In accordance with regulatory compliance for organizations such as those in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and energy industries, Human Resources and Compliance staff are tasked with not only providing essential company information to all employees, but also determining if that information was read and understood. For Policies & Procedures certification, acknowledgement takes on greater importance as adherence to federal and state laws is often at stake. How can you know for sure that your employees actually read essential policies and procedures?
The ConvergePoint Certification Policy and Procedure Template takes the guesswork out of receiving employee acknowledgements with a fully-customizable certification quiz. The certification quiz can include questions on the policies of your choice to ensure that employees actually understood critical aspects of the policy or procedure document that they were being asked to acknowledge. Moreover, an employee must successfully complete the quiz in order to acknowledge it as read. Once acknowledged, notification is sent to management and recorded in a central database. Real-time reporting makes it easy to track the entire history of acknowledgements for all employees and documents. Additionally, sending out certification requests has never been easier. Alerts can target specific individuals or groups on a scheduled timeline according to your organization’s requirements.
Electronic requests and acknowledgements allow your organization to stay compliant with regulations that require privacy and written confirmation without dependence on stacks of paper. The ConvergePolicy Certification Policy and Procedure Template integrates completely with SharePoint and grows with your business, requiring only a modest investment to achieve absolute policy and procedure management. Request a demo today.
Regulatory compliance requires an all-hands-on-deck approach to ensure that all I’s are dotted, and all T’s are crossed, so why complicate matters by relying on an outdated approach to document management? Regardless of industry, an email-intensive approval process is a certain way to drop the ball in some aspect of document lifecycle management.
The ConvergePoint team helped a pharmaceutical company improve compliance by eliminating their reliance on Excel spreadsheets and e-mail to manage document approval. By leveraging SharePoint Workflows, the resulting improved document workflow allowed appropriate users to draft, review, and approve documents on a single platform. The use of notifications to alert users of changes to documents also meant greater version control. Plus, shared drives were no longer necessary for document storage. The benefits didn’t stop there. Check out this case study for more information on how ConvergePoint improved regulatory compliance for this organization.
See how much of a difference ConvergePoint makes by signing up for a no-obligation demo of how SharePoint Workflows can help your organization or calling 888-484-8048.
If you aren’t quite ready to commit to a 30 minute demo or consulting session, perhaps this 2 minute video of the time-saving, efficiency-enhancing SharePoint Purchase Order Approval Software will offer a tempting overview of just how much your organization’s purchase order approval process will benefit from this template. The video shows how quick and easy it is to create a new purchase order approval request in under 60 seconds. Once created, the four-step process consists of fixed user access to First Level, Second Level, Third Level, and Finance Level Approvals. Please note, the second and third level approvals are optional.
Benefits of the template include:
- Fully-customizable fields in the new purchase order request form allow organizations complete control over what information is required and captured
- Ability to set thresholds for configuration of Approvals
- Targeted reporting provides business intelligence insights
- Audit Trails offer a complete history of all purchase order approval requests
Instantly reduce the purchase order approval process from days to minutes. Learn more about the ConvergePoint SharePoint Purchase Order Approval Processing Template.
A contract’s lifecycle begins with a request from within the organization. How well this request is handled depends primarily on the contract management process in place. The difference between manual contract management and automated contract management is considerable, and can greatly impact administrative costs, compliance, and risk. For each step in the contract management process, automated solutions prevent errors and help expedite lifecycle management.
Contracts are the crux of every business. They define both opportunities and obligations. Yet, very few organizations manage the contract lifecycle with either regularity or precision. Even fewer still have automated the process to properly allocate staff workload.
The ConvergePoint SharePoint Contract Management Software is a full-featured automated contract management system that allows complete visibility and control over any given contract from its inception to its renewal. To this end, the contracts administrator or legal team supervisor has the ability to quickly and easily assign contract creation to specific contract lawyers or contracts specialists within a corporate legal team. This creates an orderly process for each task, resulting in greater efficiency and increased productivity.
Contract Management Software Template – Feature Overview Video
See how much of a difference the ConvergePoint SharePoint Contract Management Software template makes by signing up for a no-obligation demo or calling 888-484-8048.
Is the software that your organization purchased years ago still meeting the needs of your ever-expanding business? Is it improving employee productivity or causing preventable efficiency lags? A much-needed update might be the solution that boosts corporate communications and overall value.
A notable example is the case study of a financial services company. This global investment management firm experienced ineffective communication and collaboration due to inconsistent branding and poor site structure on an outdated platform. ConvergePoint migrated all of the client’s data to the latest version of SharePoint. The SharePoint migration enabled users to quickly update content within departments by using a custom web part built on top of the enterprise content management (ECM). The ConvergePoint team also built out and rebranded the intranet. By ensuring global consistency across a vastly improved site structure, users were able to easily find information, thereby improving productivity.
Is your organization ready to make similar strides in employee productivity, collaboration, and content management by moving to the latest version of SharePoint?
The expert SharePoint Consulting team at ConvergePoint is prepared to migrate your existing system today. With over 10 years of SharePoint experience, ConvergePoint has the tools and expertise to develop a custom installation and deployment plan based on your organization’s goals. For more information, visit ConvergePoint or call 888-484-8048.
It is that time of year when organizations look back at what worked and what didn’t work, and start to plan ways to improve for next year. Managers ask themselves, “How can I boost productivity, stimulate communication and collaboration, or automate certain processes?” The answer is SharePoint. The SharePoint experts at ConvergePoint offer an array of SharePoint products to add value to your organization in 2013. Whether you are currently running SharePoint or considering it for the first time, ConvergePoint has the tools to update or migrate your platform today. Where will SharePoint take your organization in 2013?
Explore How ConvergePoint SharePoint Products Can Upgrade Your Business:
- Policies & Procedures Management Portal
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Policy and Procedure Management: Create, review, and approve policies and procedures in a single system with workflows that connect the right people at the right time.
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Policy and Procedure Publication and Distribution: Publish and distribute policies and procedures in a centralized location. Schedule alerts for when a particular item is up for renewal.
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Policy and Procedure Certification: Receive electronic acknowledgements of policies and procedures from employees. Use quizzes to track and verify that employees have read and understood required documentation.
- Contracts Management Software SharePoint Template
The ConvergePoint SharePoint 2010 Contracts Management Portal enables an organization to streamline the authoring and negotiation process, improve document management, and ensure version control.
- Corporate SharePoint Intranet Starter Template
The ConvergePoint Corporate SharePoint Intranet Template is a prebuilt, easily customized, quick to deploy tool that will enhance employee productivity and collaboration by allowing users to access all essential documents and company data in a single, secure place.
- Purchase Order Tracking
The ConvergePoint Purchase Order System will improve response and decision-making time with a simple, convenient and accurate way to manage important relationships with vendors, sellers, distributors, and partners.
ConvergePolicy™ is a customizable template add-on to your existing SharePoint platform that allows users to manage all policies and procedures in one place. It includes 3 modules, which can be purchased separately or as a package:
Contact our SharePoint Products experts today for a free consultation, or call 888-484-8048.
A notable list of Fortune 500 Companies has adopted SharePoint technology for their external-facing websites. Verizon, Amonix, and LandAir, to name a few, have all benefitted from the extensive customization options that SharePoint offers. Is your organization ready to take that next step and upgrade your underused extranet or intranet to an intelligent collaboration tool that also has that “wow” factor? If so, it is time for the ConvergePoint SharePoint Extranet.
Add value to your business with the SharePoint extranet portal by improving communication and collaboration using a secure means to manage projects with partners, vendors and customers. Take advantage of extensive functionality including status dashboards, document sharing and collaboration, search, alerts, announcements, and more. Also, eliminate the need for manual processes that can potentially slow productivity by empowering authorized users with automated workflows that enable them to take immediate action.
Plus, the flexibility of the SharePoint interface enables organizations to engage users with customized branding. The end result: A professionally designed, comprehensive collaboration tool that drastically improves knowledge sharing.
Whether you already have SharePoint or are considering it for the first time, we have solutions for you. Contact our SharePoint experts today for a free consultation.
Scratch one wish off of your organization’s list this holiday season by giving the gift that keeps giving: Compliance. ConvergePolicy™ is a robust full-featured policy and procedure template add-on to your existing SharePoint system that allows organizations to create, track, publish, and manage all policies and procedures in one centralized, electronic system. According to InfoSecIsland.com, “Even though your organization might have the best policies and procedures in the world, if they are not implemented at the individual-level with awareness and accountability, there will be failures (lawsuits, breaches, losses, employment fraud, etc.).” Your policies and procedures provide a standard of internal control, a guideline for internal training, and a framework for improvement. Automate how your organization ensures policy and procedure implementation, distribution, and acknowledgement with ConvergePolicy’s system of three modules.
The three modules, outlined below, can be purchased separately, or as a package:
- Policy and Procedure Management:
The ConvergePolicy Policies and Procedures Management software expands the capabilities of SharePoint with version control, audit trails, powerful search, and much more
- Policy and Procedure Publication and Distribution:
The ConvergePolicy Publication and Distribution module streamlines your ability to distribute the most recent essential documentation to your employees and reduce e-mail clutter with proactive publication, automated notifications, and regulatory compliance management
- Policy and Procedure Certification:
The ConvergePolicy Certification module makes requesting and receiving employee acknowledgements much more efficient and reliable with electronic certification requests and sign offs, certification quizzes, scheduled renewals, general dashboards, and ad-hoc reporting
Manage your policies and procedures more effectively with a minimal investment. ConvergePolicy grows with you and is easy to maintain in-house or with ConvergePoint’s comprehensive support services. Because ConvergePolicy integrates completely with SharePoint, you can get going quickly and seamlessly.
Schedule a demo by December 31st and receive 10% off any ConvergePoint Policy and Procedure Template. For more information, visit ConvergePoint or call 888-484-8048.
The intranet boom, if you will, began a decade ago with companies looking for a means to improve employee collaboration and communication. Back then, however, designing, developing, and launching an intranet was often costly, time-consuming, and departmentally problematic, but, not anymore.
The ConvergePoint Intranet Starter Pack includes a prebuilt set of tools and features within the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Intranet Template that can be easily customized, deployed and extended to meet your specific business needs. Instantly engage your users with relevant content that ensures adoption.
Features of our SharePoint 2010 Intranet Template include:
- Dynamic intranet home page with custom modules to fit every organization
- Department level sites with document management, calendaring and content management features
- Custom workflows for HR, IT and other department level functions
Let us jump start employee collaboration and communication by getting your basic intranet framework done right. We can also enhance or migrate your existing Sharepoint intranet.
ConvergePoint is currently offering 20% off the SharePoint 2010 intranet starter pack if you schedule a demo by December 15th. Learn how the ConvergePoint SharePoint intranet improved information-sharing and productivity for this organization.
Trust us, if you build this intranet, they will come.
The integrity of an organization is determined – in part – by the accuracy of its documents. Unfortunately, more often than not, the document approval process requires multiple revisions that neither correctly captures nor easily tracks changes. This is true across industries, but for legal teams the timely authoring, review, and approval of contracts must align with the necessity for diligence and precision.
Without a streamlined document approval process, the contract workflow can easily overwhelm legal departments eventually leading to mistakes and delays. According to Law Technology News, “Contract management software promises to help attorneys gain the upper hand on contract creation, storage, organization, and related tasks by providing tools designed to streamline routine processes.” Author John Edwards also notes, “The myriad of benefits, such as return on investment, compliance, standardization of terms, contract life-cycle management, and system visibility, outweigh the perceived hurdles.”
The ConvergePoint SharePoint Contract Management System enables an organization to create, collaborate, review and approve contracts on a centralized, fully customizable SharePoint 2010 Legal platform. All files are stored in one place throughout the contract lifecycle, allowing awareness of on-going contract status. Changes to documents are tracked, making it easy to find the most recent version, and archived upon completion. Also, ad-hoc reporting helps to manage contract renewals and evaluate lifecycles.
Ultimately, the ability to share information across key areas of the organization can increase contract compliance, reduce cycle times, and help prevent unnecessary revenue loss—for the entire legal team and company. Contact our SharePoint experts today for a free consultation.
Most of us have at least one task in our daily lives that we could simplify if we streamlined the process. For many organizations, large and small, that one task – purchase order tracking –will not only cut costs, but also improve productivity.
Take, for example, the case study of a city government that for decades used paper-based workflows to manage approvals for expenditures and other initiatives. Reliance on manual processes resulted in a time-consuming and inefficient approval cycle, and excess spending on document storage space. By implementing the SharePoint Purchase Order System the administration reduced the time to complete approval processes from days to minutes, decreased paper consumption and printing costs, and projected savings of $14.3M over five years.
Sounds simple, right?
The Converge Point Purchase Order System built on the SharePoint platform can help you better manage the numerous transactions that make up your business every day by empowering you and your employees with electronic purchase orders and invoice approvals. Improve response and decision-making time while cultivating your important relationships with vendors, sellers, distributors, partners and customers.
See how much of a difference ConvergePoint makes by signing up for a no-obligation demo of the Purchase Order System or calling 888-484-8048.
More and more companies are seeing the benefits of Microsoft Office 365. Toyota just announced that they are making Office 365 available to more than 200,000 employees. Are you an organization that is following in the footsteps of Toyota and other major corporations by using Office 365 but have not yet experienced its full potential?
ConvergePoint designs and develops custom SharePoint applications specific to each individual organization’s needs. With more than 10 years of first hand customer driven experiences, we have seen the benefits of SharePoint and are proud to announce new Office 365 solutions from start to finish with comprehensive packages including design, development, installation and training.
Whether you already have Office 365 or are considering it for the first time, we have solutions for you. Contact our SharePoint experts today for a free consultation. www.convergepoint.com
ConvergePoint wants to learn from you and your day in, day out business experiences. Every Wednesday let’s open the lines of communication and welcome various industries with best practices on topics related to document sharing, policies & procedures as well as purchase order workflow. So, what do you say?
Today’s topic:
What are the key business operations challenges you face? What tools do you use to address those challenges and how satisfied are you with those tools? If you use SharePoint, what has your experience with it been like?
A couple of years ago, I bought a toolkit containing all kinds of tools. But let’s say that I need a socket wrench, and the toolkit I own does not include one. Naturally, I go to the hardware store to look for one. Money is tight, and I want the best deal. Then, I spot it: a shiny new socket wrench. What’s more, it comes as part of a toolkit that includes dozens of other tools. What a deal! Who needs a single socket wrench when I can have it plus all these other great gadgets? Who cares if it costs a little—or a lot—more than the socket wrench alone?
Of course, I didn’t need an entirely new toolkit. It doesn’t make sound financial sense to purchase an entirely new toolkit when I only need a single tool.
Likewise, it doesn’t make sense to purchase entirely separate platforms and systems for collaboration, policies and procedures management, compliance, or business process management (BPM) when you already have the basic tools that make those systems work. If your organization, like most organizations, has SharePoint, it already owns the building blocks of all those other systems. By purchasing products that do not tie into SharePoint, you are squandering the investment you have already made. You could, instead, purchase fully-customizable add-ons that enhance the SharePoint capabilities you already have.
ConvergePoint specializes in SharePoint add-ons that accomplish everything those off-the-shelf packages do, with the added benefits of simplicity and integration with your existing SharePoint system and resources. SharePoint ties in seamlessly with your global address book, all Microsoft Office applications, and Active Directory. No extra work required. The add-ons scale with your organizational needs and are fully customizable. You spend minimal dollars, maximize your previous investment, and get going sooner.
Don’t fill your garage with redundant toolkits. Optimize what you have with targeted add-on products that provide exactly what you need.
I’m sure your mind is constantly flooded with questions like these: How do I get the most out of my investment in SharePoint? Where should I build out or streamline my company’s SharePoint system? How do the most successful organizations use SharePoint? What do they do to make it work for them? What’s next on the SharePoint horizon? What questions should I be asking? Who will answer them?
Okay, so maybe those aren’t your most pressing questions, but we SharePoint nuts at Converge Point think about them all the time. And even if you don’t regularly ask these questions, you would probably like to hear the answers.
Consider your questions answered! This Saturday, April 28, 2012, is SharePoint Saturday Houston. In one day, learn more than you ever thought you’d get to know about SharePoint from experts, developers, and users. The event is absolutely FREE, but you need to register to save your seat.
It’s impossible to fully leverage SharePoint without learning from the experience of other companies and experts. At SharePoint Saturday, you’ll get in-depth information on how companies are using SharePoint, which aspects they are developing, new tools to simplify your implementation, and how to approach the design and development of SharePoint at your organization. Check out all the sessions and speakers at www.sharepointsaturday.org/houston.
Come to the Norris Conference Center at City Centre Houston (803 Town and Country Blvd., Houston, TX 77024) this Saturday, and don’t miss our booth. We’ll be there sharing what we know and learning along with everyone else. This event will answer the toughest SharePoint questions. Won’t you come and ask them?
