SharePoint/.NET Development

Building Solutions "THE RIGHT WAY"

Our passion and expertise is solving business problems for the world’s leading companies using the latest technology.  LiquidFrameworks is a leading professional services firm that delivers highly-engineered software solutions for a variety of industries with a special focus on the oil and gas sector.

Simply put, LiquidFrameworks uses the right tools for the job and has the experience and expertise to build solutions the right way, not try and conform your process to the limitations of a particular product. From appropriate application of tools and technologies, storing data in fully-normalized databases, enabling replication and smart-clients, developing custom controls where SharePoint or 3rd-party components lack necessary features, to integration of Business Process Management engines to augment workflow processing, LiquidFrameworks has the experience and expertise to make the right call when architecting and building solutions.

“LiquidFrameworks easily surpassed the capabilities of our legacy solution, and the entire process was accomplished without disruption to our operations. Management and users are thrilled.”

LiquidFrameworks has built scientific, business process, financial, oil and gas, and many other business solutions using this approach. The solutions utilize state-of-the-art components, BPM engines, visualization and mapping tools, and other components to perform complex management of business processes that are integrated with the entire enterprise.  Let us come show you some of our solutions and how our approach to building using SharePoint can help you.

LiquidFrameworks and Microsoft SharePoint

The powerful tools within SharePoint allow organizations to rapidly deploy collaboration sites comprised of out of the box components or mash-ups of built-in and purchased components. While this does have advantages, several problems frequently appear in such solutions:
  • Sites often grow organically or are not designed from a maintenance standpoint
  • Lack of scalability
  • Inability to accommodate more complex workflows or business processes beyond the simple, out of the box SharePoint workflows
  • Limitations imposed by the lack of capability of components
  • Inability or limitations on integration with other business systems
  • Difficulty in reporting with data scattered in various lists and sites
LiquidFrameworks has been working with collaboration and content management tools for years, and has been utilizing Microsoft SharePoint since its first version. We have built a large number of environments and solutions using this incredibly powerful tool, and our expertise and internally developed toolkit give us a powerful advantage in this arena. This depth of experience and knowledge give us the ability to engineer and build SharePoint solutions “The Right Way”
 
The LiquidFrameworks approach to application delivery using SharePoint is unique across all software development firms. Our SharePoint delivery framework, The LiquidFramework for SharePoint (LFS™) has been developed and refined over seven years on numerous projects. The framework provides significant advantages over the traditional SharePoint development approach used by other firms.
 
"LiquidFrameworks Automates Projects and Process, Not Documents"

Most businesses today are using Sharepoint technology because of its powerful tools and integration capabilities, but along with these advantages come potential pitfalls - the open-ended nature and flexibility often lead to unstructured usage and can result in confusion or loss of corporate knowledge.

Simultaneously, many business have looked to Business Process Management (BPM) tools as mechanisms to automate their business processes.  Although extremely capable, these tools, when used in a Sharepoint context, mostly integrate with project documents and not the projects themselves. 

What is needed is something that marries the power of collaboration with the process control and leverage of BPM tools.  When done properly, this merger results in a powerful fusion of a repeatable, streamlined process enabled by virtual teams and knowledge management capabilities.  We refer to this melding as Collaboration Process Management™, and have successfully applied this approach many times.