United Nations agencies websites powered by Sharepoint

The websites of United Nations Development Program – Solutions Network of Asia Pacific (UNDP-SNAP) and United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) built with Sharepoint

The great gigantic sites http://www.snap-undp.org/ and http://www.unops.org/ already developed in Sharepoint, in order to:

  • Humanize user experience with feel of branding and look.
  • Modernizing the development with rich internet experience
  • Generalizing the content management system

The sites are heavily used over on internet, the folks of UNDP and UNOPS extensively developed, customized, branded the site one that cannot imagine the underlying supporting technology which was extended over on Internet web platform.

After bearing in mind a number of alternative solutions, UNDP made the conclusion to build its Solutions Network of Asia Pacific (SNAP) portal using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

From simple file sharing, e-mail messaging and phone communications, we have moved on and now have the capacity to share document libraries, participate in real-time discussion boards, have centralized communities of practice, and execute document check-in check-out using SharePoint Server 2007,” says Norman Sanders, Regional ICT Officer at UNDP Regional Centre, Bangkok.

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It’s a breathing of fresh air when a website loads fast and clean, two good examples are UNDP-SNAP and UNOPS sites, proved by creating websites on Sharepoint platform loads very quickly. The UNOPS site supports multiple languages like Spanish, French including English.

UNDP - Solution Networks of Asia-Pacific

UNDP – Solution Networks of Asia-Pacific

United Nations Office for Project Services

United Nations Office for Project Services