Vana IT Services

Vana Services is a Bangalore based technology services company with a niche focus on Microsoft SharePoint and related products. Vana was founded in 2005 with a sole vision of being the best provider of SharePoint based solutions.
Vana through the use of SharePoint has helped clients to:
Simplify Internal and External Collaboration
Enable and make business process more efficient
Turn individual knowledge into organizational knowledge
Vastly improve information sharing and retrieval
Improve business insight
Enable the adoption of paperless environment
Over the years of architecting, deploying, customizing and building solutions on SharePoint (2003/ 2007), Vana has accumulated a vast repository of best practices which are routinely applied to client engagements.
Our team shares a common mission: to help our clients utilize technology to support their business objectives and processes with better collaboration increased innovation and precise execution. We achieve our mission through partnership that involves the best thinking of the client's own stakeholders and innovative technology solutions of the Vana team. We measure our contributions through increased customer satisfaction and value delivered.
Why Vana?
Expertise and experience in delivering custom portal, collaboration and workflow
solutions on the SharePoint platform
Full lifecycle support of SharePoint from planning, deployment, customization to
training and maintenance
Process based development cycle for creating workflow enabled business process solutions
Focus and expertise on the Microsoft technology platform
Knowledge of utilizing out of the box SharePoint functionality
SharePoint Deployment Planning Services
One of the first companies to achieve Microsoft SharePoint Deployment and Planning
Services (SDPS) Partner in India
Our Services:
Sharepoint Managed Services
Strategy
Creating a Business- aligned SharePoint Architecture and Roadmap
Technology Purpose(s)
Long Term Architecture Plans
Governance Model
Support and Staffing Model
User Adoption Strategy
Migration Strategy
Prioritized list of SharePoint Projects
Infrastructure
Designing and implementing a scalable SharePoint Infrastructure
Farm Design
Farm Security Standards
Installation/ Configuration process
Operational Best Practices
Data Backup/ Recovery procedures
Site Design
Defining Site creation and Branding Standards that ensures a consistent user experience
Design Guidelines
Content planning
Security Standards
Branding
Site Templates
Custom Site Definitions
Business Solutions
Packaged Solutions and Templates for the Installation, Customization, and Adoption of common business applications
Corporate Portals
Client Dashboards
Help Desk and Asset Tracking
Project Management Dashboard
IT Operations Dashboard
HR Dashboard
Executive Leadership dashboard
Sales Team Dashboard
Enterprise Search
Reports Center
Records Center
Development/ Integration
Enhancing SharePoint functionality to address Client Specific needs (Work flows, System Integration, etc.)
Custom Workflows
Infopath
XLST
JavaScript
.NET
Webparts
Authentication providers
Custom Features
VSTO Solution
Custom Search Solutions
SharePoint Designer
Managed Service Engagements
Projects
Conducting Projects in a manner that ensures On time / On Budget Quality Results with a focus on knowledge transfer
Mentoring Services
Provide mentoring services which help client team to get "on the job" training on developing and understanding SharePoint based solutions
Managed Services
Outsourcing the full of SharePoint including Planning, installation, development, migration and support.
SharePoint Training
Vana offers the very latest in SharePoint 2007 training. Vana can perform on-site as well as classroom-based training. Additionally, we can work with you to deliver select course material in a mentoring capacity for the most effective hands-on learning. Since our instructors are not full-time instructors but also work on active projects, they have the ability to keep their skills current and deliver the most up-to-date information. Below are the courses we focus on:
Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Business Users
Many classes teach the mechanics of HOW to use SharePoint - create lists, document libraries and configure web parts. This technology focus is certainly important. However, in this unique and powerful course we teach WHY one uses these components and how to implement them in ways that drive business value.
Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Developers
This course explores the development opportunities with Microsoft's SharePoint Products and Technologies. The first half of the course focuses on Windows SharePoint Services 3. 0 (WSS) and the second half of the course focuses on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS).
Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Administration
This course explores the most effective methods for using the built in power of SharePoint. Learn the techniques that apply best to your environment while exploring the advance topics that can take your project to the next level. After this course you will have a solid understanding of Server Forms, Shared Service Providers, Forms Based Authentication, and other advanced administration concepts you will need to create the best SharePoint platform possible.
All of our instructors are experienced consultants who bring lessons-learned from their projects and the practical experiences faced over the years in developing end-to-end SharePoint solutions into the classroom to illustrate concepts for you.
Through our leading-edge, expert-led training our clients achieve swift skills development which enable them to quickly and effectively solve their problems and meet their goals.