Microsoft Webcast: Creating a Global Human Resources System Foundation with SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100)
Event Overview
In this webcast, we describe how migration of the Microsoft Human Resources Web content platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables:
- Faster future development.
- Reduction of 50% custom code, resulting in business and IT agility.
- Lower sustenance costs.
- Essential capabilities for future state architecture.
- Alignment with the Microsoft IT global vision for simplification.
In the past, each application or content site developed its own functionality and process, leading to more than 20 highly customized applications and/or sites today. Continuing down this path breeds redundant work and convoluted technical architecture. Join this webcast to learn how migrating the HR Web content platform to SharePoint Server 2007 is expected to provide a return on investment (ROI) of more than $10 million over three years and a reduction of 15 custom global HR Web sites.
Presenters: Saumil Gandhi, Senior Solutions Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Gaylon Blank, Application Architect, Microsoft Corporation
Saumil Gandhi is a senior solution manager with Microsoft Human Resources IT (HRIT), where he is responsible for envisioning and delivering the future versions of HRWeb, which enables employees to interact within a unified user experience across HR applications. Saumil focuses on stabilizing the existing platform, providing an integrated experience, and reducing or eliminating redundant processes and tools within the realm of HRWeb. Before joining the Microsoft team in 2005, Saumil spent more than seven years envisioning and delivering wireless data platforms and applications across the globe, spanning all major US carriers, Australasia, and Latin America.
Gaylon Blank is an application architect for Microsoft Human Resources IT (HRIT), where he is responsible for designing a reusable platform for building the current and future Microsoft HR line-of-business (LOB) applications. His two main areas of focus are the employee-facing portal, taking advantage of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and discovering the right components to consistently build transactional systems.