Share Point 2013 Workflows

Are you looking to set up a SharePoint-friendly website? Well, we would say building a SharePoint website can help in a number of ways:

• The structure and site navigation can be easily altered by the admin. This comes in handy when a user wants to add a new course or an event to his/her website
• Helps save money on website hosting
• Even a newbie, with no technical knowledge, can easily make changes in his/her SharePoint website

SharePoint workflow makes your tasks much simpler by allowing you to design workflows without writing custom codes for your applications. Examples of creating workflows can range from creating tasks such as sending notifications to reviewing a document, reviewing and approving it, and more.

The latest version, SharePoint 2013 workflows brings in newly improved features, which are much more beneficial and advanced than its sister versions. The workflow engine is one of the most notable changes. SharePoint 2010 was using Windows Workflow Foundation 3.5 whereas SharePoint 2013 uses an improved Windows Azure Workflow. The other added enhancements include:

• Easy tracing and monitoring
• Instance management
• Organized service reliability
• Completely Declarative Authoring
• Elastic Scale
• Service Bus Messaging and REST
• Multi-Tenancy and High density

The other major improvements in SharePoint Designer 2013 include some amazing features that can help you build your workflows much easier. They are:

• Newly added visual development tools
• The ability to create/add applications without writing custom codes
• Additional building blocks such as App Step, Stage, and Loop

SharePoint by Saviance Meeting Enterprise Demands

In the last few years Microsoft’s SharePoint has evolved to meet wider range of enterprise demands like collaborations, business process management, intranets, portals, business intelligence and content management. SharePoint promises to store all of a company’s information centrally in an organized manner.

The question is why to use or even consider the use of SharePoint for Electronic Document Management when there are hundreds of content management solutions in the market. There are many homegrown content management solutions that one can opt for. The one thing common in all of them is they create another island of data and they require another system to log into to gain access. SharePoint is different in that way; it provides the ability to bring all of the information an employee needs into one focus. The foremost reason to choose SharePoint would be its versatility of storing different types of data. SharePoint developers would agree that SharePoint is pretty much about lists since it is where the data is stored

SharePoint’s vast set of features includes enterprise content management, search, blogs, wikis, social networking and collaboration and business process management.

Benefits of the SharePoint content management system to publish content on the website are:

• Content owners can update their own content without depending on the webmaster.
• Provides consistent navigation, resulting in better experience for the visitors
• Allows for quality control. Through workflow, different users are assigned different roles to deal with ensuring accurate and up-to-date data.
• Branding is assured through consistent use of logo and brand related elements

 

Storing data in SharePoint is only half challenge; securing it such that it is not accessible without user permissions is the other half. Employees can be allowed to freely contribute content, but need to made aware of the sensitivity of the documents. Ground rules can be set involving them in the responsible task of securing the data.