FA opts for Sharepoint 2010 to improve communication

Dawinderpal Sahota, Computing, Monday 17 May 2010 at 10:09:00

Football body wants to improve communication with teams

The
Football
Association (FA) has implemented a solution that will help it communicate
better with English football clubs using Microsoft?s
latest
edition of its collaboration and content management platform SharePoint
2010.

The FA?s system was designed and implemented by consultancy and technology
services firm
Concentra,
which has worked with the FA for four years and is a Microsoft SharePoint Gold
Partner.

The FA wanted to improve efficiency and cut costs. It approached Concentra
and asked the firm to provide support in selecting and using the latest edition
of SharePoint.

?Concentra was crucial in identifying Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as the right
solution for meeting the needs of the FA,? said Saty Gahir, enterprise content
manager at the FA.

?The organisation worked closely with us to identify the value that it could
deliver and, once the proof of concept was up and running, Concentra worked with
our project team to help them fully get to grips with the solution,? he added.

Gahir claims that early indications from using SharePoint show that, for
disciplinary cases, the FA estimates savings of up to 75 per cent in courier
costs alone.

Goetz Bou�, director at Concentra, added: ?SharePoint 2010 builds on the
benefits of the previous version and also adds a number of new features. We look
forward to working closely with businesses in the future to help them realise
its full potential and ultimately improve efficiency and cut costs.?

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