Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Enhancing Enterprise Collaboration with SharePoint

Enterprise collaboration is very crucial for the organizations that are struggling to redress their workflows inefficiencies such as delays, misleading information, processing duplicity etc.

With SharePoint solutions, one can handle any amount of workload. In order to effectively deliver business value, SharePoint enterprise collaboration tools help organizations a lot. Content-centric business processes such as contract management cannot effectively use Web 2.0 collaboration tools without a comprehensive ECM system in place.

With advanced information sharing capabilities, SharePoint Enterprise Collaboration will help you achieve greater business process efficiency and improve your workforce productivity by:

  • Improving Business Insight - Better-informed decisions will result at all levels of the organization by efficiently finding, assembling and analyzing critical business information from different sources.
  • Eliminating Business Inefficiencies - Enterprise Collaboration helps your enterprise to achieve better results in less time, whilst keeping your IT infrastructure lean and easy to manage.
  • Increasing Market Responsiveness - Rich enterprise collaboration tools help increase overall production and receptiveness by rapidly connecting isolated people, processes and data that enrich your structured workflows and processes.
  • Enhancing Overall Business Processes - Through team collaborative workspaces, employees will be able to contain the time and effort required to access and act on data from different computing systems.

With Saviance SharePoint consulting in ECM, our clients get the roadmap for making sound ECM decisions and help them to formulate effective ECM strategy planning.

Our experienced consultants work with you to develop a clear understanding of your business strategies, performance challenges, improvement opportunities, business case requirements, timing and budgetary considerations.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SharePoint: A Versatile Development Platform

SharePoint is a robust platform which helps developers to develop various useful applications as per their business requirements. It is a known fact that SharePoint applications are highly scalable, collaborative and content driven.

SharePoint 2013 is a strong SharePoint application development platform for building solutions and apps addressing different requirements and needs. Microsoft has put all the information on MSDN and TechNet website to help build apps and understand how to consume the different capabilities of the platform.

SharePoint 2013 is used for developing apps for SharePoint and farm solutions. There are three types of SharePoint hosting:

  • SharePoint hosted
  • Auto hosted
  • Provider hosted

Windows SharePoint Service (WSS) is a free add-on to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008, realizing a full-featured Web-based platform supports the following features:

  • Content Management System
  • Tools for Collaboration
  • Shared calendars and contact lists
  • Notice (including e-mail notification)
  • Forums for discussion
  • Blogs and wikis -sections
  • Management of documents by creating a central repository for shared documents
  • Interaction-based Web technologies, collaborative editing shared documents, as well as working space for documents
  • Publishing content , including the publication of changes and workflow
  • Access control and version control for documents in the library
  • Browser-based management and administration.
  • technical support and bug tracking
  • Management of redundant facilities and equipment (Room and Equipment Reservations)
  • Management of material goods (Physical Asset Tracking)
  • Sales Management (Sales Pipeline)
  • Customizable Web page using special settings panel, web-based tools (web parts), as well as the mechanisms of navigation
  • Network load balancing and support of web space (web farms)
  • Support for firewalls and demilitarized zones (DMZ)


Monday, April 21, 2014

Save Time and Money Using SharePoint workflows

Do you want to save time for your business processes and increase productivity at the same time?  Well, SharePoint workflows can provide your organization better control, more efficiency, and increased accountability over your processes. They can be customized according to the business requirements. SharePoint workflows also help businesses to streamline business processes more efficiently.

SharePoint Workflow helps in automating processes that route documents for various types of review of file/files. When you save a file to a document library on a SharePoint Server site, you have three workflows available to you:
  • The Approval workflow- This workflow asks everyone to approve a file. For example, before giving a presentation, you might run this workflow so that influential people at your company can approve it.
  • The Collect Feedback workflow- This workflow collects feedback. For example, if you are writing a new company policy, you might want feedback from people in various departments. Then later, you can integrate everyone’s feedback into a final version before it becomes official.
  • The Collect Signatures workflow- This workflow collects digital signatures from people. You might use this if you want someone to sign an expense report, or a performance review.
Microsoft also developed SharePoint applications to continue with the best practices at workplaces and with the goal of empowering customers and other stakeholders to create their own applications. A number of features and capabilities are introduced in SharePoint 2013 which provides tools that IT professionals and solution creators need to develop SharePoint-based applications and workflow solutions that enhance organizational agility and business process automation.

Friday, April 11, 2014

SharePoint: Enabling Collaboration across the Enterprise

Enterprises today are seeking ‘collaboration’ among their workforce to tap the knowledge, expertise, experiences and skills to stay competitive and achieve desirable business results. To get that, organizations are using the power of social media technologies for their operations. SharePoint 2013 provides a robust enterprise collaboration platform that enables organizations to use social collaboration tools to channelize their business operations for desirable outcomes.

The enterprises consider SharePoint 2013 as a strategic platform for content management, record management, and business process management which fulfills their portal, content and collaboration need. Organizations are using SharePoint for five major purposes:
  • Intranet
  • Team collaboration
  • Portal development
  • Document management
  • Public internet

Other popular uses of SharePoint involve process management, knowledge management, business intelligence, project management, and case management.

Organizations are adopting SharePoint 2013 platform especially because of SharePoint enterprise collaboration feature which benefits them with a reduced TCO (total cost of ownership) and increased ROI(return on investment).  In spite of its rich features and capabilities, organizations face 3 major challenges, outlined below:

  • Need of experts in consulting and implementation- SharePoint consulting becomes indispensable when implementing SharePoint version for strategic planning, aligning with business goals, and a detailed implementation roadmap with budgets and schedules.
  • Tools and processes for quicker roll out- despite the fact that SharePoint has undergone significant improvement, there still remains a need for customization to meet specific business requirements. Using out-of-the-box features or using third party tools and processes are the most recommended approaches according to the business requirement. 
  • Ongoing support and maintenance cost- With the implementation of SharePoint, it is seen that the end-user adoption and usage grows phenomenally, and because of this the support and maintenance of SharePoint environment becomes the major key challenge for IT department of the organization.


Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Why Public Sector need SharePoint consulting

Public sector, as we all know is always under tremendous pressure, with acute requirement of delivering best services, productivity using minimal resources, and budget constraints at the same time. This sector is also accountable to other important organizations and agencies, and moreover, they constantly face the pressures of cost reduction and revenue generation.

Considering these challenges, Microsoft has made lot of changes in SharePoint and enhanced its capabilities to meet the needs of public sector organizations.  The new advanced features and solutions give SharePoint Public Sector organizations the ability to meet their requirements and create highly scalable SharePoint environments.

But one cannot ignore the fact that SharePoint has a vast and complex structure, and to make the most of its capabilities, public sector needs a proper SharePoint consulting. SharePoint proves to be helpful for Public Sector organizations in following ways:


  • Cyber Security-  provides and maintains security for sensitive information these Public sector organizations deal with. With SharePoint, the enterprise has the ability to collaborate and share information in a real-time and secured manner.
  • SharePoint High Availability- ensures that SharePoint content is always available for all users around the world collaborating on the same documents.
  • Cloud Computing- Considering the sensitivity of Public Sector data and records, these organizations are taking full advantage of securing and storing data through Cloud storage.
  • Data Center Consolidation-Public Sector organizations have been mandated to consolidate data centers to reduce costs and increase its infrastructure ROI. With the help of SharePoint, these organizations are consolidating and centralizing their data into an enterprise SharePoint environment while ensuring performance and scalability. 
  • Optimize SharePoint Storage- Now the Public sectors organizations can expand SharePoint storage by shrinking databases/ SQL Server by 95%, thus increasing SharePoint performance and reducing costs. It helps to take back-up of your SharePoint content in no time, and recover documents and site collections with ease. 


Friday, February 21, 2014

Thinking of migrating to SharePoint?

If you are thinking of migrating to SharePoint environment, it is time to ponder over its features and the new advanced capabilities it offers. If you are using some other platform and want to migrate to SharePoint platform, what new features and services you will get? Or are you already using a SharePoint version and want to upgrade to the next version? There are lot of points which should be considered while taking the plunge: such as “Would it be helpful our business or is it just cool to migrate”?  Here we will discuss the new capabilities of SharePoint 2013 and how it becomes the right pick and the favourite platform for users.

As a matter of fact, SharePoint has seen a widespread adoption. Around 78% of Fortune 500 companies are using SharePoint 2013 across the globe. Microsoft has made lot of changes in its SharePoint versions in order to make its complex structure easier and user friendly, like by introducing some new cutting edge features for web content management, workflow, search, and big data, it has won the confidence of the users and they simply love it!

The SharePoint migration has been of two kinds, firstly, the companies which were using other platforms like Lotus, Oracle. etc. are now migrating to SharePoint platform. Secondly, the companies which were using older versions of SharePoint are now upgrading to SharePoint 2013. The reason being it’s new and advanced features some of which are listed below:


  • Advanced Apps 
  • New improved workflows with an add-on feature called as ‘Workflow Manager’.
  • Yammer Integration
  • Big Data support
  • Web Content Management
  • Improved Design Capabilities
  • Improved Publishing Capabilities via Cross-Site Publishing


Thursday, February 20, 2014

SharePoint : The Multipurpose Tool

SharePoint provides a multitude of features which are helpful for developers as well as for users. SharePoint provides a set of services for collaboration and foundation for building Web-based applications.

Creating an app for SharePoint is now easier with SharePoint 2013 as it is a strong development platform for building solutions and apps to address different requirements and needs. Using the tools which SharePoint provides, one can instantly create apps and publish them in a corporate catalog or in the Office Store.

Apps for SharePoint enable users to get new capabilities. They are versatile, reusable, and scalable. Developers can design their apps as widgets, extend the SharePoint interface, and provide a great experience to users.

MSDN provides plenty of information on SharePoint application development as how to start building your first application and how to consume the different capabilities of the platform.

SharePoint is composed of multi-purpose set of web technologies that are useful for many organizations. Microsoft recently released Windows SharePoint Services which is a free add-on for Windows Server 2003. Organizations and business units of any size and structure can use SharePoint services to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services give people access to information they need.

Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also provide a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that are flexible and can be customized to meet the changing and growing needs of your business.

Monday, February 3, 2014

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces some useful new capabilities and features. The following new capabilities and features are particularly relevant to building custom applications.
  • Libraries and Lists- SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a number of new library and list types, which can be used as the basis for SharePoint applications and you can store a lot of data and files in these lists and libraries.
  • Content Types- A content type is a reusable collection of settings that is used for content management. It enables to reuse the metadata and behaviours of a document or item type.
  • Site Columns- Site columns provide a central, reusable model for column definition or template which are helpful for users to pick for multiple lists across multiple SharePoint sites.
  • Workflow- SharePoint workflow is defined as the automated movement of documents or items through a series of actions or tasks for a successful completion of a business processes within an organization.
  • Feature Framework- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contains a new structure called a “feature” which reduces the complexity involved in making site customizations, leaving out the requirement to copy large chunks of code to make simple changes in the site.
  • Event Enhancement- This is used for core events like changes, additions and removal of lists items or list columns. It is also used for deletion of sites and site collections.
  • Mobile Device Access - SharePoint Services 3.0 provides new capabilities to the users to browse SharePoint site on their mobile devices easily.
The new features and enhancements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide an array of opportunities for the developers. It provides enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business requirements such as content management, site plan or site collections and streamlining business processes. Using Windows SharePoint Services organizations can enable their users to create, manage, and easily build their own SharePoint sites.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Why Public Sector Organization need SharePoint Consulting

Today public sector organizations are focusing on how to reduce operational costs and streamline their workflows to achieve optimum productivity. Public sector organizations and agencies in critical sectors such as law services, taxes and finance etc. have to deal with massive amount of paperwork and paper records every day.  To secure the important data contained in these paper records is capital intensive and requires efforts like managing, tracking and disseminating. These organizations in public sector face numerous constraints to meet their requirements effectively.

SharePoint public sector solutions have given the users to organize important information, an easy access to that information, manage documents, and enable efficient collaboration, all in a familiar and Microsoft Office-integrated environment. With the digitizing of the paper records, public sector organizations and agencies can now meet the challenges and requirements they have been facing, reduce the costs and improve their productivity significantly.  

SharePoint offers ample solutions and applications but organizations sometimes are unable to make the most of its features and capabilities. For that purpose SharePoint consulting becomes indispensable. The SharePoint consultants assist their clients in leveraging their SharePoint investments and enable them to use SharePoint effectively as a tool. 

SharePoint helps Public sector organizations to save money in following ways:
  • Reduces support and IT costs by getting all your enterprise solutions under a single product license.
  • Reduce development costs, by using comprehensive out-of-the-box components.
  • Provides a single, easy-to-use interface for end users and for IT administration and governance.
  • Improves employee productivity, by implementing collaboration tools.
  • Enhances the effectiveness of customer service and sales teams by providing a quick access to information.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Why do businesses require SharePoint consulting?

As we know SharePoint comes with a broad platform including a slew of features and sometimes it becomes difficult for the organization to fully optimize its vast capabilities. There is no doubt in the fact that SharePoint has a complex structure and users sometimes find it difficult to leverage it for their business processes.

Every organization has unique business requirements at different stages of SharePoint applications. There are various SharePoint service offerings like Consulting, Implementation, Applications and Solutions set which provide organizations opportunities to leverage management strategies and cost effective business tools. And for a smooth running of business, it is important that users should have a better understanding of all the various functions of SharePoint.

This is where SharePoint consulting becomes necessary. It is always recommended to hire SharePoint consulting services so that SharePoint consultants can study and understand your business requirements and find out what actually is needed for your organization and provide a best solution. The most important reason to hire SharePoint consulting firms is mainly because of their cost effectiveness. Hence with the help of SharePoint consulting services, your requirements are met and your business value and profit gets increased at very low cost.

SharePoint consulting services also provide high security for your business information. It is very difficult to protect the information from online hackers but a consultant can secure your data with various security options available. They also explain you how to secure the data and actions to be performed to protect the data and help you in choosing a safe external hosting service. Thus consultants make the work easier and reduce the unwanted expenditure of an organization.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Managing Public Sector Records with SharePoint

Public sector organizations and departments have to deal with massive paper work and records every day which contain important and crucial information. Handling and keeping the confidential information stored in these records intact and secure is the main priority and a major concern for these departments. Sometimes it is difficult to deal with enormous paper records at one time- managing, tracking, storing and disseminating them on urgent basis.

Earlier Public Sector organizations and agencies used to face many challenges like losing or misplacing of the important data in paper records, which used to hamper the productivity and faster delivery of services. But the deployment of SharePoint has made the life of Public Sector employees easier especially in the departments like justice, human services, tax and revenue where there is the maximum demand of effective records capture and management solutions.

SharePoint Public Sector solutions enable organizations in the public sector to make content management easy for all employees and compliance across all documents. This leads to better, faster, and more secure processes that can be managed through a familiar environment, integrated into business collaboration infrastructure, and improve services more effectively. Also, it reduces the cost of storing the valuable paper records and improves the productivity of the departments by giving them effective content and records management capabilities.

By leveraging SharePoint 2010 solutions, these departments can now scan, capture and index information directly to a SharePoint library, where it can be securely managed, searched and retrieved. Thousands of organizations in Public Sector are turning to SharePoint to manage paper work more effectively, lowering costs, streamlining business processes, improving customer services and reducing compliance risks.

Friday, January 3, 2014

SharePoint: An Effective Project Management Tool

If you are a software development project manager, it is important for you to address the technical aspects of managing projects. SharePoint project management gives you an ease to manage large multi team or complex projects effectively. Using SharePoint for Project Management, you'll not only understand how to apply common and practical project management concepts in SharePoint, but also learn how to build a Project Management Information System (PMIS), which can be customized to the requirements of your project. This enhances an effective communication and collaboration among team members.

The key objectives that SharePoint meets are:

  • Centralize Project Information – project contacts, calendars, task lists, resource lists, documents, templates, forms and checklists.
  • Facilitate Team Communication and Collaboration – including scheduling meetings, project announcements, jointly developing proposals and requirements. 
  • Streamline Project Reporting – by simplifying project tracking and status reporting.

Professional SharePoint consulting and training become vital when organizations deal with complex SharePoint projects consisting of large teams in order to ensure that  the participants understand the concepts and best practices of project management methodology, and learn how to put them into practice. The SharePoint consultants and trainers have a better understanding of risks and challenges involved with your projects and provide professional project management solutions and practices for the development and optimization of business processes.

SharePoint is a great platform on which project management infrastructure can be built successfully. It provides a wide range of tools for the optimization of internal and external cooperation. These properties make SharePoint an optimal solution for the improvement of project management and make business processes simple and transparent.

Monday, December 30, 2013

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.

Saviance provides SharePoint Consulting : -
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.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

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


Friday, December 20, 2013

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.

Friday, November 29, 2013

SharePoint 2013 – A Comprehensive Solution to the Healthcare Industry Users

Upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 can do a world of good for people in all sectors, whilst it can be more so beneficial for those in the healthcare industry. Document collaboration, one of the core tasks of an organization, is made easy as the base structure is the same for both the versions – SP 2010 and SP 2013. However, SharePoint 2013 brings to the table some significant changes, which offers a better experience to users. The drag-and-drop option and the option to edit metadata in the datasheet are a couple of notable changes you will find in SharePoint 2013.

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 can benefit the healthcare industry users in a lot of ways. The newly enhanced search option displays a list of related search terms when you type in your search query, which is really appreciable. Moreover, it displays how many times a particular item or search query has been viewed by the other users.

All in all, SharePoint 2013 helps the healthcare industry users in two main ways: one is that, it lets you streamline your content and manage it effectively. And, it lets you connect with people in different industries and share invaluable knowledge.

Simply put, with their latest version, SharePoint developers have ensured that any user can turn convert raw data into productive data and manage it effectively without any assistance from the IT team. Best of all, it also makes it possible to respond to business queries instantly, which is one of the key responsibilities of an organization.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

How to secure SharePoint environment

Generally, organizations find it difficult to control the SharePoint management system which is required to meet the critical management challenges like- control site sprawl, and view and edit permissions easily across entire SharePoint environments. It equips organizations with the deftness and control required to easily meet these critical management challenges in SharePoint Application Development.

SharePoint management is needed

  1. To manage information governance and security policies on risk-defined content.
  2. To provide an easy control on settings, configurations, and security policies at any SharePoint object level.
  3. To move, copy, and restructure SharePoint apps, content, sites, and topology within or across environments 
  4. To automate the deployment of customizations and configurations within or across SharePoint farms.
  5. To replicate content, configurations or security settings across SharePoint environments.


Developing SharePoint apps

SharePoint application development is easier with SharePoint 2013 which gives a strong development platform for building solutions and apps addressing different requirements and fulfills the needs of businesses. The SharePoint platform enables you to develop applications that have the following features:

  • Scalable- SharePoint allows you to add applications and features as needed to meet growing demands. 
  • Collaborative- this feature of SharePoint allows you to create workspaces where people share ideas, documents, and other important documents.
  • Content-driven- SharePoint allows you to create and publish content that is customized according to the needs of the users.


Monday, November 25, 2013

Empower your enterprise with SharePoint Solutions from Saviance

SharePoint is a customizable, collaborative web application. Organizations use SharePoint to create websites, corporate intranets, and as an effective tool for custom database storage, ticketing systems, document management and much more. Microsoft SharePoint is not only a development platform, but also a fully featured website application. You can easily install SharePoint application on the server, and have the site running in no time.

Saviance provides SharePoint solutions which are built to

  • Lower IT cost
  • Enable advanced collaboration
  • Deliver higher-quality services for SharePoint users

Our team of experts works on development of SharePoint applications in order to enable our clients to acquire maximum advantage upon minimum investment. Saviance has a pool of experienced SharePoint professionals who undertake extensive SharePoint Application Development for our clients to provide them with easy solutions customized to their needs.

SharePoint provides solutions which help organizations to work efficiently on Microsoft Windows network. It has the ability to integrate directly with Active Directory and can be easily customized on the web applications. It is a powerful platform that helps in the functioning of the corporate intranets more effectively.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Use SharePoint for Content Management

There are various SharePoint service offerings like Consulting, Implementation, Applications and Solutions set which provide organizations opportunities to leverage management strategies and cost effective business tools.

The SharePoint management system provides various tools to help organizations to organize, discover, build and manage business processes more smoothly and efficiently and to manage various other important tasks like data backup, security, facilitate knowledge sharing and managing of digital assets.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is one such offering in SharePoint which relates to Document Management, Records Management and Compliance and Rich Media Management.
Companies find it difficult to deal with and mange lots of data. They spend an inordinate amount of time searching for required data and putting it to good use. ECM in SharePoint helps the organizations with their document management needs and saves their valuable time.

Advantages of Using SharePoint to Manage Content
  • Content is placed in a central repository. Authors are encouraged to store all content in the repository
  • Authors can search, sort, and filter existing content
  • Content is locked while being edited
  • Metadata can be leveraged at a document level
  • Metadata for graphics/media is available
  • Version history is maintained (major and minor plus comments)
  • Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content
  • Take file sharing to a new level with robust storage capabilities
  • Reduce the complexity of securing business information

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Implementation of SharePoint integration in industries

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is set to create a revolution in creation, management and organization of data in all exponentially growing industries. Since most industries have tie ups with one other such as production companies with distributors, healthcare industry with insurance companies etc. and most importantly all industries have a connection with the users, it’s become essential for real time updating of data, digitalization of documents for easy access by all departments within the organization, outside associates and users and also for easy indexed searching of the vast database which is exactly what Microsoft SharePoint 2013 can provide.

In case of health industry SharePoint integration can provide a framework to create cost effective, secure and organized database solution. An intuitive user experience increases productivity and ease of use of the platform. The most challenging task of healthcare which is maintenance of a coherent record of patient history starting from the time of the first checkup of a patient can be achieved by SharePoint’s compliant records management feature. The secure nature of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 allows easy maintenance of patient confidentiality which is a very big aspect of healthcare in US.

Maintenance of electronic medical records allows easy access to lab reports by doctors as well as patients minimizing treatment delays. All kinds of clinical content such as medical images, document images, forms, text documents, voice session recording, and emails can be effectively handled using SharePoint integration  Implementation of SharePoint integration in healthcare or any other industry enhances productivity of every department within the organization, makes it easy for management of the vast data, and trouble shooting of any problem within the organization as SharePoint maintains logs of all data input and accessed.