The full power of SharePoint...

With MICA, we provide an open software layer based on WSS 3.0 or MOSS to easily create workflows and manage document databases. For a modest outlay, all the collaborative power of SharePoint is multiplied by the capacity offered by MICA to structure activities and to provide users with the information they need.

Beyond its basic use, SharePoint is a very powerful collaborative tool whose technical openness delivers a wide range of capabilities. Users with responsibility for workspaces can create lists of documents to be shared, simple forms and three-stage workflows. However, once requirements such as more sophisticated forms and workflows become involved, as well as user rights that need to be combined across a number of spaces, or information that has to be exchanged with other systems, etc., things become more complicated and a need for advanced expertise that can only be provided by specialists soon arises, with the associated risk of mismatches and delays.

The MICA platform, with its four components of Modelling / Integration / Collaboration / Analysis, enables non-specialists to prepare computerised resources in SharePoint for sharing knowledge, making processes reliable, monitoring results and driving improvements. This truly makes BPM with SharePoint possible.

These functionalities rely on a whole set of technical components that we have created (see MICA Platform for SharePoint). These components make it possible to implement various relatively sophisticated management objects in SharePoint, such as complaints, indicators, actions, etc. Forms, workflows and links can be provided to support day to day operations, while benefitting from the SharePoint environment with features such as lists and other means of access.

It is of course important to realise that the extended functionalities permitted by the MICA tool must correspond to real business needs. In our experience, the pilot experiment method we propose is a good way to achieve this (see Suitability: a must).