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.

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.

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. 

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.