Microsoft® Sharepoint® enables businesses to make sense of all that information, in all those different places and formats,  bringing them together in meaningful ways,  enabling people to work smarter

Sharepoint^® in Plain English

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Microsoft® Sharepoint^® is a collection of web technologies with a vast number of features which can benefit businesses in many ways.

Most organisations have many repositories of storing information and some are more easily managed than others. Information assets can be structured typically a database or unstructured such as Office documents, folders, web pages and emails. Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® enables structured and unstructured information to be pulled together into a meaningful business context.

We all occasionally feel a little overloaded by the volume of information, coming from many different sources. Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® can act as the glue or the enabler for people to share and work together with tools they already understand such as Microsoft^® Office^® or SQL Server^®.

Business benefits

• The right information is reaching the right people in your enterprise

• Automate and streamline business processes

• People to share content and collaborate with a meaningful business context such as teams, projects or departments

• A managed web site layer which dramatically reduces the time to develop a business web site by simplifying the process

Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® features

• Collaboration: Share structured and unstructured information within teams,groups or projects

• Portals: Consolidate information and improve access to enterprise content

• Searching: Search your enterprise for specific content

• Business Intelligence: Present graphical content and track KPI’s within a digital dashboard using Microsoft^® Excel^®

• Business Process Management: Automatic document routing around your enterprise using electronic forms such as expense, holiday request and new product specifications

• Content Management: Store documents and data in libraries and lists to dramatically reduce the time to manage, search and access content

Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® comes in three different flavours to meet all sizes and manner of businesses and requirements. It is worth mentioning that all 3 different versions can be mixed dependant on an individual’s requirements:

• Windows Sharepoint^® Services: Is the FREE version(That’s right FREE) and it is the place to start. This version provides primarily collaboration and document management features. Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® sits on top of Sharepoint^® Services, meaning when you perform an upgrade nothing is lost. Individual sites can be built up to meet individual requirements

• Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® Server – Standard: Sites can build up creating navigation and information access problems. A portal provides a management layer to consolidate content and navigate around complex Sharepoint^® web site. Additional features include business process management, personalisation and enterprise searching

• Microsoft^® Sharepoint^® Server – Enterprise: Builds on previous version providing advance features such as Electronic Forms, Business Intelligence, Excel Services and KPI Lists

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