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SharePoint Major Features
You can set up one SharePoint workspace for your company, or you can have many, depending on the size of your company. Microsoft has many, many workspaces that interconnect. Most companies started using SharePoint 2003 as a replacement for a standard intranet, because it's easy for anyone to add, edit, share or use content on SharePoint sites. Using SharePoint, they could cut out the middleman (a Web team) that traditionally controlled content management. Cost efficient.
SharePoint has grown vastly more sophisticated since its first incarnation, adding the ability to link with business data, create blogs and wikis, monitor projects and integrate workflow, use customized lists, manage content and so on. Because of this, companies are now starting to use SharePoint for their Internet sites as well.
While your IT manager or developer will be a big part of your success with SharePoint, you can do a lot of cool stuff on your own. It's like moving into an apartment that allows you to paint the walls and decorate the place to make it yours. You may need to ask your IT manager to enable some features or give you permissions to use others, but it takes only a little time, and depending on how your company sets policies, the feature you need may be enabled already.
Meeting Workspace - Send notices, invites, alerts, and set up a workspace to hold a meeting, attach documents, and list contacts. Bring your entire team together online, no matter where they are located.
Event Calendars - Keep track of all the dates and times of your events in one location. With the shared calendar everyone's availability is up to date. You can also assign permissions and share access to your personal calendar with colleagues. Whether oversees or over the cubicle, you know what's happening and when.
Surveys - Create and deliver an online survey from SharePoint. Take a poll on anything and everything from where to hold the company picnic to employee satisfaction and morale. Stay informed and connected.
Contact Lists - Store all of your team's information in the contact directories. Create directories for business partners, vendors, and other contacts outside the company as well. No more looking all over for a name and number. Manage all your contacts in one central location.
Task Managers - Create lists to assign tasks to team members. You can specify priority and due date, and indicate its status and progress. Users can view their individual tasks or view all team members.
Discussion Groups - Create your own forums and discussion groups to share and talk about current issues, ask and answer questions and archive them.
Announcements - Keep everyone up to date on the latest company news whether its an employee promotion or regarding the latest financial report. Keep everyone informed of the most critical information they need to get their job done.
You can set up one SharePoint workspace for your company, or you can have many, depending on the size of your company. Microsoft has many, many workspaces that interconnect. Most companies started using SharePoint 2003 as a replacement for a standard intranet, because it's easy for anyone to add, edit, share or use content on SharePoint sites. Using SharePoint, they could cut out the middleman (a Web team) that traditionally controlled content management. Cost efficient.
SharePoint has grown vastly more sophisticated since its first incarnation, adding the ability to link with business data, create blogs and wikis, monitor projects and integrate workflow, use customized lists, manage content and so on. Because of this, companies are now starting to use SharePoint for their Internet sites as well.
While your IT manager or developer will be a big part of your success with SharePoint, you can do a lot of cool stuff on your own. It's like moving into an apartment that allows you to paint the walls and decorate the place to make it yours. You may need to ask your IT manager to enable some features or give you permissions to use others, but it takes only a little time, and depending on how your company sets policies, the feature you need may be enabled already.
Meeting Workspace - Send notices, invites, alerts, and set up a workspace to hold a meeting, attach documents, and list contacts. Bring your entire team together online, no matter where they are located.Event Calendars - Keep track of all the dates and times of your events in one location. With the shared calendar everyone's availability is up to date. You can also assign permissions and share access to your personal calendar with colleagues. Whether oversees or over the cubicle, you know what's happening and when. Surveys - Create and deliver an online survey from SharePoint. Take a poll on anything and everything from where to hold the company picnic to employee satisfaction and morale. Stay informed and connected.Contact Lists - Store all of your team's information in the contact directories. Create directories for business partners, vendors, and other contacts outside the company as well. No more looking all over for a name and number. Manage all your contacts in one central location.Task Managers - Create lists to assign tasks to team members. You can specify priority and due date, and indicate its status and progress. Users can view their individual tasks or view all team members.Discussion Groups - Create your own forums and discussion groups to share and talk about current issues, ask and answer questions and archive them.Announcements - Keep everyone up to date on the latest company news whether its an employee promotion or regarding the latest financial report. Keep everyone informed of the most critical information they need to get their job done.
