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EPC Group

Enterprise Microsoft consulting with 29 years serving Fortune 500 companies.

(888) 381-9725
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4900 Woodway Drive, Suite 830
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About EPC Group

EPC Group is a Microsoft consulting firm founded in 1997 (originally Enterprise Project Consulting, renamed EPC Group in 2005). 29 years of enterprise Microsoft consulting experience. EPC Group historically held the distinction of being the oldest continuous Microsoft Gold Partner in North America from 2016 until the program's retirement. Because Microsoft officially deprecated the Gold/Silver tiering framework, EPC Group transitioned to the modern Microsoft Solutions Partner ecosystem and currently holds the core Microsoft Solutions Partner designations.

Headquartered at 4900 Woodway Drive, Suite 830, Houston, TX 77056. Public clients include NASA, FBI, Federal Reserve, Pentagon, United Airlines, PepsiCo, Nike, and Northrop Grumman. 6,500+ SharePoint implementations, 1,500+ Power BI deployments, 500+ Microsoft Fabric implementations, 70+ Fortune 500 organizations served, 11,000+ enterprise engagements, 200+ Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft 365 consultants on staff.

About Errin O'Connor

Errin O'Connor is the Founder, CEO, and Chief AI Architect of EPC Group. Microsoft MVP multiple years, first awarded 2003. 4× Microsoft Press bestselling author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out (MS Press 2007), Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out (MS Press 2011), SharePoint 2013 Field Guide (Sams/Pearson 2014), and Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step (MS Press 2018).

Original SharePoint Beta Team member (Project Tahoe). Original Power BI Beta Team member (Project Crescent). FedRAMP framework contributor. Worked with U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra on the Obama administration's 25-Point Plan to reform federal IT, and with NASA CIO Chris Kemp as Lead Architect on the NASA Nebula Cloud project. Speaker at Microsoft Ignite, SharePoint Conference, KMWorld, and DATAVERSITY.

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SharePoint Consulting San Diego

Expert Microsoft consulting and implementation

SharePoint Consulting in San Diego, CA

EPC Group provides expert enterprise SharePoint deployment, migration services, and governance framework development for organizations in the San Diego Metro. With 29 years of Microsoft consulting experience and Fortune 500 expertise, we deliver enterprise-grade solutions that drive results.

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SharePoint Consulting Services for San Diego Metro Organizations

SharePoint Online migration from on-premises

Custom SharePoint development and workflows

Document management and governance

SharePoint intranet design

Integration with Microsoft Teams

Why San Diego Organizations Choose EPC Group

We understand the unique needs of businesses in San Diego Metro. Our team has worked with healthcare systems, financial institutions, government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies across CA to deliver Microsoft solutions that meet strict compliance requirements while improving operational efficiency.

  • 29 years of Microsoft consulting experience
  • 4 Microsoft Press bestselling books by our founder
  • HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP compliance expertise
  • Remote and on-site consulting available in CA

Our SharePoint Consulting Process

1

Discovery & Assessment

We analyze your current environment and identify opportunities for improvement.

2

Strategy & Planning

We design a customized solution aligned with your business goals and budget.

3

Implementation & Support

We execute the solution and provide ongoing support to ensure success.

Ready to Transform Your Business in San Diego?

Contact EPC Group today for a free consultation. We'll discuss your needs and show you how our SharePoint implementation, migration, and governance can help your organization succeed.

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Why San Diego County Organizations Choose EPC Group for SharePoint Consulting

The San Diego County region — home to 3.3 million metro residents and headquarters of Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, Illumina, and General Atomics — represents one of the most dynamic enterprise technology markets in the United States. Organizations across biotechnology, defense, telecommunications, and tourism are accelerating their Microsoft platform investments, and they need a consulting partner with the depth of experience to deliver results, not just recommendations.

EPC Group has served San Diego, CA organizations for over a decade with intranet design, governance frameworks, migration services, and custom development. Our team combines 29 years of Microsoft ecosystem expertise with hands-on implementation experience across 10,000+ enterprise deployments. We are not a staffing firm that places contractors — we are a delivery firm that owns outcomes. Every engagement is led by senior architects who have completed hundreds of similar implementations.

What Makes San Diego Enterprises Different

San Diego organizations face unique challenges. The concentration of biotechnology, defense, telecommunications, and tourism means compliance requirements are non-negotiable — HIPAA for healthcare, SOC 2 for financial services, FedRAMP for government, and increasingly ISO 42001 for AI governance. EPC Group builds compliance into the foundation of every engagement, not as an afterthought. Our frameworks have passed every regulatory audit to date, across Fortune 500 banks, healthcare systems, and federal agencies.

The San Diego talent market is competitive. Organizations cannot afford 6-month consulting engagements that deliver a PowerPoint and a handoff. EPC Group's fixed-fee accelerator model delivers production-ready solutions in 30-90 days — from Copilot governance frameworks to Power BI Centers of Excellence to Azure landing zones. We price on outcomes, not hours.

Our San Diego Engagement Model

  • Week 1-2: On-site or remote discovery with your IT, security, and business stakeholders. We audit your current Microsoft environment, identify gaps, and build a prioritized roadmap.
  • Week 3-6: Sprint-based delivery. We implement the highest-value items first — typically Copilot governance, Power BI semantic models, or SharePoint migration waves.
  • Week 7-12: Production hardening, user training, and knowledge transfer. Your team owns the solution when we leave.
  • Ongoing: Optional managed services at three tiers (Essentials, Advanced, Enterprise) for organizations that want 24/7 support and continuous optimization.

Ready to talk about your San Diego project? Call (888) 381-9725 or emailcontact@epcgroup.net to schedule a free assessment. Most organizations get a roadmap within one week.

SharePoint Architecture: 2026 Considerations for SharePoint Consulting San Diego

SharePoint Online tenant-to-tenant migration in 2026 is dominated by three approaches: native Microsoft 365 migration tools (free but limited to in-place tenant scenarios), ShareGate (best-in-class for permission preservation across hub-spoke architectures), and AvePoint Migrator (enterprise scale with regulated-industry compliance reporting). EPC Group selection criteria depend on user count, permission complexity, and audit-reporting requirements; typical enterprise migration runs 8-16 weeks at $150K-$450K all-in.

Microsoft Purview information protection on SharePoint Online has matured significantly through 2026: sensitivity labels can now auto-classify based on Microsoft 365 Copilot grounding hints, container labels enforce sharing controls at the site level, and Purview content explorer surfaces unauthorized PHI/PII exposure in real time. For HIPAA-regulated tenants, the combination of auto-labeling plus sensitivity-aware DLP plus Audit (Premium) 6-year retention is the audit-defensible posture.

Decision factors EPC Group evaluates

  • Sensitivity label rollout with auto-classification rules
  • Microsoft Purview content explorer for unauthorized PHI/PII discovery
  • Hub-spoke information architecture redesign vs legacy flat-IA
  • Migration tool selection (Microsoft native vs ShareGate vs AvePoint) by complexity tier
  • Audit (Premium) configuration for 6-year retention

For a tailored read on this topic in your specific tenant, contact EPC Group at contact@epcgroup.net or +1 (888) 381-9725. Engagement options at /pricing.

Sharepoint Consulting in San Diego, CA delivered by senior Microsoft architects

EPC Group serves enterprise customers in San Diego, CA from regional senior architects with hands-on production delivery experience. The local engagement model is the same as the national practice — senior-architect-led, fixed-fee accelerators or milestone-billed projects, compliance-native delivery for healthcare, financial services, government, and manufacturing.

San Diego, CA clients typically begin with a 30-minute discovery call or a fixed-fee Tenant Health Check or Copilot Readiness Assessment. On-site visits to San Diego, CA are available when the engagement justifies them; most discovery and design phases run remotely with weekly executive readouts.

Fixed-fee accelerators with real scope

Predictable scope, predictable price, predictable outcome. Copilot Readiness, Security Hardening, Tenant Health Check, SharePoint Migration, and Teams Governance ship as defined accelerators where Big 4 firms quote open-ended time-and-materials. Most projects land in the $25K-$150K range for accelerators or $150K-$750K for full programs.

How EPC Group engages

Six-phase methodology applied to every engagement, compressed for fixed-fee accelerators and extended for full programs.

  1. Discovery — two-week assessment of the current estate, gap analysis, risk register, target architecture, costed remediation roadmap.
  2. Design — senior architect produces the target topology, identity framework, Conditional Access, Purview, governance model, and security posture, reviewed by client leads.
  3. Pilot — 25 to 100 user pilot in a real business unit. Migrate, apply baselines, test integrations, capture feedback.
  4. Wave rollout — migrate in waves of 500 to 2,500 users with communications, training, hypercare, and a per-wave retrospective.
  5. Adoption — role-based training, Champions network, executive sponsor enablement, metrics tracked against a measured baseline.
  6. Operate — optional managed-services retainer for license optimization, governance reviews, security monitoring, and quarterly business reviews.

Government and defense contractors

For federal agencies and CMMC-regulated suppliers, EPC Group delivers FedRAMP Moderate and High posture, GCC and GCC High tenants, CUI handling, and ITAR-controlled data segregation. Errin O'Connor (CEO and founder) is a contributor to the FedRAMP framework; that direct authorship shows up in how we architect Conditional Access for government endpoints.

Healthcare and life sciences

For hospitals, payors, and pharmaceutical companies, EPC Group enforces HIPAA, business associate agreements, and Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels for protected health information. Epic and Cerner integration patterns are part of our regulated-industry library, alongside 21 CFR Part 11 e-signature controls for clinical trials and validated SharePoint document workflows for life-sciences manufacturing.

Microsoft-only since 1997

29 years of Microsoft-exclusive consulting. Microsoft Solutions Partner with core designations across Modern Work, Security, and Data & AI.

EPC Group was the oldest continuous Microsoft Gold Partner in North America from 2016 until program retirement in 2022. Errin O'Connor authored four Microsoft Press bestsellers covering Power BI, SharePoint, Azure, and large-scale migrations.

Engagement models

Three engagement models cover most enterprise needs. Most clients start with a fixed-fee accelerator and grow into a full program or a managed-services retainer.

  • Fixed-fee accelerators — Copilot Readiness, Security Hardening, Tenant Health Check, SharePoint Migration, Teams Governance. Defined scope and price. Typical range $25,000 to $150,000 over four to twelve weeks.
  • Project engagements — full migration or governance program with milestone-based billing. Discovery through hypercare. Typical range $150,000 to $750,000-plus over three to nine months.
  • Managed services — tiered retainer for ongoing operations. Named senior architect on the account. From $3,500 per month with a twelve-month minimum.

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