changes in your
   daily business operations to accommodate Windows
   SharePoint Services v3.0.

9. You can use Microsoft Office System
   2003 as a powerful set of collaboration tools.

   Thanks to the Web services provided by Hosted
   Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services, programs
   in the Microsoft Office System-including Microsoft
   Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft
   Office PowerPoint, Microsoft Office InfoPath,
   and Microsoft Office OneNote-can use information
   in Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 sites natively.
   Programs in the Microsoft Office System allow
   users to add members to sites, assign tasks,
   and communicate with members both by e-mail or
   in real time by using online presence, all while
   working on documents stored in Windows SharePoint
   Services v3.0 sites. With Microsoft Office Outlook,
   users can view calendars and contact lists stored
   on Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 sites and
   can create and manage sites devoted to editing
   documents and organizing meetings.

10. Easy implementation of blogs and wikis.

    Provide creative forums for brainstorming ideas,
    building knowledge bases, or simply gathering
    information in an easy-to-edit format with
    new templates for implementing blogs (also
    known as weblogs) and wikis (Web sites that
    can be quickly edited by team members-no special
    technical knowledge required).