How is SharePoint Useful for Collaboration?

Sharepoint can be used for collaboration at an enterprise level, as we all know collaboration is an important factor in the continuity of the business process and also for their effective implementation. it also improves employee engagement. and for these things to take place sharepoint can help us a  lot.

Microsoft SharePoint is a widely used enterprise-level and business-level platform that in addition to content management and project management, also offers rich collaboration capabilities. Holding a Microsoft Gold Competency in Collaboration and Content. In this article, we’d like to share with you our vision of the essence of enterprise collaboration and show how SharePoint fits into this concept.

In general, SharePoint is widely used in business. So, there’s no need to adopt any new software while establishing collaboration in a company, which is cheaper and adds to user adoption.

 But what does SharePoint have to offer as a collaboration platform?

It mainly offers two types of collaboration :

1. Team-based collaboration: For a team to work together on a project sharepoint can offer a large variety of features that may be very useful while doing a collaboration with other teammates. SharePoint enables any team member to create a project, and decide who can participate in it and what access each participant will have.
2. Company-wide collaboration: Microsoft SharePoint also offers company-wide collaboration. SharePoint can support cross-departmental collaboration through various tools like content management systems and storage of important documents. However, the core of company-wide collaboration is the intranet that connects all company units and stores all corporate documents, policies, news, etc. Employees from different departments can communicate through the intranet instantly with message tools, blogs, discussion boards, etc. And besides business communication, SharePoint intranets can support corporate life through communities, which creates weak ties that are valuable for boosting collaboration.

There is a number of reasons that make SharePoint good for employee collaboration:

1. Affordability of the cloud deployment –  Sharepoint is very affordable, it only costs $8.00/month. after buying a subscription you can begin using it
2. No requirement for coding –  users don’t need to have any coding knowledge, they must need to assemble things
3. Integrated environment – SharePoint is compatible with other Microsoft products, which is one of the main reasons for its popularity. it also integrates easily with third-party software such as CRM etc.
4. Adaptability – SharePoint allows a company to use only needed tools without overloading it with unnecessary software. Thus, SharePoint enables creating a solution that meets the collaboration needs of businesses of any size or domain.
5. Managing permissions–  it enables managing user permissions according to their roles. This makes collaboration well-organized as SharePoint regulates who is allowed to see, edit, delete, etc. documents and perform various actions like approvals.
6. Increased productivity –  it allows users to connect anywhere in the world for example a user can connect to it from home thus increasing productivity.
7. Enhanced project management–   SharePoint enables keeping version history for documents, as well as real-time collaboration and commenting. Thus, it creates full visibility into projects and ensures everything is on track due to such functions as monitoring tasks, deadlines, etc. it also ensures centralized project management throughout an organization.

Microsoft SharePoint is basically a Web-based collaborative platform, it comes under the umbrella of Tech giant Microsoft, it was launched in 2001. It is mainly used to handle web application development and content management by providing powerful tools such as organizing content, providing collaborating, and managing information in a very structured way. it is primarily sold as document storage and management system. Microsoft Sharepoint is highly configurable and has a vast application among organizations, It is accessible anywhere in the world via a browser and the internet.

Microsoft also states that Microsoft  SharePoint has Over 190 million active users across a massive  200,000 customer organization.

Microsoft Sharepoint has mainly 6  different areas which are stated below :

1. Sites: managing and building websites
2. Communities: Creating a social and collaborative environment
3. Content: Managing your data and records
4. Search: Search your info
5. Composites: Work Together
6. Insights:  Digging for Business intelligence