Quest Web Parts for SharePoint™

SharePoint is great platform for developing intranets, collaborative workspaces and basic document management. Many of the hard-to-dos have been done very well in SharePoint, including data security, user authentication, standards-based construction using templates, data types, auto-coding. Developers with C# or VB skills can extend the capabilities, customising and re-skinning as-necessary and integrating with external systems. There is a rich tool bag of developer resources in the form of technologies, SDKs, APIs and supplementary tools to help developers on their way.

In fact, there is no denying that SharePoint 2010 is more integrated and easier to program than previous versions.  The approach of coding up complete SharePoint applications in Visual Studio, and using professional tools to manage development teams and controlled updates is far easier and more intuitive than before.

However, even with all that power, what many of our customers still want is all of the above, but without large volumes of bespoke code. They want to use SharePoint to build reliable line-of-business systems:

	quickly,
	out of pre-built components,
	without incurring the support costs associated with core development.

To use the builder's analogy, They want to build their house from a store of bricks of different sizes without having to make the bricks first.

This is where the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint come in. Quest Web Parts add functionality to the standard SharePoint offering to the extent that, together, SharePoint plus Quest Web Parts can be considered as a true development platform for the system builder.  With the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint complex products can be assembled without writing a line of code.  The web parts themselves are designed for performance and ease-of-management in mind.  The result is a web part set that can make a development team immediately productive out-of-the-box, and capable of advanced development after the minimum of training time.

Whereas some web part suppliers have focussed on solving specific business problems, such as Active Directory maintenance, SharePoint housekeeping and interacting with specific packages, the Quest Web Parts provide system builders with key competencies that make SharePoint an integrated and flexible system.

These include:
	Extending the range of data structures that can be modelled in native SharePoint.
	More, and improved, navigation tools.
	Custom actions to add workflow.
	Easy generation of dashboard displays.
	Interaction with external databases.

At version 5.x of the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint, there are 18 unique web parts, as follows:

Why buy from us? Simple: You'll be buying from the company with the best track record using this product in the UK.  What's more, after our expert training, if you need further help to get going, or just feel it would be cost effective to outsource, then you'll need to look no further.  You will find our depth of knowledge and experience in the use of the Quest Web Parts will help you to make rapid progress in building your line-of-business applications.  What more can we say?  Tell us what you are trying to do and put us to the test.

Not from UK?  We are sorry that we are unable to sell the Quest Web Parts for SharePoint outside of the UK.  To obtain a trial version of the product, or buy the product itself please refer to the Quest Software web site (http://www.quest.com/partners/search-partners.aspx)  to find your local Quest partner.  Once you have acquired and installed the product, we can, on the other hand, help you with consulting and development services, should you not find the skills you need locally.

For more information, complete our Request Form and check the Info box for the Quest Web Parts.