“With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, changing content takes two minutes whereas before it could take hours. Plus, we don’t need any third-party assistance— this is the biggest benefit for us.” Talha Çamaş, Head of the Education Committee, Darüşşafaka High School Independent software vendor Simternet wanted to use cloud computing to offer small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) cost-effective and easy-to-manage hosted websites. Its customer Darüşşafaka High School is replacing an open-source solution with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for content management. This will help the school make significant savings and give staff the ability to change Turkish and English language content without requiring developer support. Business Needs Established in Istanbul in 1995, Simternet is an independent software vendor offering services to global clients such as KPMG and other leading brands in Turkey, and throughout Europe and the United States. As a Microsoft Hosting Gold Partner, Simternet offers its customers— especially SMEs—a wide range of off-the- shelf hosted applications developed on SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 technology. Cloud computing offers hosting partners such as Simternet new opportunities for business growth in website content management. Ataol Ay, General Manager, Simternet, says: “The online website creator business has traditionally been based mainly on non-Microsoft technology in our market. We believe companies that want to expand will increasingly prefer Microsoft solutions. Moreover, as the cloud service business grows, SMEs will have an opportunity to take advantage of the latest technologies.” Simternet customer Darüşşafaka High School traces its origins to 1873. It is a registered charity and nonprofit organization with ambitions to become an international school. As part of its modernization strategy, the school wanted to reduce the costs and time needed to control its intranet and Internet sites that were running Joomla open-source content management software. Talha Çamaş, Head of the Education Committee, Darüşşafaka High School, says: “It was becoming difficult to hire developers within our budget to maintain our communications requirements without committing significant capital resources. So we started a search for an out-of-the- box solution using cloud computing.” Solution Simternet is the first hosting partner in Turkey to offer websites on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010—a complete web- based application that allows users to access, view, and change content online from anywhere. With the solution in place, users don’t need to worry about installation processes, software updates, or integration with other Microsoft and non- Microsoft products. As a nonprofit organization, Darüşşafaka was already using Microsoft technology extensively on a discounted basis through Microsoft Open License for Charities. In addition, an affiliated organization—the Darüşşafaka Society—is using a custom developed SharePoint Server 2010 site for Partner: Simternet Website: www.simternet.com Partner Size: 12 Country or Region: Turkey Industry: Professional services—IT services Customer: Darüşşafaka High School Customer Profile Simternet—based in Istanbul, Turkey—is an independent software vendor with clients in Turkey, and across Europe and the United States. It specializes in Microsoft SharePoint Server technology. Software and Services Microsoft Server Product Portfolio − Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 − Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 For more information about other Microsoft customer successes, please visit: www.microsoft.com/casestudies Microsoft Server Product Portfolio Partner Solution Case Study School in Turkey Replaces Open-Source Web Content Software with Cloud-Based Tool
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“With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, changing content takes two minutes whereas before it could take hours. Plus, we don’t need any third-party assistance—this is the biggest benefit for us.”
Talha Çamaş, Head of the Education Committee, Darüşşafaka High School
Independent software vendor Simternet wanted to use cloud computing to offer small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) cost-effective and easy-to-manage hosted websites. Its customer Darüşşafaka High School is replacing an open-source solution with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for content management. This will help the school make significant savings and give staff the ability to change Turkish and English language content without requiring developer support.
Business NeedsEstablished in Istanbul in 1995, Simternet is an independent software vendor offering services to global clients such as KPMG and other leading brands in Turkey, and throughout Europe and the United States. As a Microsoft Hosting Gold Partner, Simternet offers its customers—especially SMEs—a wide range of off-the-shelf hosted applications developed on SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 technology.
Cloud computing offers hosting partners such as Simternet new opportunities for business growth in website content management. Ataol Ay, General Manager, Simternet, says: “The online website creator business has traditionally been based mainly on non-Microsoft technology in our market. We believe companies that want to expand will increasingly prefer Microsoft solutions. Moreover, as the cloud service business grows, SMEs will have an opportunity to take advantage of the latest technologies.”
Simternet customer Darüşşafaka High School traces its origins to 1873. It is a registered charity and nonprofit organization with ambitions to become an international school. As part of its modernization strategy, the school wanted
to reduce the costs and time needed to control its intranet and Internet sites that were running Joomla open-source content management software.
Talha Çamaş, Head of the Education Committee, Darüşşafaka High School, says: “It was becoming difficult to hire developers within our budget to maintain our communications requirements without committing significant capital resources. So we started a search for an out-of-the-box solution using cloud computing.”
SolutionSimternet is the first hosting partner in Turkey to offer websites on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010—a complete web-based application that allows users to access, view, and change content online from anywhere. With the solution in place, users don’t need to worry about installation processes, software updates, or integration with other Microsoft and non-Microsoft products.
As a nonprofit organization, Darüşşafaka was already using Microsoft technology extensively on a discounted basis through Microsoft Open License for Charities. In addition, an affiliated organization—the Darüşşafaka Society—is using a custom developed SharePoint Server 2010 site for
Partner: SimternetWebsite: www.simternet.com Partner Size: 12Country or Region: TurkeyIndustry: Professional services—IT servicesCustomer: Darüşşafaka High School
Customer ProfileSimternet—based in Istanbul, Turkey—is an independent software vendor with clients in Turkey, and across Europe and the United States. It specializes in Microsoft SharePoint Server technology.
Software and Services Microsoft Server Product Portfolio− Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010− Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
For more information about other Microsoft customer successes, please visit: www.microsoft.com/casestudies
Microsoft Server Product PortfolioPartner Solution Case Study
School in Turkey Replaces Open-Source Web Content Software with Cloud-Based Tool
its corporate website www.darussafaka.org. This gave the organization confidence that Simternet was an appropriate and highly-qualified business partner.
Simternet offers the full service needed to deploy a website, including domain name registration, email hosting, and ready-to-use templates and modules. Ay says: “We offered the school our hosted Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 solution on a shared farm. It covers not only hosted SharePoint but a website creator wizard running on the provisioning tool developed by Simternet.”
Darüşşafaka deployed the new website—www.darussafaka.k12.tr—initially in Turkish and later released an English language version. Çamaş says: “We’ve been helped considerably by Simternet in establishing the new website and intranet in a matter of weeks. As our digital marketing and hosting partner, it also met our training needs.”
BenefitsBy replacing open-source software with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Darüşşafaka will reduce the time it takes to change content on its website and intranet from hours to minutes. Through the cloud, Simternet is offering its customer a highly competitive monthly pay-as-you-go financial model that requires no upfront capital commitment. Users find it easy to work with the software and require minimal training because of their familiarity with Microsoft Office products.
No developer costs with self-service solution. Teachers and administrators at Darüşşafaka can change content on the website without waiting for developers to pick up new tasks. Çamaş says: “With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, changing content takes two minutes whereas before it could take hours. Plus, we don’t need any third-party assistance—this is the biggest benefit for us.”
More predictable costs on a pay-as-you-go basis. The school is taking advantage of its Microsoft low-cost volume licensing arrangement as a nonprofit organization, and now has no need for a new physical infrastructure. Çamaş says: “We will be saving thousands of dollars a year with SharePoint Server 2010, and will get software updates automatically at no extra cost.”
Comprehensive support for users. Simternet has provided teachers and administrators with a customized set of templates and modules using Web Parts, which support sophisticated content such as videos, blogs, and picture libraries. Çamaş says: “These add-on services come as part of our deal—they would have been unaffordable before.”
Fast time to market for website. With the Simternet solution, it takes two minutes to get the new website ready for editing and rollout. Ay says: “Our provisioning tool is the first and currently only solution developed for SharePoint Server 2010. It gives small and medium-sized enterprises the power of SharePoint Server through the cloud.”
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Document published May 2012
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