A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Creative SharePoint, Ltd., announced today the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas. Delivering the technological know-how and power of Microsoft's SharePoint product with an artistic flair, Creative SharePoint (http://www.creative-sharepoint.com ) is a unique SharePoint consultancy working hand in hand with a creative design agency. Creative SharePoint was recognized as the leading SharePoint VAR in the UK for 2007 and has done work for notable finance giant Barclays Bank, wireless leader O2, a leading independent provider of business-to-business mail services, DX.

"The world truly has become very small indeed with the Internet and all of the great communication tools we have at our fingertips. SharePoint is such a fantastic collaboration and business productivity tool and is on the forefront of changing the way we manage our businesses today. It is a pleasure to be able to expand our services to the United States where we have had so many inquiries and requests to help implement and brand SharePoint for business leaders", commented managing director of Creative SharePoint, Oliver Stickley.

The US-based Creative SharePoint business is being directed by Michael Tucker, president, and Susan Booth, chief information officer. Tucker was formerly vice president of sales with TOPAZ Technologies. Booth is the former director of web technology and software development for Hoover's, Inc., a D&B company.

Tucker stated: "In performing our due diligence with this opportunity, we found that SharePoint is the fastest selling Microsoft product in history." "It was apparent that over 85% of the contacts we spoke with in the information technology industry were either implementing or planning to implement SharePoint in the next two years. Facts like that made a compelling argument for starting a business to support these efforts."

"Microsoft has made an incredible leap in integration of its Office products with the latest SharePoint release, MOSS 2007. After reviewing the success of Creative SharePoint in the UK with these products, we knew that we had a great model and a winning team to build on that success in the US", added Booth.

Creative SharePoint's Austin-based US offices already has generated interest from across the nation in providing implementation and custom development services to multiple industries.