Top Reasons for Microsoft SharePoint’s Popularity

By | June 19, 2014

The Fortune 500 companies have understood the magic SharePoint can create for their business enterprise! From Collaboration and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) to BI (Business Intelligence) & Enterprise search, the flexibility of SharePoint is immense.

What SharePoint can do for you?

Today, nearly all business enterprises have an instance of SharePoint deployed as a collaboration platform and for enhanced security backed by none other than Microsoft itself. Your workforce can use their mobile devices and computers for communication amongst themselves and clients take informed decisions and coordinate even while on the move.

Collaboration Using SharePoint

1. Communication through Intranet and Extranet:

Whether it is client history or about on-going projects, varied levels of access can be granted to employees for up-to-date knowledge and seminars through the intranet.

The extranet can play a vital role as far as sharing useful and relevant business information with your partner company is concerned. They can access information they require and even share their own on such a secure platform.

2. Manage Websites:

SharePoint can be employed for managing websites and CMS (Content Management System) where you can add content or graphics, create pages or upgrade information, store documents or work on a single document simultaneously with your co-workers.

3. Collaboration between Clients and Work Force:

Sign in to SharePoint using your mobile device or desktop and get updated information on company projects and client history. This enables your employees to take informed decisions and increases client satisfaction.

Know about Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint

Now Microsoft Office tools such as Word and Excel are available through the cloud! So keep connected throughout, collaborate, edit and share documents in real time, even through your Smartphone and tablet, thanks to Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint (also referred to as SaaS — Software as a Service).

You can vouch for regular software updates too! Also, subscriptions are available in accordance with specific requirements of your business enterprise. You can also go in for SharePoint integration, SharePoint migration and SharePoint Customization for added functionality.

Proper planning is a prerequisite before you think of SharePoint deployment for your enterprise. From an SQL database, Active Directory, Internet Information Server (IIS), enterprise networking and Domain Name System (DNS), it is imperative for each of these components to function properly for optimized utilization of SharePoint tools.

However, we have to be realistic in our approach towards benefits we can derive from SharePoint for our business enterprise. There are so many applications within SharePoint that actually you have to define its utility for any business as per individual requirements. After all, SharePoint too has its own fair share of magic!

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