SharePoint Overview
As a Microsoft certified partner Arekibo team of consultants and developers offer our Microsoft SharePoint (MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0) services to our clients. SharePoint products and technologies provide enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, and enabling better informed decisions.
What is Sharepoint?
SharePoint is an excellent application for creating collaborating tools that enable organisations to collaborate, and share information through a flexible, scalable and innovative system. In an era where ensuring costs are minimised; SharePoint helps organisations harness a suite of powerful features helping to reduce overheads, leverage existing investments by integrating into the Microsoft Office suite.
How can Arekibo and SharePoint help your business?
Through the use of a web based system SharePoint enables any organisation centralise and harness a suite of tool tools to create a powerful collaborative system that enables the organisation to share, collaborate and track the creation of information. Out of the box, SharePoint provides the following features:
- Web Access: SharePoint is a browser based application that reduces administrators from time consuming installations and maintenance tasks. SharePoint also offers alternate access if you want to make your portal accessible from outside the boundaries of your local area network for external users without the need for VPNs.
- Secure Document Libraries: users can save documents and collaborate on them without fear of unauthorised access or accidental overwriting/deletion. Using the versioning feature, every new version of the document will be saved without overwriting the previous one allowing future retrieval when required.
- Discussion Boards: users can share their opinions or ideas in a visible spot rather than sending emails also ensuring that the information is preserved over time.
- Email/Automatic notification: users can subscribe themselves to receive automated notifications from SharePoint whenever a change is applied to an item of their interest such as documents, events, announcements or tasks. If required, notifications can be forced to relevant parties
- Security: protecting your environment from unauthorised access is paramount to safeguard your business. SharePoint supports integration with many authentication systems including Microsoft Active Directory (Windows domains), LDAP and other authentication providers. - Integration with Microsoft Office: SharePoint, as part of the Office suite, integrates natively with applications like MS Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Workflows: Within SharePoint there is a workflow system which if used effectively can eliminate the need for long trails of emails. SharePoint can be used to manage the flow of information within the company. - Collaboration SharePoint collaborative tools allow employees and team to work together effectively, to collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, track issues, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
- Portals: SharePoint enables the creation of personalised portal that enable users to share information with others and personalise their sites - Enterprise Search SharePoint allows organisations to implements enterprise search to quickly and easily find content available in the system. - Enterprise Content Management SharePoint offers an organisation the ability to create and manage content.
- Business Intelligence: SharePoint allows employees to easily access critical business information though a secure system, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.