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

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.

SharePoint Solutions 2013

Since its launch, SharePoint 2013 has been touted as one of Microsoft’s biggest releases ever. That’s great for new users, but what about its cousin version – SharePoint 2010, which most people have embraced and appreciated? Is SharePoint 2013 better than SharePoint 2010? Is it time for an upgrade? Read on, you’ll find the answers.

Recently, we got a chance to review SharePoint 2013. After having reviewed it, we unearthed some really interesting points about SharePoint 2013. We’d like to discuss it in this post:

One great thing about SharePoint 2013 is, it brings to the table some wonderful features of SharePoint 2010, plus some exciting extras too. The following are the existing features that have been retained from SharePoint 2010: Access Services, Search Services, Excel Services, User Profile Service, Performance Point Services, InfoPath Forms Services, and Business Connectivity Services.

We are sure these are the features you’d have liked in SharePoint 2010, but just imagine – your most-liked features getting some bang-up upgrades in terms of functionality and usability. That is what SharePoint 2013 promises. For instance, there is an enhanced analytics service which lets users create and maintain custom reporting – imagine this feature spreading to the mobile and tablet devices. This is our speculation, by the way but is more likely to happen in the near term.

The expanded services are top class – there is a bunch of expansion, which includes Education Services, Translation Services, Work Management Service, Content Management Service, Workflow Services, and more.

Honestly, we felt a feature like SharePoint Education could be a pretty handy component for people in the education industry. And there are some great check-outs for people in the other sectors as well.

Our Verdict: If you are looking for the best of SharePoint solutions, you got to have SharePoint 2013!