Reston, Va., [September 5, 2008] Applied Knowledge Group Inc. (AKG) has been selected as a vendor for Microsoft’s SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). SDPS is a program that provides SharePoint technical and consulting services to eligible Microsoft customers. All selected partners go through a thorough evaluation process to ensure they have the qualifications to expertly handle SharePoint customer needs.
As a pre-qualified SDPS program partner AKG has demonstrated the proven knowledge, experience and depth of expertise needed to successfully implement SharePoint to best meet each customer’s unique needs. Under the program, AKG can offer its full range of SharePoint implementation services, including its unique approach that ensures user adoption and improves knowledge sharing and collaboration. These services can provide the client with a roadmap of their current collaborative abilities and help them learn how to use SharePoint to best benefit their business.
Rance Hitt, AKG’s Director of Technical Services commented “We are proud to be one of the SDPS certified companies. This designation reaffirms AKG’s deep level of expertise in SharePoint implementation, and publicly demonstrates this to Microsoft customers and partners.”
About Applied Knowledge Group, Inc.
Applied Knowledge Group Inc. (AKG) is a Microsoft Certified Partner focused on helping government and commercial organizations connect employee knowledge via collaboration strategies, tools and best practice user adoption methods primarily based on a Microsoft SharePoint platform. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, AKG was founded in 1996 as an early innovator in collaboration technology.
Our goal is to support the vision of a Virtual Work Environment (VWE) to facilitate collaboration, knowledge transfer and enable more informed business decisions. To achieve this goal, we focus on four key pillars: People, Process, Technology and Learning. Our services align with these four pillars and include collaboration strategy support, change management and training services, SharePoint implementation and other technology services, geospatial data visualization, and software application development.
Current engagements include a 38,000 seat Microsoft SharePoint implementation for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as well as current and prior engagements including FedExKinkos, Weidemann Associates, Curtiss Wright Embedded Computing, the Institute for Defense Analyses, TV Guide, Weyerhaeuser Corp., Learning Tree International and the United States Marine Corps.