With Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform continuing to gain popularity around the world in all types of industries, it’s no wonder that it has become Microsoft’s alleged first $2 billion business according to Gartner research. But what exactly has lead to Microsoft SharePoint taking off and why has it been such a big hit in so many verticals?
Essentially at first glance, the ease of integrating Microsoft SharePoint into all Microsoft 365 Office products gives a great deal of confidence and convenience for all businesses who are looking for a company wide solution when it comes to long term goals of achieving peak efficiency and productivity across all divisions. In it’s simplicity however, Microsoft SharePoint acts as an all in one platform that allows organisations of all sizes to stay organized and on top of all short and long term tasks by segmenting divisions and staff. Specifically, SharePoint achieves this through being a; collaboration tool, company wide intranet, automation enabler and company content management system just to name a few features.
The SharePoint platform in it’s simplicity.
What Are The Practical Benefits Of SharePoint That Can Help My Business Though?
- Project Management
- Microsoft SharePoint first and foremost allows all staff members to create internal sites in order to manage any tasks or projects no matter what division they’re in. Informed business decisions will continue to be made as a result of the up to date information on projects being tracked, modified and as a result completed.
- Company Wide Intranet
- Microsoft SharePoint provides all tools necessary in order for any company to create and manage an intranet used to convey and communicate vital information that may affect one or all divisions and levels of staff within the organisation. It can also be used as a brainstorming platform as such for any ideas or concerns to be raised.
- Transparency Among Staff
- Going off the aforementioned benefit, being able to facilitate and provide such a platform will allow staff to achieve greater transparency between each other if any concerns or points of conflict are able to be resolved in an ethical manner. As well as this, the flip side could be seen as any productive collaboration between employees will be a much more immersive experience despite still being online as such. The ability for employees to track each others progress when it comes to tasks or divisional long term goals will keep them accountable and thus on track as such to reach any desired outcomes.
- Access To Vital Company Data
- Microsoft SharePoint not only allows collaboration between staff but also makes it a more accurate tool as access to company wide data will be available to all levels of staff. The ability to give users access to such data extracted from a common line of business systems e.g. CRM, which in turn will allow them to create personalized views of anything relevant to their role in once centralised location is the value SharePoint adds in this aspect.
- Secure Platform
- Microsoft SharePoint offers companies the peace of mind through the ability to protect any data stored on their platform from any unauthorized use. Permissions for all staff can be managed when it comes to document, folder and list access only giving relevant access to this data that need it for their role. As well as this, it goes without saying that the cloud server itself has been designed and encrypted with technological safeguards to ensure now data for any company cannot be compromised.
These are only a select few benefits and practical features that we have outlined here however, use this as a brief guide and starting point as to how SharePoint can immediately benefit your business. At Excite IT, we have partnered with Microsoft in order to truly provide a completely tailor made experience in all aspects of your IT infrastructure and ability that facilitates business growth and efficiency. We have worked extensively with clients in diverse industries to integrate solutions involving SharePoint into their growth strategies along with automation, cloud migration and managed services.
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