SharePoint Services

Microsoft’s SharePoint Online is a web based collaboration tool for businesses. It makes it easier for people to work together, enabling them to share documents online and create collaboration sites on the web. Some of the key uses include the creation of intranets, extranets, business intelligence queries on company data, management of web portal content on the fly and more. It comes with the usual Microsoft security, so companies can load their data into the Cloud and feel secure about it, then share it out to company users and even external portals for client login. It is also part of BPOS, if you choose that method of subscription but can be purchase separately, if required.

How would your business use SharePoint?

Most businesses will initially use SharePoint to house MS Office documents, spreadsheets, presentations, pictures, workflows, PDF’s, blogs and a knowledge base on a web portal site for their own employees. It comes with site search capabilities, email integration, calendar functions for events and resource planning, even social networking functions to bond a business together. The data would typically be sectioned by departments and companies can create views which group data for projects or specific types of work, rather than accessing it in the old way, through the old company s: drive . This creates an immediate speed improvement on the workflow of a business.

How would your business benefit from SharePoint?

Document and file sharing minimizing version problems

More productive workforce

Faster working environment

Secure data backed up online

Business continuity as you have access from any internet browser

Flexible working as users can access their data from home

Web access to all your data

Monthly subscription fee

Better on cash flow

No payment for future upgrades, as MS upgrade the software and hardware for free

99.9% SLA for uptime from MS

Microsoft multiple layers of security for your data

Can coexist with in house systems

Download the SharePoint overview and pricing