JUNE 2008

Janalent Awarded Top Finalist for the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Exchange Migration and Deployment.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA — June 16, 2008— Today, Janalent announced it has been selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Partner of the Year award in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Exchange Migration and Deployment..

"We are excited and honored that the commitment and creativity consistently provided by our talented consultants, is being recognized by Microsoft as among the best in the world,” says Anne Chahal, Founder & CEO of Janalent. “Being selected as one of the top three companies out of thousands of partners globally, for Partner of the Year Finalist in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Exchange Migration and Deployment, is an amazing achievement that provides a tremendous amount of pride for our entire team at Janalent.”

Awards will be presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 entrants worldwide. The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Exchange Migration and Deployment Partner of the Year award recognizes partners with proven expertise in responding to the challenges of providing secure, reliable, anytime, anywhere access to e-mail. E-mail and calendaring have a tremendous impact on the way organizations of all sizes conduct business. While workers communicate with greater speed and efficiency, the proliferation of e-mail brings the need for higher levels of security and a messaging and collaboration solution than can help them increase productivity and enhance mobile access.  

“Partners are critical to delivering rich business solutions and innovative excellence to customers,” said Allison Watson, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft. “Congratulations to the 2008 Partner Award winners and finalists who have each demonstrated innovation beyond measure and an unswerving commitment to delivering the highest levels of customer satisfaction. We look forward to these partners continuing to raise the bar in the design and deployment of customer solutions built on Microsoft technologies.”

As a field-managed Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, Janalent enables the “collaboration workplace” of tomorrow, providing high value solutions based on our core operating philosophy of “Knowledge, Wisdom and Performance”.   We combine the highest level subject-matter experts, tools, and proven methodology to successfully deliver best-in-class knowledge management, communication & collaboration, enterprise messaging & directory, secure identity & lifecycle management, and custom software development solutions. With locations and support spanning 16 time zones throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, many of our consultants have over 15 years proven experience successfully delivering solutions architecture, technical thought leadership, and implementation solutions for many of the largest  technology deployments and migration initiatives in the world. 

ABOUT JANALENT
Janalent (www.janalent.com) is an elite technology solutions provider, focused on delivering high-level consulting and product solutions to connect individuals, organizations, and communities, without the limitations of culture or geography. Janalent creates award-winning infrastructure, identity management, collaboration and migration solutions with Microsoft technologies including, Microsoft Windows 2008 Server, Office SharePoint Server, Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, CRM Server, and SQL Server. Janalent has helped organizations across five continents with customers ranging in size from medium enterprises to multi-national conglomerates.

Janalent is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and was recently named the 2008 Global Partner of the Year finalist for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Exchange Migration & Deployment.

 

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.

For additional information:

Contact Joseph Martin Honan, Janalent Corporation | www.janalent.com | +1.888.290.4870x83 | jmhonan@janalent.com 

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SharePoint 2007 Webinar Series

The SharePoint environment has become a powerful collaboration and knowledge-management tool. As organizations embrace SharePoint 2007, and it becomes critical to all facets of the business, how are you going to manage it?

Join Janalent for a four-part webcast series on maximizing your investment in this flexible technology and avoiding common pitfalls at each stage of deployment. In this series, we will cover Quest Software’s SharePoint enterprise management solutions and outline best practices based on Janalent’s extensive experience with successful collaboration and knowledge management projects.

The four-part series, based upon Janalent's ADE² Success Methodology™ for SharePoint covers:

Part 1 - Discovery,  Analysis and Mind-setting  -  AVAILABLE NOW!    

Prepare for the impact of SharePoint 2007 and set the stage for a controlled and productive deployment

Agenda
- SharePoint in the Market and your Enterprise
- Planning for SharePoint –Business and Technology Drivers
- “Current State” Discovery and Analysis
- Quest Discovery Wizard and Site Administrator
- Tips and Tricks – lessons learned from large scale deployments

Part 2 - Site Administration, Management and Migration  -  AVAILABLE NOW!    
How to approach managing your SharePoint environment -  there is  a lot more to consider than just the technology

Agenda
- Successfully Administer and Manage a SharePoint environment
- Quest Site Administrator
- Benefits of standardization (Technology, Services and Policies)
- Successful migration planning  to SharePoint
- Tips and Tricks – lessons learned from large scale deployments

Part 3 - Exchange Public Folder Migration  -  AVAILABLE NOW!    
An in-depth review of the steps needed to migrate Public Folders to SharePoint including use of Quest Public Folder Migrator

Agenda
- Successfully Migrate from Exchange to SharePoint
- Architecture and co-existence
- An in-depth look at Quest Public Folder Migrator
-Tips and Tricks – lessons learned from large scale deployments

Part 4 - SharePoint Optimization and Extension  -  AVAILABLE NOW!    
Leveraging the flexibility and extensibility of SharePoint 2007 - without jeopardizing manageability and support

Agenda
- Capacity and Service Management
- Impact of centralized vs. decentralized deployments
- Network Latency and Acceleration
- Backup and Recovery
- Extending SharePoint features without complex development
- Tips and Tricks – lessons learned from large scale deployments