Asteros Portal

Problems of quality improvement of information exchange in the company, automation of routine transactions and works monitoring of staff of the company effectively are solved due to use of modern communication tools of portal solutions.

The Asteros group offers Asteros Portal product line for management of corporate business processes, accumulated information and knowledge. The product line of Asteros includes the following portal solutions:

• "Corporate portal" (providing communication information environment of the company)
• "Knowledge base" (organization of a convenient and complete directory system of the company)
• "Document flow" (creation of the standardized and controlled electronic document management system)

Each solution Asteros Portal forms from a set of previously configured portal services implementing certain business functions or business processes of the company.

In the Russian market recently demand for the solutions, ready to work, providing a common information space of the company considerably grew. Answering these calls, Asteros Consulting announces the beginning of sales of a product line of Asteros Portal. The software is developed by specialists of the company based on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform. The boxed solution provides quick access to corporate information and effective joint work, increases quality of production processes and reduces operating costs.

The product line of Asteros Portal is focused on the small and medium companies with staff to 500 people. In the organizations of the Enterprise level the solution can be used for assessment of needs for functionality at the initial stage of custom development of a corporate portal.

The solution is issued in versions of Light and Standard. Both options include such basic services as corporate library, joint work with content, an event calendar, a series of standard modules ("The reference book by employees", "News of the company", "Interactive organizational structure", etc.) and also a forum and other means of communication. The standard version, in addition, gives an opportunity to automation of a number of internal business processes of the company based on the module "Requests", creation of social network of the organization, efficiency analysis of the portal and work of employees with it. The implemented solution can be in addition expanded under individual tasks of the client.

Depending on the version of a product, its cost varies from 600 thousand to 900 thousand rubles. Implementation term, including a preparatory stage, installation, setup, integration with corporate systems and user training, is from one (Light-version) to two (Standard-versions) months. After implementation specialists of Asteros Consulting perform warranty support of the solution within 3 months.

"The release of the boxed portal solution became a natural step in development of our product portfolio. We observe high demand on portals in the market and we aim to propose to our customers those solutions which as much as possible conform to their requirements and opportunities. The solution Asteros Portal became result of this work. By the end of the year we are going to reach about 20 million rubles sales level of a new product. Also we estimate further annual growth at 30%", – Mironova Inna, the head of practice of Microsoft of Asteros Consulting company notes.

"The Microsoft company pays much attention to development of portal solutions in a segment of the small and medium companies, and we welcome emergence of the boxed solution of Asteros Consulting. We noted high competences of a team of the partner both of project implementation, and of development of proprietary applications based on our products more than once. Are sure that with Asteros Portal the Russian companies will be able with the maximum benefit for themselves to use advantages which the Micorosoft SharePoint platform gives them", – Shchemelev Roman, the product manager of SharePoint, Microsoft in Russia says.