SharePoint 2013 Migration & Intranet Portal Development questionnaire

Questionnaires

Question 1:

What are the pain points in the current Intranet website, and its environment kindly specify each?

Question 2:

Do you have enterprise applications must be integrated with the SharePoint Platform if any kindly specify what are they?

Question 3:

Do you have a requirement or a solution for business workflows?

Question 4:

What is the number of End Users going to use the Intranet Portal?

Question 5:

What is the total number of user licenses available to you for SharePoint?

Question 6:

In how many geographic regions will users of the SharePoint 2013 platform reside?

Question 7:

Will we need to define new content for the site? Who are the content owners?

Question 8:

What purposes your SharePoint 2013 implementation will fulfill or to put in other way; what you looking at by implementing SharePoint 2013  is it Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution Portal solution, team sites, document libraries, collaboration, search, business intelligence, all features)?

Question 9:

What version of Exchange Server is in place (deployed) currently 2013, 2010, 2007 or Exchange Online?

Question 10:

Do you want to integrate SharePoint 2013 with your Exchange for sending receiving email, alerts at this SharePoint 2013 implementation?

Question 11:

What version of MS LYNC is in place LYNC (deployed) currently 2013, LYNC 2010, OCS 2007 or LYNC online?

Question 12:

Do you want to integrate SharePoint 2013 with your MS LYNC for instant messaging, VOIP calls from SharePoint 2013, employee presence and status and voice and video conferencing at this SharePoint 2013 implementation?

Question 13:

What other content management solutions do you use in Client Company?

Question 14:

What version of Office is deployed in?

Question 15:

Do you have an internal IT team that will works on maintaining and customizing a SharePoint Server 2013?

Question 16:

Does Client Company requires the high availability at Database Server level? Does they have database SQL Server Failover Cluster or database mirroring if no then which type of other high availability has adapted for enterprise class applications?

Question 17:

Does Client Company have large BLOB (images, audio, and multimedia) objects? What is the approximate size? Does SharePoint 2013 requires to use remote storage (RBS) for BLOB or uses BLOB cache on Web-front End Servers (WFEs)?

Question 18:

Is the current SharePoint 2013 deployment required only Arabic Language or do you have Multilanguage requirements in Client Company such as Arabic and English is there any other language requirement as well kindly specify? Which languages do you need to support in SharePoint 2013 deployment?

Question 19:

Number of employees profile on Active Directory (AD) roughly estimates?

Question 20:

Does user profiles should be imported other than the Active Directory (AD). What are the number of sources and what are they? Kindly specify?

Question 21:

Does the current SharePoint 2013 deployment requires to have the My Sites available for the employees?

Question 22:

Does Client Company have/ own the licenses for SharePoint 2013 as well as for related technologies such as Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012 etc. otherwise we could purpose you licensing in the proposal.

Question 23:

Do you have the required hardware (i.e. servers) for implementation? Otherwise, you want us to add in to the proposal.

Question 24:

Are you looking for Virtual environment for deployment, or entirely physical we recommend to use at least SharePoint 2013 WFEs in virtual environments such as Hyper-V based on Windows Server 2012. What is your current environment for hosting other applications is it completely physical, mix or highly virtualized (DBs & Web Servers on VM)?

Question 25:

Is Intranet Portal for Employees have application or modules in it such as time attendance, task management, employee services (HR docs) etc. kindly specify each?

Question 26:

Does custom build Line of Business Applications (LOBs) hosting required on SharePoint 2013?

Question 27:

Number of required InfoPath 2013 based applications or self-service applications based on Info Path Form Services (IFS).

Question 28:

Number of Third Party web-parts deployed or custom made web-parts on your current Intranet Portal

Question 29:

Do you need to automate some of business process using Third party workflow solutions such as NINTEX or K2 or any other kindly specify?

Question 30:

Custom Workflow developed with Visual Studio (Windows Workflow Foundation) kindly specify details?

Question 31:

Numbers of Custom Workflows required to develop by SharePoint Designer (SPD) kindly specify details?

Question 32:

Do you need to provision My Site in order to take benefits of Enterprise Social Networking?

Question 33:

Do you need to provision (facilitate) excel services in order to benefit from the Excel related features in SharePoint 2013?

Question 34:

Is Performance Point Services is required to use for Business Intelligence for building Dashboards contains KPI and Scorecards?

Question 35:

Is InfoPath Services is required to use for developing forms for your SharePoint 2013 deployment?

Question 36:

Is SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS is required to host reports in SharePoint 2013?

Question 37:

Is SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search feature required in New SharePoint 2013 Portal?

Question 38

Is Search is required to configured to Crawl File Servers if yes specify what are these sources and their details such as type of content to crawl, size etc.?

Question 39

Is Search is required to crawl Business Data (within the Database) through Business Connectivity Services (BCS)? Kindly specify Number of Servers and number of databases needs to be queried?

Question 40

Does Client Company needs to search over Microsoft Exchange Public Folders?

Question 41

Does Client Company need Integration with ERP or any accounting system fetching and writing data back to ERP such as ORACLE E-Business Suite, SAP or Dynamics AX, GP, NAV please specify details?

Question 42

Does Client Company need Integration with any CRM system such as ORACLE Siebel, Dynamics CRM kindly specify details?

Question 43

Does Client Company requires any Integration with any Microsoft Application based on Windows Forms, ASP.NET if any kindly specify details?

Question 44

Does Client Company requires any Integration with Open Source applications such as PHP MySQL if required kindly specify details?

Question 45

Does required single sign on through SharePoint for connected applications through SharePoint 2013 Secure Store Service (SSS) successor of Single Sign-On (SSO) provisioning how many applications require it?

Question 46

What is current version of Windows Server Client Company is using for Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller (DC)?

Question 47

What is the volume of data that will be stored on the system New SharePoint 2013 deployment kindly rough estimation?

Question 48

Does the solution need a controlled publishing process? Controlled publishing process includes a defined process for authoring, approval, and content deployment?

Question 49

Does the solution needs specific requirements around isolation of content authoring and content consumption environments if yes it requires the separate environment for staging before publishing to production (two farms or two separate deployments).

Question 50

Do you need to use social computing features of SharePoint 2013 in your Intranet Portal?

Question 51

Do you have any custom solutions that integrate to backend LOB applications or data sources?

Question 52

What version of client operating system (OS) and browsers end users are using at Client Company?

Question 53

Is the source code and documentation of current Intranet is available?

Question 54

Do you have training requirements for the SharePoint 2013 for your technical staff (IT Staff) as well as end users (business users) in order to increase the Return on Investment (ROI) over SharePoint 2013 technology?

Question 55

Do Client Company requires Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint web access in SharePoint 2013 deployment?