subject: Benefits To Sharepoint Technology [print this page] The beauty of the sharepoint system is that works well for any business you throw it at. The reason for this is that sharepoint includes tons of benefits. So let's look at some of these benefits, shall we?
Maintenance Is Now Centralized
If you know anything about sharepoint, then you know its server based. What this means is you don't need to actually maintain and have a separate app on each end-user machine. Its accessible from any machine, since its based in one, central, server-based location.
Files are not restricted to the physical location of the business
Because sharepoint is effectivelly web-based, you can add guest users with just the right permissions for any one given need. This way, you can share documents with clients or other firms you're collaborating with. You yourself can go ahead and access the info from a hotel if you wanted to.
It grows as you grow
The thing I like when it comes to small businesses and sharepoint is how scalable it is. You can set just the right amount of users and the right license for your business. As your business grows, your sharepoint can grow too. Its perfectly scalable and customizable.
An intuitive and easy interface and work environment
What a lot of people love about sharepoint is that its meant to work smoothly with other microsoft products. It integrates seamlessly with the full ofice suite and all default windows applications. It basically makes the implementation of sharepoint super-smooth. It feels like its just part of your regular work environment.
You turbo-charge efficiency in your business
The reason its so great at increasing productivity is its centralizing nature. I mean, just imagine .Before you would have had people having to access tons of different apps, and then manually share and converts documents between users and apps. Managers had to manually give out and track tasks. Now, with sharepoint, your entire business is in one central place. All the tasks, documents, content, resources and users are in just one easily accessible location.
The sharing and collaboration features are awesome
A lot of time is wasted in businesses by people doing different version of the same document, or two people doing the same task. An even worse situation is where the data about something (your clients or revenue for example) changes. In that case, the old-fashioned way, a person putting together a document had to manually ask if something has changed. If however, you have all this data in sharepoint, it dynamically updates inside the documents. Whenever the manager updates some critical list, all the people to whom it applies get notified by sharepoint.
