What is SharePoint 2010?
SharePoint is a web based collaboration platform that offers a
feature rich, easy to manage and user friendly way to connect
people with teams and information. Whether it's to improve
communications and information sharing with your staff, teams,
suppliers and customers - the business benefits of using SharePoint
are vast.
SharePoint is designed for web portals, public websites,
intranets and extranets, and its features include document
management, content and asset management, business intelligence and
reporting, collaboration and enterprise search.
SharePoint - save time and money, and increase
productivity
Research suggests that a whopping 25% of our working day is
wasted looking for information. Where we don't find it, we are more
likely to go on to spend time creating duplicate materials which
possibly exist elsewhere. Poor information architecture (how
content is organised) and disparate or difficult to use systems
only add to the pain. SharePoint organises your content logically,
and targets relevant information to specific users, so everything
becomes easier to find, fast.
SharePoint is the ideal collaboration toolkit which helps people
save time and connects them to others, to teams, and to relevant
information.
How might you use SharePoint?
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Secure mini-sites for geographically disparate teams or the Board
can be easily created, allowing members to upload project
documents;
- Online forms can be created and
published, allowing users to complete and submit them quickly and
in line with business process workflows;
- Content can be tagged and
automatically indexed, providing users with rapid and relevant
search results;
- Reporting on business intelligence
can be provided through a user-friendly digital dashboard that
gives you an at-a-glance view of performance and sales
information;
- Integration with Microsoft Office
allows you to eliminate network drive shares, and use SharePoint as
a central repository of documents and information;
- Content can be easily managed by
non-technical staff, with minimal training, and the whole platform
can be managed by IT;
- Digital asset management handles
images, multimedia and brand related materials securely, with
access being flexibly and easily controlled.
As well as being a solid collaboration platform, SharePoint is
very capable of integrating to your other business systems. It can
be customised to provide CRM data, as well as business intelligence
dashboards which give you an 'at a glance' view of performance and
sales information.
