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HighPoint Solutions Selected by One of World's Largest Pharmaceutical Companies to Migrate 50+ Websites

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 General News
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Aug. 4 HighPoint Solutions LLC, apremier provider of business-driven IT solutions, today announced that it hasbeen selected by the one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies tomigrate more than 50 physician and consumer websites to ASP.NET 2.0 andMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. The migration to the newplatform will not only offer the existing functionality of the websites, butalso provide for long-term flexibility and scalability, as well as support andmaintenance.
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The web is a critical marketing channel for this client and its currentweb content management (WCM) environment has look-and-feel constraintsnegatively impacting its business units. To enable the business units toresume their steady-state process for enhancing their websites, an aggressivesix-month timeline has been developed. HighPoint Solutions is partnering withSierra Atlantic, a software development company, for the migration. SierraAtlantic has a dedicated Microsoft practice with significant experience inASP.NET development and MOSS development and customization.
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"With our preferred vendor status with this pharmaceutical leader andSierra Atlantic's platform-specific expertise, our combined team bringstogether a best-of-breed solution that cannot be matched," explained JohnJones, Application and Integration Solution lead at HighPoint Solutions."Our world-class team is fluent in both ASP.NET and MOSS and will be able todeliver a solution which will not only meet, but exceed the client'sexpectations for an agile and reusable web platform that also has a rigorousgovernance framework. Additionally, our expertise in change management andtraining will enable our client and its many agencies to begin making changesas soon the sites are migrated."

This multi-phase project will include defining and designing a sitemigration framework for migrating the combination of 56 consumer and physicianweb sites to the ASP.NET 2.0 and MOSS 2007 platforms. The HighPoint Solutionsteam will develop and test the framework; assist the client in its deployment,in User Acceptance Testing of the migrated sites and migrating data fromexisting sites to the proposed databases; and provide post-go live support andknowledge transition per site to the appropriate teams and agencies.

About HighPoint Solutions LLC

HighPoint Solutions is a premier provider of business-driven IT solutionsto more than 50 clients nationwide in the life science, healthcare andfinancial industries. The company provides business consulting, systemintegration and professional services, including onsite industry-specializedIT staffing, offshore resources, managed hosting and application supportservices.

HighPoint is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pa. with additional officesin New Jersey, Chicago, and California. For more information, visitwww.highpoint-solutions.com.` Contact: Karen Higgins Sagefrog Marketing (610) 831-5723 [email protected]

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