Sure, we eat, sleep and breathe Microsoft SharePoint, but it’s not the only thing we know.  Back in the day, AIS Network’s owners spent years working agency-side.  Public relations?  Marketing? Advertising?  Been there, done that, got the t-shirt for it…literally.

We understand your business and your technological challenges.  The big creative files.  The multiple emails floating the “final-final press release.”  Multiple versions of an ad zinging back and forth between the agency and the client.  The painful workflows and administrative processes.  The network crashes that paralyze the business and destroy the emails you need to get client work done.

Hey, crashing isn’t cool.  That’s one of the many reasons our public relations, marketing and advertising firm clients love what hosting does for SharePoint.

And you’ll love it too.  Why?  It’s not just the brilliant fit between hosted SharePoint 2010’s awesome collaborative platform and a high-powered creative environment.  Rather, it’s the anywhere-access to a mission-critical platform—shared with your team and your clients—and the confidence that you’ll never miss a beat because your SharePoint is up and available 100% of the time.  We guarantee it.

In the end, client trust and retention all comes down to your collaborative approach and how you handle business intelligence. AISN’s Hosted SharePoint 2010 provides the total solution you need, whether you are managing a single campaign or comprehensive strategy. Our creative clients say hosted SharePoint is the indispensible tool they need to stay on top of issues and execute flawless, mission-critical communications strategies.

 

Manage PR, Marketing and Advertising Campaigns Using Intranets and Extranets

In today’s complex marketing communications environment, collaboration is key and increasingly important for those firms that embrace cross-practice, cross-industry and/or cross-geographic client service.

Essential in establishing and keeping client trust is your ability to make your clients and team feel connected to the collaborative process wherever they may be.  Hosted SharePoint 2010 allows you to do just that.

SharePoint’s hosted, secure client extranets allow the firm’s entire team and its clients the anywhere-access they need to collaborate closely on campaigns and stay in constant touch – even from a distance. The dashboard centralizes the information they need, including time and billing, meetings and updates.  Collaboration is optimized through document review, version tracking, and indexing for efficient data search. This is especially helpful when their communications initiatives require input from key internal staff, the client and any key partners on the team.

Often, public relations and marketing activities require the gathering and indexing of a large amount of research and data and the ability to share bulky, creative files.  Hosted SharePoint 2010 accommodates a centralized repository for storing media contacts, press releases, multi-media files, communications and research related specifically to the client.

You can automate workflows – particularly important in tracking billable hours across a number of different clients and staff time devoted to various tasks. Automated routing of email communications ensures your client is always up-to-date in real-time with the status of projects, campaign activities and tracking, document management and indexing, and project management.

For Your Agency

Hosted SharePoint 2010 provides the tools and the workflow support to help you meet key deadlines, manage projects, implement processes and effectively communicate within and among the variety of teams that are servicing clients. AISN can work with you to customize the hosting plan you choose, while integrating with your home-grown, back office systems.

• Enable anywhere, secure access to your data through SharePoint.
• Create centralized repositories for proposals, templates, creative files, etc.
• Set up campaign Web sites as you need them to help you manage projects and deadlines.
• Share large, creative files within your clients and teams.
• Make it easy for account managers to get feedback and collaborate on documents and projects, while keeping all team members in the loop.

Why AIS Network Should Be Your Hosting Vendor of Choice

With the number of service providers offering hosted SharePoint 2010, does it really matter whom you choose? Of course, at AIS Network, we’re going to say “yes.” The only way to be successful and competitive as a service provider is to strive to offer the expertise and services that make us stand out in the crowd.

Why not turn to the people who understand your business best?

Increasingly, public relations, marketing and advertising firms are turning to AISN for help in developing a hosting solution for their SharePoint 2010 platform. Of course, being a successful supplier takes much more than having technical expertise. We know that in order to deliver the solutions you need, we must understand the special challenges you face.

At AISN, because our staff has worked for and with public relations and creative agencies, we have a clear grasp on how and why creative fims use SharePoint differently. We also understand that precision planning is everything in an agency environment.  Looking closely at strategy and execution, staying within budget, and getting it right the first time is crucial. That’s where we – and our network of partners – can help.

AISN offers a high-touch, personalized approach to solving the unique IT challenges each company faces – with experts who routinely develop custom hosted solutions for what may seem to our clients to be insurmountable challenges.

With a best practices approach to working with you, and our understanding of the organizational issues you face, we can be your trusted partner in deploying a customized, hosted SharePoint solution. See what our clients are saying about us.

Small and Large Companies Benefit

We know that the many demands on IT departments like yours can be overwhelming. Our staff’s rich experience and forward-thinking approach can help you achieve today’s goals while preparing for the future.

Both large and small communications firms benefit from AISN’s hosted SharePoint 2010.  Small firms impress clients with an advanced technological infrastructure and set the stage for faster growth with a scalable solution.  Large firms become more efficient at every level and gain more control over information management to improve quality of work life for employees, increase efficiency and enhance client relationships and communications. Plus, no matter your in-house technology, hosted SharePoint integrates seamlessly.

Hosting Plans Provide Options

At AISN, we offer our service in the cloud or on dedicated servers or shared servers with online and mobile accessibility to the hosted service. With all of the services we provide, AISN is valued by its customers because we offer personalized, high-touch service, so your solution is customized to work for your company’s unique way of doing business. All hosting plans offer our guarantee of 100% uptime and availability and disaster recovery. Our support is backed by seasoned technical engineers, who are available 24x7x365—live, on the phone—no matter what you need.

Security, Compliance Issues Addressed

AISN is 100% SLA-guaranteed and SAS 70 Type II-certified to maintain the highest level of security. Additionally, with SharePoint 2010, we customize client solutions to address critical compliance issues involving Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI Compliance, HIPAA and other industry-specific regulations.

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