The key to success for any business that is spread across geographically or has large teams is to have an efficient collaboration infrastructure in place. SharePoint is designed from the grounds up to be an effective collaboration platform and organizations using SharePoint have seen many benefits:
Higher ROI – SharePoint acts as a single platform to consolidate various processes and integrate with other legacy applications to ensure maximum return on investment. In built features like records management, document management, search, workflows, portals, personalized sites, information rights management, business intelligence and KPI dashboards, single sign-on etc enable customers to manage all their process using a single, easy to use platform and reduces the cost of maintaining multiple teams for managing multiple products & platforms.
Super fast application development – With a single feature rich application platform, organizations save time and money by building enterprise applications at less than half the normal development time lines. Many features like security, reporting dashboards, workflow support etc, are built into SharePoint and allow the developers to focus only on the core processes & features required by users.
Access to more information –customers can easily integrate with different Line-of-
Business applications like Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, and Siebel and provide a single consolidated view of processes to their employees. KPI dashboards and BI capabilities allow management to get a bird’s eye overview of their business at a glance without switching applications.
Increased security of business information – Many organizations generate a tremendous volume of data everyday – how can you protect confidentiality and security of information in an open collaborative environment? SharePoint has built in features to manage site memberships and permissions, storage limits, content access policies etc at a global level. Information rights management allows organizations to secure and limit the content seen by users based on their role, geographic location, and group permissions.
These capabilities result in easier access to information, faster execution of business processes, increase people productivity and enhance the overall efficiency of the organization. This efficiency directly impact’s your organization’s bottom line by reducing the turnaround time of building products or delivering services, faster resolution of customer complaints, and better ability to manage more customers with the same or less resources.
Unlike other collaborative application, SharePoint has the benefit of being the easiest to use interface and self service capabilities that can be managed and administered by even non-technical users thereby reducing the overall cost of managing your IT infrastructure.
To know more about SharePoint, please browse to the following site: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint