Microsoft Product Integration

Integration and consulting services for your business.

afflux Consulting Group

One of our specialties at afflux Consulting Group is business system integration and information management.

Microsoft CRM

Microsoft Business Systems CRM® is a client/server application designed to manage customer for small and medium businesses. This CRM Factsheet provides an excellent overview of CRM 1.2. Afflux has migrated data to new CRM installations, created custom synchronization services for data integrity between disparate systems, customizations to the CRM UI, written custom reports using SQL Server Reporting Services, created executive dashboards and exposed CRM data to users using SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Microsoft Office Integration

The software engineers at afflux are experienced Office application builders. Just what is an Office application?

Office applications are hosted within Microsoft Office System® products like Excel, Word or InfoPath. An Office application is usually bound to a source of data in a company that is necessary for processing a report or a form. The Office product hosting the application aids in implementing the user interface commensurate with the functions performed. That is, Excel is perfect for number and graph presentations, Word is ideal for letters and textual reports, and InfoPath is perfect for forms. Our engineers create the programming code necessary to make your Office products come alive with your data in ways the 'boxed' products by themselves cannot.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003

What is a portal?

A portal is a web-based point of integration for data and applications, usually personalized for the user. Portals can exist on Corporate Intranets for internal users or Extranets for business partners.

SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 enables a single point of access to multiple systems such as Microsoft Office System® programs, business intelligence and project management systems, and existing line-of-business applications, including third-party and industry-specific programs. The portal, built on a scalable, highly distributed architecture, provides flexible tools for deployment, development, and management, all of which enable the portal to grow with your organization’s needs. These integration features enable you to harness information to make use of your company’s resources. Users can extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects, and best practices across the company. The portal features search technology developed by Microsoft Research that enables you to search file shares, Web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server® public folders, Lotus Notes, and Windows SharePoint® Services sites out of the box. In addition, you can organize documents and information by topic and browse for relevant content. Alerts notify you when new information is added or existing information changes to help you better use the data.

Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Premium

What are the advantages of Small Business Server?

Microsoft Small Business Server is a bundled set of products designed to make the deployment of a server in a small business more of a DIY affair. Small Business Server 2003 Premium includes Windows Server 2003, SharePoint Services, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Shared FAX Service, SQL Server 2000, ISA Server 2000 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and FrontPage 2003. Small Business Server 2003 Premium is favorably priced but has plenty of room to accommodate the future needs of your business.

Afflux Consulting Group relies on Small Business Server 2003 Premium every day to run it's business and every application we develop is tested for use in Small Business Server installations.