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“Microsoft SharePoint is a document management and collaboration platform that helps companies manage archives, documents, reports and other content that is vital to the business process. Industries in all sectors use SharePoint, but the platform focuses on enterprise content management. SharePoint use cases can be found in any department within an organisation.”
– From Microsoft SharePoint by Margaret Rouse
SharePoint is becoming a crucial tool for any business, long running or brand new, to implement and use within their company. It not only provides a company with the ability to create and share documents and content with one another, but also provides a powerful set of development tools that can elevate a simple file storage solution in to a full fledged intranet environment, complete with dashboards and apps that function alongside the internal workings of a companies structure. We strive to provide an easy platform for businesses to access SharePoint and if Office 365, by providing training and development opportunities to help you achieve your goals.
Microsoft SharePoint has been around since 2001 and is one of the top business collaboration resources today. However, it wasn’t until the SharePoint 2007 release that businesses really started to harness the power of online collaboration. Microsoft released the final versions of its SharePoint Server 2016 and Office Online Server products in May of 2016 and it was a significant release by the software giant, as SharePoint 2016 includes several new capabilities for end users, IT professionals, as well as administrators. Many have already said that SharePoint Server 2016 is the most reliable, scalable, secure, and highest-performing SharePoint Server release ever.
1. Provide 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 content, processes and business data. This tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates product adoption.
2. Simplify 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.
3. Help Meet Regulatory Requirements
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively. And, you can reduce litigation risk for your organisation.
4. Effectively Manage and Re-purpose Content
Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.
5. Simplify Access to Business Data
Give your users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems 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.
6. Connect 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.
7. Accelerate 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.
8. 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.
9. Enable Employees to make Better-informed Decisions
SharePoint makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities, such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs) and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets or KPIs.
10. Provide a Single, Integrated Platform
SharePoint is built on an open, scalable architecture with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The service has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.
This information was provided by New Horizons Computer Learning Centres
Please refer to this article:Top 10 Business Benefits of Microsoft SharePoint
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