SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Business Benefits

•  SharePoint Simplifies Everyday Business Activities

Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking and reporting common business activities, such as document review and approval, issue tracking and signature collection. And, you can complete these activities without any coding. Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail and Web browsers provides you with a simple, consistent experience.

• SharePoint Provides a Simple, Familiar & Consistent User Experience

SharePoint is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with processes, content and business data.

• SharePoint Effectively Manage and Repurpose Contents of business

Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to internet or Intranet sites. Management of multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the different translations of a document and original version.

• SharePoint is a Way to Meet Regulatory Requirements

By specifying security settings, auditing/storage policies and expiration actions for business records in accordance with regulations, you can help ensure controlled and effective management of your important and sensible business information as well you can reduce litigation risk for your organization.

• SharePoint Simplifies Access to Business Data

Access to business data found in common line-of-business systems given to your users like Microsoft CRM through SharePoint. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections. Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.

• SharePoint Connects Employees with Information and Expertise

Enterprise Search incorporates business data along with information about documents, people and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction and alerts improve the relevance of the results so you can easily find what you need.

• SharePoint Accelerates Shared Business Processes

Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.

• SharePoint Enables to Share without Divulging Sensitive Information

Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services running on SharePoint. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents, such as financial models.

• SharePoint Enables Users/Employees to make Better-informed Decisions

SharePoint makes it easy to create live, interactive BI portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities, such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, KPIs and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets or KPIs.

• SharePoint Provides an Integrated Single Platform

SharePoint is built on an open, scalable architecture with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol. The service has rich, open application programming interfaces and event handlers for lists and documents. All above features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.