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AvePoint’s Journey

What’s in Store for 2013

AvePoint has been on a journey with SharePoint from Tahoe to Today. Since 2001, our infrastructure management software has been fundamental to scaling and growing SharePoint as the backbone of many organizations, supporting SharePoint as a social enterprise collaboration platform.

In 2013, we’re continuing our tradition of extending not only SharePoint’s possibilities by enabling application development, scalable storage, enterprise data protection strategy, geo-distributed collaboration, compliance, records management, and service-oriented data center management – but we’re taking it a step further to enable true enterprise collaboration with confidence.

Organizations are faced with the disruptive trends of enterprise social, Cloud, BYOD, and Big Data Access. Every single organization in our hyper-connected and hyper-competitive world needs to improve worker efficiency and access to information, while maintaining control over data security, privacy, and compliance. AvePoint’s capabilities stitch together content platforms (whether SharePoint, Office 365, Exchange, Dynamics CRM, Yammer, or other collaborative technologies) to enable information collaboration with confidence. AvePoint aims to help organizations inch closer toward an ideal collaborative platform by providing a prescriptive journey, founded on four key pillars:

• Infrastructure management

• Governance

• Compliance

• Productivity

AvePoint is dedicated to remaining at the forefront of innovation, working closely with Microsoft and developing relationships with

What’s So Amazing About Collaboration?

As a technology company, collaboration is the fundamental channel of information, creativity, quality products, intellectual property, and even community presence. It has been the lifeblood of our company in moving from two founding employees to more than 1,300 employees worldwide.

Collaboration across borders is fundamental to business success. The ability for all of an enterprises’ lines of business – including but certainly not limited to development, support, engineering, and marketing teams – to work closely with our customers to create strong customer advocates and direct future vision has led to some of the most groundbreaking innovations in our market. The ability for partner teams to collaborate closely with sales and business development teams has created true “value add” solutions for the industry and brings creative solutions for clients to a new level.

Technology originally created for user productivity is rapidly evolving to cater to collaboration as the bedrock of business success, including the integration of social networks into everything we do and hold – whether it’s Twitter and Facebook on smart phones, SharePoint as part of Microsoft Office 365, integrated Office web apps, Yammer … the list can go on in perpetuity – the evolution of SharePoint from team sites into enterprise-wide portals, and even Google from a mail client to a social network and collaboration platform. Interestingly, file shares originally designed as a leap forward in visibility and productivity can feel cold and segregated from the rest of the world in today’s culture, thus the rampant popularity of Box, Dropbox, and USendIt services.

According to a recent study, having a common framework for collaboration in the enterprise improved increase productivity by 20 to 25 percent. But conversely, Gartner predicts that more than 20% of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs in the next four years over failing to control information governance and compliance. The tension here is fundamental to AvePoint’s strategic direction.

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Your Avenue to Secure Collaboration with AvePoint

Infrastructure ManagementIn order to satisfy stringent business requirements for constant collaboration and communication – and instill confidence in end-users – platform reliability and availability are of the utmost importance. In order to achieve this, a robust infrastructure management strategy to support both cloud and on-premises environments – complete with comprehensive data protection, storage and growth management, and streamlined administration – is key. While growth in content and user activity are signs of success, this success can be a double-edged sword particularly with regard to management challenges. With AvePoint’s fully integrated data protection, storage, and management solutions, centrally manage enterprise content with control.

As collaboration services are modernized, AvePoint’s support for the shifting cost of infrastructure allows for management of data centers, hybrid deployments, or even all-cloud based solutions. Organizations will be able to effectively support a global workforce no matter where data is stored. AvePoint stitches together your infrastructure seamlessly, allowing you to move and replicate content across environments as well as apply governance policies to your online and on-premise infrastructure.

Utilize the full power of AvePoint's solutions for infrastructure optimization to gain the most value from your IT investments!

Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, AvePoint Co-founder & Co-CEO

AvePoint is all in for social enterprise collaboration. Each one of our 1,300-plus employees are focused on helping organizations worldwide embrace collaboration and knowledge management with confidence in order to unleash the full potential of your workforce and drive innovation velocity in today’s truly global market.

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Path to Success with AvePoint

Infrastructure Management Governance Data Quality & Compliance Productivity

other major players to ensure we continue to offer solutions that support truly seamless enterprise collaboration, providing organizations the tools to utilize existing investments and overcome common inhibitors of social collaboration while mitigating risk to you and the clients you support. By consolidating management of content, users, access controls, and actual storage and communication infrastructure, AvePoint aims to simplify the implementation of enterprise-wide policies for governance, security, and compliance regardless of how stakeholders choose to collaborate anywhere, anytime.

Let us guide you down the Avenue to Success in 2013!

Refining Value and Improving Data Quality to Enable Compliance

The going expression is “don’t take your garbage with you”. The social focus for SharePoint 2013 will be making waves with the clients in your organizations. Let us start with a heat map of risk in your organization today, and refine the value of your content before migrating to SharePoint 2013.

Work with AvePoint to establish a risk management plan in place for your new SharePoint 2013 content. AvePoint Compliance Guardian – along with our complete Compliance Solutions (www.avepoint.com/compliance) – will not only be instrumental in our migration strategy for moving clients to SharePoint 2013, but also protecting the sensitivity, security, and records management of content.

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Enforcing Governance PoliciesToday, IT departments must commit to providing collaboration as a fundamental service to the business. Users do not feel inhibited from finding the right platform for collaboration regardless of who is providing the capability (such as Box.net, Dropbox, Office 365, and Google Docs). IT is competing to provide this service first for users, and similar to implementing governance standards for SharePoint, IT needs to support grass-roots collaboration with ease-of-use wherever it may begin. AvePoint is focused on getting your users excited and collaborating quickly, so get ahead of the problem by making our governance solutions part of your rollout or existing collaboration strategy.

By delivering common business requests such as creating collaborative environments, managing access controls, and sharing content as a service to business users, AvePoint’s governance solutions maintain and enforce governance policy compliance by surrounding the users with services offered, automatically assigning the appropriate permissions, backup, storage, archiving, auditing, expiration, and ownership policies to sites as they are provisioned, and can even ensure the sharing of content all occur within organizational guidelines.

Read more about AvePoint Solutions for IT Governance.

Reducing Risk to Enable Compliance

The social focus for collaborative platforms this year is already making waves in enterprises worldwide. The workforce’s culture is shifting away from isolation and refuses to look at inter-office or geographical borders as impediments to productivity. Once a common platform is established, businesses can thrive on the connectivity. However, with increased communication naturally follows increased density of data created as well as increased risk of who is saying the wrong things to whom.

From assessments and investigations to standards and enforcement, AvePoint is committed to identifying key content generated in the enterprise and making it accessible to people who should have access while securing it from people who shouldn’t. AvePoint automates access and controls enterprise-wide to mitigate the likelihood of incident while establishing a comprehensive program that not only reflects the priorities of the business, but also implements practices, procedures, and protection. If and when a breach does occur, AvePoint has the ability to swiftly detect, track, and respond and resolve that breach, ultimately driving hardened security controls to further mitigate the risk of a future breach.

Work with AvePoint to establish a risk management plan for your enterprise content. AvePoint Compliance Solutions will be instrumental in protecting the sensitivity, security, and records management of content while establishing a highly scalable framework to support any regional and industry compliance regulations and standards.

Enhanced ProductivityDeveloped to address productivity challenges, social collaboration platforms offer a variety of tools and functions, specifically targeting the new mobile and distributed workforce. In the latest release of SharePoint, for instance, Microsoft has added even more innovative features to transform the way knowledge workers add value in the enterprise. Many organizations are still searching for simple and reliable ways to consolidate and manage content. AvePoint’s launch of SharePoint 2013 App AvePoint MyView and revolutionary new reporting app built on Windows 8, DocAve Analytics, are just the start of our quest to dial back the noise of information and allow true knowledge in the enterprise to ring loudest.

Moving forward, AvePoint will release an entire new suite of mobile solutions targeting various collaboration platforms to enable collaboration with confidence even at the end points of collaboration, thus covering the entire spectrum of the enterprise collaboration and social data lifecycle on premises, in the cloud, and hybrid deployments – anytime and anywhere information workers need to have access to the right data.

We look forward to supporting you on your journey to enterprise collaboration with confidence!

For more information on AvePoint, please visit www.AvePoint.com.

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