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.