Leveraging SharePoint technology through SharePoint Consulting

SharePoint services comprise of a multipurpose set of web applications which is supported by a common technical platform. These services provide many features related to an intranet such as content management, tools for collaboration, browser-based management & administration, document management to name a few. Many organizations today are now using SharePoint service to be more effective in connecting people and information through collaborating with workspaces, team, or projects sites.

SharePoint provides various management tools to help organizations manage various important tasks like data backup, security and more, but sometimes organizations experience some problems in implementing these tools and applications. The employees sometimes require more understanding and knowledge on SharePoint to use it to the maximum. This is where, SharePoint consulting becomes an absolute for a smooth running of the processes.

Every organization or business has its own unique requirement at different stages of SharePoint applications and tools. SharePoint consulting experts understand the specific situations and nature of your business domain and offer training and consulting to the users.

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It is believed that SharePoint is very complex to understand. Unless you have a deep understanding and training on working with SharePoint environment, it will become difficult to perform and yield better results. For that purpose SharePoint consulting becomes indispensable. To use SharePoint effectively as a tool SharePoint Consulting and Training is always required because that is never included in the SharePoint license fee. Saviance expert consultants give you hands-on training and SharePoint consulting on various features like SharePoint 2010 to 2013 migration, Business Intelligence solutions and Social sites & My sites.

How SharePoint Workflow helps in document management

Workflow is the automated process of the documents through a sequence of actions or tasks that are related to a business process. Workflows can be used to consistently manage common business processes within an organization by attaching business logic to documents or items in a SharePoint list or library.

If you are using SharePoint for document management you need to have workflow. The SharePoint management feature helps you to manage your documents efficiently and to achieve that purpose you need to use SharePoint workflow because it helps in streamlining the cost and time required to coordinate common business processes, such as project approval or document review and managing and tracking the human tasks involved with these processes.

The most important solution for document management that SharePoint has ever built is Document Management Workflows. SharePoint Workflow are added to a document library to manage a group of people working together within a company. This tool allows members of the group to complete various tasks that need to be done by different individuals on the same document like approval tasks, send email alerts to the participants with task instructions and a link to the document to be approved and so on. While the workflow is in progress, the workflow owner and the workflow participants can check the Workflow Status page. When the tasks are completed by the participants, the workflow ends, and the owner is automatically notified about it.

Types of documents that are usually processed in a SharePoint Document Management Workflow are:

• Accounts Payable Documents: Invoices, Bills
• Accounts Receivable Documents: Terms of Sale, Credit Card Authorization Form
• Legal Documents: Contracts, Personal Documents

SharePoint 2013 for Project Management

SharePoint 2013 has many updated and important features among which project Management is a key feature. Project 2013 and SharePoint 2013 together make managing projects easier and more collaborative.

The new capabilities in SharePoint 2013 make it an awesome platform for project collaboration and Project 2013 feature provides improved 2-way sync with SharePoint 2013.  

SharePoint 2013 has made project management easier for any user who needs to collaboratively manage a project or participate in a project team. The SharePoint Project Management feature empowers both the new and the experienced user to handle both, the light projects using the new project site template and features, and more sophisticated management projects, integrating SharePoint 2013 with Project Server 2013. It can provide any project manager with an easy, efficient way to coordinate resources, track tasks, manage team members and communicate with stakeholders about projects in real time across their organization. 

It gives you a great approach to managing projects and project information efficiently. Users can use SharePoint as a project management information system (PMIS) including developing SharePoint project sites and team sites, working with out-of-the-box SharePoint functionality for managing project-related information, building document libraries, integrating Microsoft Office and Project Server software, building workflows and much more.

The SharePoint project management in SharePoint 2013 is an indispensable tool for every project manager and helps to make better decisions, makes communication more effective, and increases project success by lowering costs and improving operational efficiency.