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)

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.

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.

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