Microsoft SharePoint

Improve Efficiency and Collaboration across your Organisation with Microsoft SharePoint

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft SharePoint provides a shared workspace to meet a great variety of needs within your business. It is an extremely versatile technology that can be used easily with familiar Microsoft Office software tools. SharePoint facilitates collaboration which crosses organisational boundaries and from any geographical location.

Benefits of Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint offers many benefits to an organisation, including the ability to:

Collaborate Efficiently

SharePoint sites allow a variety of methods to facilitate collaboration and improve efficiency within an organisation, including:

• Self-Service Workspaces - allow you to share documents and collaborate easily
• Blogs - let you share news and updates with your team
• Wikis - provide a place to gather information
• Familiar Tools - fully integrated with familiar Microsoft Office applications
• Content Management - makes it easy to write, edit, organise and share information in your SharePoint site

Enhance Productivity

• RSS and Alerts - inform you of the latest updates to your SharePoint site
• Calendars and Tasks - may be shared easily through SharePoint
• Identity and Presence - learn more about your colleagues, see who is online, and communicate using instant messaging software

Improve Access

• Site Search - Search all documents across your SharePoint site
• Microsoft Office Integration - Access information easily using familiar Microsoft Office tools
• Mobile Access - Access information from anywhere using mobile devices such as Windows Mobile smart phones, netbooks and laptops, connected via mobile internet or Wi-Fi
• Extranet Support - make your SharePoint documents available to clients, customers and others outside the organisation

Manage Information

• People and Groups - Control access to documents based on security permissions and group membership
• Item Level Permissions - set access permissions for individual documents
• Document Lifecycle Management - A two-level recycle bin allows document recovery by yourself or the system administrator
• Security-Trimmed User Interface - Only options available to a user are visible to a user viewing a document

Integrate Processes

• Application Templates - provide ready-made solutions for collaborating within your team
• Workflows - allow you to organise and improve work processes, responding to the changing status and location of documents within your shared work space
• Additional Data Sources - Easily edit data from Microsoft Access databases and other sources within your SharePoint site
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 - ActiveBrand offer SharePoint hosting which adds the SharePoint Services of SharePoint Server 2007 to the SharePoint platform
• Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - provides special tools for designing SharePoint sites

Solution Development

ActiveBrand can deliver solutions for you using ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 which integrate SharePoint sites with your other business software.