Innovative Use of SharePoint in Different Field

United Airlines- Central Deployment

United Airlines is one of the well-known and leading airlines with over 85,000 employees, participated in the SharePoint Server 2013 Rapid Deployment Program. The program build to provide advice or feedback about the customer’s airline’s experience in its WAN environment. Simultaneously, it also allowed each customer to reduce their server footprint while providing an outstanding social collaboration experience. Moreover team developed a new procurement tool that is based on taxonomy and additional features in SharePoint 2013.

United Airlines’ team trust on SharePoint sites to complete job-related tasks including the 379 global airports. Even the whole route map for the airline which shows the geographic environment is served by a centralized SharePoint farm.

Ref: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh206325

University of West London - Social Learning

University of West London (UWL) decided to create a student portal by using SharePoint. A platform that allows students to interact with each other safely and which create academically driven environment.

To keep this thing in mind an online portal is created using SharePoint for better collaboration between staff, students and administration, and to make the things and services available at anytime, anywhere & from any device. The student portal has so many features, range of tools, services under one platform i.e. My UWL branding. (My Email, My Site, My SkyDrive, My School, My Noticeboard, My Connections, My Marks, My Timetable, My Personal Details, My Modules, My Pebble pad, My Calendar, My Graduation, My Software Deals).My site was similar to social networking platform like Facebook.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

University of Essex -Student Recruitment

University of Essex started 2 year SharePoint project to store and use the central students file. They replaced their paper based document record with an Electronic Student File hosted in SharePoint. A two year SharePoint project was started at university of Essex to store and use the University’s central student files for editing and updating files and other sources into a single electronic file. The aim of creating Electronic files is to keep them safe and they can never be misplaced or misfiled. With SharePoint it is also possible to manage registry process from initiation to completion.

By the time SharePoint used for monitoring academic selectors’ approval of applications, interview results and disability needs valuation. Which lead to significant savings in staff time and reduction in paper files.

After the implementation of electronic files for undergraduates, the University turned its attention to postgraduate applications. These benefits of SharePoint resulted into unexpectedly positive degree.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

D & M Holdings Inc. - Enhances Images, Cuts Cost 

D&M manufactures various brand of exclusive consumer electronics including Denon and Marantz. Now the company required to streamline the management of its brand website to increase the sales and reduce the cost. Hence D&M Holdings selected Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for internet sites. With the amazing feature of SharePoint the company has combined nine different platform into one, and created unified brand image. Resultant of it is website user experience has improved.

Ref: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/111176438/Omnie-Solutions-Implemented-MicroSoft-SharePoint-2010-for-D-and-M-Holdings-Company

Hence, this are some case studies defining the importance of SharePoint since many years, there are many more unique features of SharePoint which will lead users by surprise.

Innovative Use of SharePoint in Different Field

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United Airlines- Central Deployment

United Airlines is one of the well-known and leading airlines with over 85,000 employees, participated in the SharePoint Server 2013 Rapid Deployment Program. The program build to provide advice or feedback about the customer’s airline’s experience in its WAN environment. Simultaneously, it also allowed each customer to reduce their server footprint while providing an outstanding social collaboration experience. Moreover team developed a new procurement tool that is based on taxonomy and additional features in SharePoint 2013.

United Airlines’ team trust on SharePoint sites to complete job-related tasks including the 379 global airports. Even the whole route map for the airline which shows the geographic environment is served by a centralized SharePoint farm.

Ref: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh206325

University of West London - Social Learning

University of West London (UWL) decided to create a student portal by using SharePoint. A platform that allows students to interact with each other safely and which create academically driven environment.

To keep this thing in mind an online portal is created using SharePoint for better collaboration between staff, students and administration, and to make the things and services available at anytime, anywhere & from any device. The student portal has so many features, range of tools, services under one platform i.e. My UWL branding. (My Email, My Site, My SkyDrive, My School, My Noticeboard, My Connections, My Marks, My Timetable, My Personal Details, My Modules, My Pebble pad, My Calendar, My Graduation, My Software Deals).My site was similar to social networking platform like Facebook.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

University of Essex -Student Recruitment

University of Essex started 2 year SharePoint project to store and use the central students file. They replaced their paper based document record with an Electronic Student File hosted in SharePoint. A two year SharePoint project was started at university of Essex to store and use the University’s central student files for editing and updating files and other sources into a single electronic file. The aim of creating Electronic files is to keep them safe and they can never be misplaced or misfiled. With SharePoint it is also possible to manage registry process from initiation to completion.

By the time SharePoint used for monitoring academic selectors’ approval of applications, interview results and disability needs valuation. Which lead to significant savings in staff time and reduction in paper files.

After the implementation of electronic files for undergraduates, the University turned its attention to postgraduate applications. These benefits of SharePoint resulted into unexpectedly positive degree.

Ref: ucisa.ac.uk/groups/cisg/sharepoint

D & M Holdings Inc. - Enhances Images, Cuts Cost 

D&M manufactures various brand of exclusive consumer electronics including Denon and Marantz. Now the company required to streamline the management of its brand website to increase the sales and reduce the cost. Hence D&M Holdings selected Microsoft SharePoint 2010 for internet sites. With the amazing feature of SharePoint the company has combined nine different platform into one, and created unified brand image. Resultant of it is website user experience has improved.

Ref: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/111176438/Omnie-Solutions-Implemented-MicroSoft-SharePoint-2010-for-D-and-M-Holdings-Company

Hence, this are some case studies defining the importance of SharePoint since many years, there are many more unique features of SharePoint which will lead users by surprise.

Using JavaScript and jQuery in SharePoint 2013

Today blog is discussed by our guest blogger Alvin Ubiera. And it’s about JavaScript client-side object model (CSOM). It’s majorly focused on the basic operations and technologies of it. I find it quite an informative piece; so here I am sharing it with you all hope you find it interesting too.

In this article we will focus on using JavaScript client-side object model (CSOM) on a SharePoint 2013 Farm solution to do a basic operation (reading list data, and displaying it asynchronously in a web part).

The JavaScript CSOM was added to SharePoint 2010 . We will use it in a similar way in SharePoint 2013. If you have used this in SharePoint 2010 it will be similar concept for you.  For users who are new to this concept please review the MSDN blog and library (as mentioned below).

Using JavaScript and jQuery in SharePoint 2013

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Today blog is discussed by our guest blogger Alvin Ubiera. And it’s about JavaScript client-side object model (CSOM). It’s majorly focused on the basic operations and technologies of it. I find it quite an informative piece; so here I am sharing it with you all hope you find it interesting too.

In this article we will focus on using JavaScript client-side object model (CSOM) on a SharePoint 2013 Farm solution to do a basic operation (reading list data, and displaying it asynchronously in a web part).

The JavaScript CSOM was added to SharePoint 2010 . We will use it in a similar way in SharePoint 2013. If you have used this in SharePoint 2010 it will be similar concept for you.  For users who are new to this concept please review the MSDN blog and library (as mentioned below).

SharePoint: What is this, Its Feature Areas and How it Works?

In Today's I have decided to talk about a very general topic of SharePoint i.e. What SharePoint is all about and how it works etc. It will beneficial for who are looking for the basic information about. I would really appreciate if you could all suggest your views and thought over this topic. You can ask question and even give answers in order to keep the post alive and communicative. I would really appreciate the efforts. Nevertheless let's begin with today's post. 

Managing those data and critical information sometimes create chaos in an organization. Those digital data and web pages are sometimes difficult to manage even using those external portals, and other automated tools. Then how to get rid of it? With the demand of advanced computer technology and complexities it’s important to look for a solution which can handle such situations.

SharePoint: What is this, Its Feature Areas and How it Works?

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In Today's I have decided to talk about a very general topic of SharePoint i.e. What SharePoint is all about and how it works etc. It will beneficial for who are looking for the basic information about. I would really appreciate if you could all suggest your views and thought over this topic. You can ask question and even give answers in order to keep the post alive and communicative. I would really appreciate the efforts. Nevertheless let's begin with today's post. 

Managing those data and critical information sometimes create chaos in an organization. Those digital data and web pages are sometimes difficult to manage even using those external portals, and other automated tools. Then how to get rid of it? With the demand of advanced computer technology and complexities it’s important to look for a solution which can handle such situations.

Using SharePoint 2010 Development Services for Better ROI

Today's topic is discussed by our guest blogger, D R Sampath. He has written various articles related to technology and on software industry. Today he would like to tell us about SharePoint development and what all factors are responsible for its better growth and development. Lets read what he want to share with us - 

Several factors are responsible for making a business productive, successful and efficient. For successful achievement of the project goals and well-timed delivery of solutions, a concerned team needs to work strongly on each aspect. They need to make an effective collaborative or communication system with the aim to maintain the complete panel updated about every improvement according to the current market scenario and business needs. For this purpose, most of the organizations are looking to hire SharePoint 2010 development services of a professional body. Moreover, they want to use latest technologies and methods to make a business process more effective.

Professional developers are always ready to adopt essential changes in technology, trends, requirements, development methods, and business models. Usually, they need to communicate at every step and keep updated about modifications. Better co-ordination among team members can make a project work successful and generate better ROI (Return on Investment) for their clients. Expert developers or designers of a top IT company have knowledge and capability in creating different SharePoint solutions like interactive rich internet apps, intranet solutions, student management portal, HR solutions, extranet solutions, vendor management portal, enterprise content management solutions, distant learning solutions, data migration solutions, custom solution and many more.

SharePoint 2010 development framework provides a single web-based platform and a collaborative work team environment to the users. As well as, with built-in search capabilities, it helps users to find valuable data or information more successfully compared to the traditional file sharing system. Using feature-rich SharePoint 2010 version, many IT companies are offering excellent SharePoint software development services and a reliable platform to the business people.

Nowadays, most of the small and big organizations are relying on highly secure, cost-effective, customized and scalable SharePoint solutions for optimum business performance. Indeed, SharePoint services and solutions ensure the better ROI with a great user experience. It offers a lot of possibilities and opportunities for a successful industrial process. Using this platform, users can easily manage content or data throughout the information life cycle. On the other hand, it allows business organizations to quickly respond to varying market condition as well as customer needs by building data-driven decisions and deploying customized solutions securely and fast.

Besides, it is very important for you to hire an experienced and professional SharePoint development company for top-quality business results by increasing profits. A top IT company has a team of skilled and highly qualified developers to build secure, robust and exclusive applications. They have a vast knowledge of all critical technologies (Silverlight, Dot Net, SQL Server, DirectX(r) and so on), innovative development methods and utilization of different SharePoint versions. Using latest SharePoint version, most of the IT companies have become successful by creating best possible business results and revenue for different clients.

Using SharePoint 2010 Development Services for Better ROI

Posted by Sophina Dillard No comments

Today's topic is discussed by our guest blogger, D R Sampath. He has written various articles related to technology and on software industry. Today he would like to tell us about SharePoint development and what all factors are responsible for its better growth and development. Lets read what he want to share with us - 

Several factors are responsible for making a business productive, successful and efficient. For successful achievement of the project goals and well-timed delivery of solutions, a concerned team needs to work strongly on each aspect. They need to make an effective collaborative or communication system with the aim to maintain the complete panel updated about every improvement according to the current market scenario and business needs. For this purpose, most of the organizations are looking to hire SharePoint 2010 development services of a professional body. Moreover, they want to use latest technologies and methods to make a business process more effective.

Professional developers are always ready to adopt essential changes in technology, trends, requirements, development methods, and business models. Usually, they need to communicate at every step and keep updated about modifications. Better co-ordination among team members can make a project work successful and generate better ROI (Return on Investment) for their clients. Expert developers or designers of a top IT company have knowledge and capability in creating different SharePoint solutions like interactive rich internet apps, intranet solutions, student management portal, HR solutions, extranet solutions, vendor management portal, enterprise content management solutions, distant learning solutions, data migration solutions, custom solution and many more.

SharePoint 2010 development framework provides a single web-based platform and a collaborative work team environment to the users. As well as, with built-in search capabilities, it helps users to find valuable data or information more successfully compared to the traditional file sharing system. Using feature-rich SharePoint 2010 version, many IT companies are offering excellent SharePoint software development services and a reliable platform to the business people.

Nowadays, most of the small and big organizations are relying on highly secure, cost-effective, customized and scalable SharePoint solutions for optimum business performance. Indeed, SharePoint services and solutions ensure the better ROI with a great user experience. It offers a lot of possibilities and opportunities for a successful industrial process. Using this platform, users can easily manage content or data throughout the information life cycle. On the other hand, it allows business organizations to quickly respond to varying market condition as well as customer needs by building data-driven decisions and deploying customized solutions securely and fast.

Besides, it is very important for you to hire an experienced and professional SharePoint development company for top-quality business results by increasing profits. A top IT company has a team of skilled and highly qualified developers to build secure, robust and exclusive applications. They have a vast knowledge of all critical technologies (Silverlight, Dot Net, SQL Server, DirectX(r) and so on), innovative development methods and utilization of different SharePoint versions. Using latest SharePoint version, most of the IT companies have become successful by creating best possible business results and revenue for different clients.

10 important SharePoint tips that you can pin on a board

In the previous writing I shared about, How to manageMicrosoft SharePoint efficiently: Tips for IT managers. Today let’s talk about some tips and tricks that can be used for successful SharePoint deployments. Keep note, these tips are in no priority sequence –

1. Get Office 365: Using Office 365, it makes SharePoint far more reasonable and easy to implement and from this, you will have the great impression on all the smaller organizations.

2. The functionality: It starts with great functional analysis with the help of content management system, collaboration, search, business intelligence and portals that can represent all the mission-critical areas of effectiveness. It can assess each area for the functional fit within your organization.

3. Budgets should match the designed strategies: we all know putting money for resources, staff, later their trainings and change in management should match the goals of the organization that has set for its SharePoint environment.

4. Look for similar existing investments and be ready to streamline your portfolio accordingly: In this, it needs a standby or simultaneous strategy with the existing systems or a decision not to use SharePoint for any given workloads.

5. Be prepared for a period where you can have a little confusion: Yes, it’s true that it can lead to a chaos or confusion. User-generated content and user-developed applications will each provide some challenges but it will ultimately help the organizations to understand the greater value from SharePoint.

6. You have to support SharePoint and with its third-party add-ons: In this, SharePoint has some areas of very strong functionality and some areas where Microsoft's partner ecosystem must fill these cavities.

7. Don’t aim for any early moves but better understand the system: First implement these high-value workloads and establish operational stability and later you can move to any risky applications.

8. Integration is important and it should be done at a right time: The success of your IW completely depends on significant integration with those external line-of-business applications i.e. (AD&D) etc. for the data and other processes.

9. Customized development at first: Custom-made applications or codes are important and it should be designed in an environment which is under thorough and controlled style that does not compromise over workloads.

10. Deploy workloads only when you have the right skills to retain them: If you don't have the right resources to handle any particular workload, postponed it until you can do it correctly.

I hope these tips would help you for better working and functioning. Next time I share something interesting or some news regarding SharePoint. Till then make your system work flawless and smoothly. Adios!

10 important SharePoint tips that you can pin on a board

Posted by Sophina Dillard No comments

In the previous writing I shared about, How to manageMicrosoft SharePoint efficiently: Tips for IT managers. Today let’s talk about some tips and tricks that can be used for successful SharePoint deployments. Keep note, these tips are in no priority sequence –

1. Get Office 365: Using Office 365, it makes SharePoint far more reasonable and easy to implement and from this, you will have the great impression on all the smaller organizations.

2. The functionality: It starts with great functional analysis with the help of content management system, collaboration, search, business intelligence and portals that can represent all the mission-critical areas of effectiveness. It can assess each area for the functional fit within your organization.

3. Budgets should match the designed strategies: we all know putting money for resources, staff, later their trainings and change in management should match the goals of the organization that has set for its SharePoint environment.

4. Look for similar existing investments and be ready to streamline your portfolio accordingly: In this, it needs a standby or simultaneous strategy with the existing systems or a decision not to use SharePoint for any given workloads.

5. Be prepared for a period where you can have a little confusion: Yes, it’s true that it can lead to a chaos or confusion. User-generated content and user-developed applications will each provide some challenges but it will ultimately help the organizations to understand the greater value from SharePoint.

6. You have to support SharePoint and with its third-party add-ons: In this, SharePoint has some areas of very strong functionality and some areas where Microsoft's partner ecosystem must fill these cavities.

7. Don’t aim for any early moves but better understand the system: First implement these high-value workloads and establish operational stability and later you can move to any risky applications.

8. Integration is important and it should be done at a right time: The success of your IW completely depends on significant integration with those external line-of-business applications i.e. (AD&D) etc. for the data and other processes.

9. Customized development at first: Custom-made applications or codes are important and it should be designed in an environment which is under thorough and controlled style that does not compromise over workloads.

10. Deploy workloads only when you have the right skills to retain them: If you don't have the right resources to handle any particular workload, postponed it until you can do it correctly.

I hope these tips would help you for better working and functioning. Next time I share something interesting or some news regarding SharePoint. Till then make your system work flawless and smoothly. Adios!

How to manage Microsoft SharePoint efficiently: Tips for IT managers

SharePoint helps you to collaborate, share documents, construct internal and external websites of any enterprise platform and the most importantly ensures the ideal communication within the organization using it. While there are so many free and low cost tools and applications available in the market – such as Google Apps, Box.net and Hyper Office etc. Microsoft’s Share Point offers the improved security, feature set, advanced user interface and integration with Microsoft Office that is quite essential tool for many organization functional needs.

For small businesses, who want the familiarity of Microsoft can check out Microsoft Office 365. Still there are some points or tips that need to be considered for the optimal use of SharePoint in a company. They are:

1. Proper Planning: Planning is really important to take the further steps. It is important for better performance, delivering results and authentication etc. After deployment, it is most important step for building and maintaining SharePoint 2010.  It becomes misleadingly and complex when there is a lack of planning in the initial stages as well as in the long term planning which can cause pain points.

2.  Use site quota: It is one of the most underused features in SharePoint yet it is critical to maintain it for the proper functioning environment. It gives you an opportunity to ask the right set of queries in order to keep the content stored in SharePoint organized and new, while maintaining a supportable database. 

3.  Recycle bins consumed space outside the site: In this point, it has 2 categories for the recycle bins. In the first stage, it is used by user-recoverable contents; this uses space against the site collection quota. In the second one, it is used by the site collection administrator and/support staff to recover the content that may have been deleted and/or expired from the first stage recycle bin.

4. Understand its limitations: No doubt, it is extremely scalable and flexible depending on the deployment architecture, but it does have limitations. It comes with guidelines around limits and boundaries for SharePoint. A good rule of thumb is to stay within 50% of Microsoft’s suggested limits and boundaries.

5. Sizing Issues: When it comes to sizing disputes, then the consumed space and resources are need to be taken under consideration in the SharePoint environment. Especially for Searching, User Profiles allocation, Web Analytics and Usage and Health Services etc.

These are just few main pain-points that you face at downtime. If you follow these basic tips it will definitely ensure you to have low downtime and inactivity and will require minimal administrative resources for better performance.

How to manage Microsoft SharePoint efficiently: Tips for IT managers

Posted by Sophina Dillard No comments

SharePoint helps you to collaborate, share documents, construct internal and external websites of any enterprise platform and the most importantly ensures the ideal communication within the organization using it. While there are so many free and low cost tools and applications available in the market – such as Google Apps, Box.net and Hyper Office etc. Microsoft’s Share Point offers the improved security, feature set, advanced user interface and integration with Microsoft Office that is quite essential tool for many organization functional needs.

For small businesses, who want the familiarity of Microsoft can check out Microsoft Office 365. Still there are some points or tips that need to be considered for the optimal use of SharePoint in a company. They are:

1. Proper Planning: Planning is really important to take the further steps. It is important for better performance, delivering results and authentication etc. After deployment, it is most important step for building and maintaining SharePoint 2010.  It becomes misleadingly and complex when there is a lack of planning in the initial stages as well as in the long term planning which can cause pain points.

2.  Use site quota: It is one of the most underused features in SharePoint yet it is critical to maintain it for the proper functioning environment. It gives you an opportunity to ask the right set of queries in order to keep the content stored in SharePoint organized and new, while maintaining a supportable database. 

3.  Recycle bins consumed space outside the site: In this point, it has 2 categories for the recycle bins. In the first stage, it is used by user-recoverable contents; this uses space against the site collection quota. In the second one, it is used by the site collection administrator and/support staff to recover the content that may have been deleted and/or expired from the first stage recycle bin.

4. Understand its limitations: No doubt, it is extremely scalable and flexible depending on the deployment architecture, but it does have limitations. It comes with guidelines around limits and boundaries for SharePoint. A good rule of thumb is to stay within 50% of Microsoft’s suggested limits and boundaries.

5. Sizing Issues: When it comes to sizing disputes, then the consumed space and resources are need to be taken under consideration in the SharePoint environment. Especially for Searching, User Profiles allocation, Web Analytics and Usage and Health Services etc.

These are just few main pain-points that you face at downtime. If you follow these basic tips it will definitely ensure you to have low downtime and inactivity and will require minimal administrative resources for better performance.

Introduction to the SharePoint

Today with this increasing data-centric business climate, fear of data loss and data tampering, assigning the access to mission critical information to the specific users and with increasing complexities and data handling issues, etc. all we are looking for a robust, cost-effective, reliable and customized solution which can increase the productivity, enhance flexibility and improve control over the system and give us the desired results in the least possible time. All I can say answer to all these problems – Microsoft SharePoint. It integrates content management, social computing and search, enhances the user experience and easy adoption for them.

It is really important to have an effective custom application development for your organization. Microsoft SharePoint gives you a single, integrated location where your employees can easily find organizational resources, access corporate knowledge, and control the business insight so that they can take the better decisions. It offers an existing framework for publishing the content with an out-of-the-box administration. It also offers a complete search engine to search content and a portal for a user including single sign on. It has workflows to support business processes and a possibility to have insights into third application data.

SharePoint Pie: Let’s understand the pie chart of SharePoint which describes it services and features:

Why you need a SharePoint? 

If you want to find out whether you need a SharePoint service or not, just answer the following questions in yes or no –

• Having trouble managing projects and are considering buying an expensive project management solution?
• Do you keep all your emails in Outlook and wish you had a better place to store and archive them?
• Do you collaborate a lot on documents with others and find it difficult to know who has done what, and wish you could easily see earlier versions maybe even restore to earlier versions. Wouldn't it be great to tie documents to the projects they are associated with?
• Does your company deals with a lot of events, so you need a place to stay organized and it would be great if it would integrate with Outlook?
• Would you like to have more control over the company’s documents that are posted to a central location and something that has a content approval feature would be perfect?
• Would you like to have a secure place to share documents and other information with clients and/or partners, just as long as it's secure and private?
• Would you like to start offering training material to your teams, clients, and/or partners in a password-protected website that can be accessed anywhere in the world?
• Do you've seriously thought that your company could use some sort of document management system that uses a check-in / check-out feature?

OK, now if mostly your answers were “yes” then you surely need SharePoint Solutions.

Benefits:

SharePoint offers you “out of the box” features. Its main benefits are –
• A robust development platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs
• Organizational Efficiency
• Information Sharing Across Geographical Boundaries
• Comprehensive Content Management and Enterprise Search Features
• Enhancements to drive productivity, a salable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment etc.

It majorly enhances: 

 Here, I am sharing a video which explains about the SharePoint working in a very simple way.

Next time I will discuss upon the new release of SharePoint i.e. SharePoint 2013. Its features, benefits and how and where we can implement it to get more benefits in our organization.

Introduction to the SharePoint

Posted by Sophina Dillard No comments

Today with this increasing data-centric business climate, fear of data loss and data tampering, assigning the access to mission critical information to the specific users and with increasing complexities and data handling issues, etc. all we are looking for a robust, cost-effective, reliable and customized solution which can increase the productivity, enhance flexibility and improve control over the system and give us the desired results in the least possible time. All I can say answer to all these problems – Microsoft SharePoint. It integrates content management, social computing and search, enhances the user experience and easy adoption for them.

It is really important to have an effective custom application development for your organization. Microsoft SharePoint gives you a single, integrated location where your employees can easily find organizational resources, access corporate knowledge, and control the business insight so that they can take the better decisions. It offers an existing framework for publishing the content with an out-of-the-box administration. It also offers a complete search engine to search content and a portal for a user including single sign on. It has workflows to support business processes and a possibility to have insights into third application data.

SharePoint Pie: Let’s understand the pie chart of SharePoint which describes it services and features:

Why you need a SharePoint? 

If you want to find out whether you need a SharePoint service or not, just answer the following questions in yes or no –

• Having trouble managing projects and are considering buying an expensive project management solution?
• Do you keep all your emails in Outlook and wish you had a better place to store and archive them?
• Do you collaborate a lot on documents with others and find it difficult to know who has done what, and wish you could easily see earlier versions maybe even restore to earlier versions. Wouldn't it be great to tie documents to the projects they are associated with?
• Does your company deals with a lot of events, so you need a place to stay organized and it would be great if it would integrate with Outlook?
• Would you like to have more control over the company’s documents that are posted to a central location and something that has a content approval feature would be perfect?
• Would you like to have a secure place to share documents and other information with clients and/or partners, just as long as it's secure and private?
• Would you like to start offering training material to your teams, clients, and/or partners in a password-protected website that can be accessed anywhere in the world?
• Do you've seriously thought that your company could use some sort of document management system that uses a check-in / check-out feature?

OK, now if mostly your answers were “yes” then you surely need SharePoint Solutions.

Benefits:

SharePoint offers you “out of the box” features. Its main benefits are –
• A robust development platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs
• Organizational Efficiency
• Information Sharing Across Geographical Boundaries
• Comprehensive Content Management and Enterprise Search Features
• Enhancements to drive productivity, a salable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment etc.

It majorly enhances: 

 Here, I am sharing a video which explains about the SharePoint working in a very simple way.

Next time I will discuss upon the new release of SharePoint i.e. SharePoint 2013. Its features, benefits and how and where we can implement it to get more benefits in our organization.