Benefits of Using a Collaborative Intranet and Where SharePoint Fits In
The capabilities of SharePoint work together to help your company quickly respond to changing business needs. Using SharePoint your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs, and find the right business information to make better decisions. For IT, SharePoint helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort, and focus on higher business priorities. For the business, SharePoint acts like a true digital workplace and hub where you get instant access to the knowledge, information and tools you need to do your job.
Productivity:
SharePoint helps your people be more productive. It offers a familiar Microsoft Office experience so that people can quickly and easily access the business information they need to get their jobs done with two forms of collaboration: Office Groups and Yammer. The need for a governance plan around these initiatives is a key for a successful deployment.
Cost Savings:
SharePoint helps you reduce costs by consolidating intranet, extranet, and Internet sites on a single platform—on-premise or in the cloud.
Responsiveness:
SharePoint gives you the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box applications and a platform for customized solutions, although with the recent release of Office 365, the idea of configuring is much more appealing than a customized solution. You can use SharePoint out of the box or quickly create custom, secure and easy-to-use solutions for your specific needs. The reason SharePoint has a poor reputation in certain circles is the fact that so many organizations customize the platform which makes it difficult to migrate from one version to the upgraded version. Think configure versus customize.
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9 年Jeff Willinger our company uses Office 365 and SharePoint is the perfect space for setting up collaborative work spaces for customers. We have set up a few sites for customers and they love it. The work space is secure. We are hoping to introduce more customers to this approach.
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9 年Love seeing your posts Jeff Willinger.
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9 年Thanks for sharing Jeff. It is nice to read these types of articles about SharePoint. If I may also add, I think many organizations customize SharePoint without ever putting together a proper strategy for future migration (in regards to those customized enhancements). I recommend a proactive approach to determine if customizations are being implemented for a functional purpose or more simply, cosmetic design. As the platform evolves, many of these cosmetic customizations can be ignored, leaving the primary focus of the migration on content and functional customizations (custom apps / web parts / web artifacts / etc.).