SHAREPOINT Microsoft SharePoint is the web based platform with the integrated set of capabilities that can help

the enterprise to effectively improve the content management, streamline the workflow processes, knowledge & information sharing and document management. The various services offered by SharePoint are: Document Management Intranet Portals SharePoint search Business Intelligence Business Process & Forms

Document Management: Microsoft SharePoint provides a solution to an enterprise to satisfy the need of storing and managing the large number of documents in one common repository and hence eliminating the management of paper based documents. Capability of tracking various versions of the documents edited by the users can also be achieved. Multiple authors can author the same document using the versioning feature thus eliminating synchronization problems

The entitlements can be enforced on the document repository enabling the content to be viewed by the target set of audience hence maintaining the information security. Intranet portals/Collaborative Site: Intranet portal service enables the employees to create custom sites to share the information amongst other employees. The platform provides the enterprise effective, secure and cost effective way to communicate. Web parts within the site page allow the users to display information such as announcements/news, calendar, reports, Images, PowerPoint presentations, forms etc.

Sub-sites can be created within the parent site leveraging the entitlements to ensure that the entitled individuals can utilize, share and author the information. SharePoint Search: Searching information through large set of documents and files is an issue. Therefore SharePoint search feature provides an effective search capability which enables the users to browse through huge sets of documents, repositories, enterprise site pages, corporate information and fetches the information. Business Intelligence: Business Intelligence is very critical for any organization. To be able to effectively analyze, publish and view the data is extremely important. SharePoint can be used as a platform to display the dynamic reports, graphs, charts etc from multiple data sources. The various reports and documents can be stored in the document library and the connections can be provided to the external data sources. Therefore, whenever there is a slight modification in the source data, the dynamic reports display up to date information enabling the employees to access/analyze information and helps decision making. Additional Business Intelligence services provided by SharePoint are: Excel services Visio graphic services Reporting services Power Pivot

Business Process & Forms: The complex business processes within an organization can be simplified using Workflows. Workflow can be described as the automated flow of documents/forms etc through a series of tasks. Business logics are defined at each phase of the workflow that specifies the set of actions to be taken on the document. For Example: The workflow can be defined on a document library channels the document to the various users, assigning them the tasks and sending out automated email alerts for pending and completed tasks. SharePoint Workflows streamlines the various processes by reducing the takt times and by providing the cost efficient solutions.