About us

The SharePoint Initiative is based in the historic city of Lancaster in the north west of England. The Initiative was developed by two IT consultants, one an MCTS SharePoint Consultant and the other business focused. Whilst discussing the SharePoint market and the consultancy industry as a whole they highlighted how many SharePoint consultants seemed to work on a range of projects and when working via traditional consultancies were often billed out at over double the amount they would have charged for the same job directly.

The primary causes of this was an over reliance on “middle men” along with many consultancies using out of date methods, carrying a lot of unnecessary fixed costs or being guilty of focusing on company image rather than the delivery of the service needed.

They then looked at creating a business model from scratch truly considering the client and consultants needs whilst keeping costs to a minimum by using the latest collaborative and web content technologies. These cost savings and the focus on keeping the service targeted and clear meant great value service could always be offered to the client. Having realised that consultants could be getting a better hourly rate whilst saving the client money they decided to set up The SharePoint Initiative. The SharePoint Initiative is a UK provider of SharePoint consultants.