subject: Sharepoint Link Genealogy [print this page] Many wonder at the raison dtre of creating a new software program centered around two quite effective software programs already in place, and used extensively throughout the world - Microsofts Outlook and SharePoint. While Microsoft Outlook was created to ensure easy accessibility and management of email and data (from emails), Microsoft SharePoint was created to create and manage a document / information database in a web-based manner. Each one of these programs has already become essential to businesses around the world. SharePoint Link was created to address the gap that exists between the two platforms, allowing users to integrate Outlook and SharePoint, ultimately making businesses more efficient.
Who Created SharePoint Link?
The creators of SharePoint Link are graduates of Computer Science, with a specialization in Information Assurance. Information Assurance focuses on security in computer science. Keen in running their own Information Technology organization, these two classmates, after 10 years each of successful industry experience, started their own company called ITOPIA.
How was SharePoint Link created?
While running their company, the founders of ITOPIA have successfully completed many IT projects. Both being avid IT professionals, they found their clients had an enormous amount of important data stored haphazardly in their emails.
While Microsoft Outlook does organize and manage personal emails and documents, it does not allow others to share data, or leverage workflow on their emails to get work done quicker. At the same time, Microsoft SharePoint was designed as a content management system aimed to address collaboration and workflow needs, but Microsoft left a disconnect between Outlook and SharePoint, forcing users to learn to manage and juggle awkwardly between the two programs.
One needed to be an expert at using and managing both the software programs to get things done, and even so, you ended up asking for the IT administrator to bail out from jams, or asking for help with various functions in either or both programs.
At ITOPIA the idea came to mind, Why not have something that up these two vital software programs without so much hassle? And this is how SharePoint Link came into existence.
What is SharePoint Link?
SharePoint Link is a program that seamlessly integrates Microsoft Outlook & SharePoint and does away with all the complexities of users having to manage two separate software platforms.
Businesses can now target new boundaries in performance and operating efficiency, focusing on strategy and market capture, with SharePoint Link 2010 streamlining data intensive internal processes including Expense Tracking, Financial Records and Auditing and Project Management; extracting and integrating business critical data; and custom modules allowing for collaboration, search, archive and metric generation features atop SharePoint and Outlook.
SharePoint Link helps your employees save time. Relocating documents and emails is easier, allowing for faster revisions and quicker time to market for projects. Managers and C-level executives can see Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other Business Intelligence (BI) reporting pages in one location, through one unified Outlook & SharePoint integrated inbox.
