| Information is vital for organizations, whether it's | | | | reach to customers in a much more extensive |
| about the organization or the customers; the | | | | manner in a cost effective way. With user |
| competition; or the market. Organizations can't | | | | communities, blogs, wikis, mashups, RSS feeds, |
| work in silos and collaboration is a key result area | | | | surveys and other facebook like social applications, |
| for improving performance efficiency. SharePoint | | | | pan enterprise communication, information sharing |
| from Microsoft is an answer to the several | | | | and collaboration has reached a whole new level, |
| questions rose by the industry to resolve the | | | | helping organizations harness synergies, and |
| issue of information silos & improving | | | | reduce process and project turnaround times |
| collaboration. SharePoint can be seen as an | | | | making them more nimble and efficient |
| intranet used for streamlining data collaboration | | | | Project Management: Organizations across the |
| within organization more effective information | | | | world are striving for global reach and hence |
| sharing with secured access. It provides a | | | | scaling up their project volume. With multiple |
| centralized storage repository to make data | | | | ongoing projects the challenge to deliver on time |
| access faster, easier and in a much safer way. | | | | being profitable becomes tremendous. The |
| SharePoint emerged as a solution for many | | | | challenges organization face are Managing task and |
| organizational issues in concern with Document | | | | resource allocation, handling internal and external |
| management, Enterprise content management, | | | | communication, team management, disparate |
| Social applications, Project Management, Forms | | | | workflows and teams involved, language/cultural |
| and workflow management and many more | | | | barriers etc. To meet all of these challenges in a |
| industry wide challenges. SharePoint provides an | | | | comprehensive fashion, one needs a complete |
| effective mechanism integrates organizations | | | | project collaboration solution that allows for |
| irrespective of their capacities i.e. it provides | | | | centralized web based collaboration, document and |
| solutions to organization ranging from startups to | | | | content management platform, and provides |
| fortune 500 companies. | | | | phase wise project monitoring and reporting |
| Enterprise Content Management: With the amount | | | | dashboards, event triggered alerts, metadata and |
| of content that is being created daily by users | | | | tagging driven process workflows, and secure |
| within Enterprises, no wonder that there is a need | | | | access, all in a configurable, seamless, scalable and |
| for more and more sophisticated Enterprise | | | | extensible format. |
| Content Management solutions to organize, | | | | Document Management: With a plethora of |
| manage and search content within the enterprise. | | | | documents- both paper and digital, scattered |
| SharePoint Content management enables all users | | | | across your organization, information discovery |
| to participate in a governed, compliant content | | | | becomes very important to provide the right |
| management lifecycle. SharePoint Content makes | | | | information at the right time for your users. To |
| it possible to expertly balance user experience | | | | meet this specific challenge, a comprehensive |
| with policy and process. | | | | document management solution is preferred |
| Workflow & Form Management: Forms and | | | | which centralizes all of your enterprise documents |
| workflow automation provides an IT independent | | | | and provide ease of access along with a |
| self service mechanism allowing for automation of | | | | workflow, meta-data and security to seamlessly |
| eforms, process and approval workflows like | | | | manage your document management solutions. |
| those one comes across in HR, IT services and | | | | SharePoint provides plenty of control over your |
| the like. Leveraging Window's workflow | | | | data it allows managing access. |
| foundation, highly flexible, secure and scalable | | | | Conclusion: SharePoint solutions have defined the |
| form and workflow solutions can be implemented | | | | new paradigms for Enterprise collaboration which |
| in SharePoint that allow business users to | | | | is very effective in connecting the dots within |
| configure the forms and process flow, set alerts | | | | organizations. SharePoint allows you to share |
| and reminders, and change various parameters as | | | | information across groups, departments and |
| needed, in a centralized self service fashion | | | | teams by bridging the gaps and making |
| without having to depend on IT developers | | | | information flow more effective and efficient |
| continuous | | | | across the broad spectrum of users. |
| Social Application: Organization's are striving to | | | | |