SharePoint for Managing Business Operations

SharePoint is a Microsoft product which is a rich server based application used to manage and operate different requirements and tools used for an organization. SharePoint can be integrated with other tools used in an organization, so even a person with no technical background/understanding can operate it. It can be easily incorporated with various sophisticated enterprise applications like CRM, ERP, CMS etc.

SharePoint is also used to plan, deploy and manage intranet, extranet, internet applications, enterprise applications, files and document management tools etc. to smoothen different organizational operations. Different domains of a business can be operated from a centrally managed tool, SharePoint. This tool facilitates with the following features:

• Information Sharing: SharePoint can be used in document storage and retrieval, for providing customized view and other functionalities. It can route the data and documents from different centers inside an organization either to a central point or can share it with other nodes. A data representation is made easy with SharePoint and so is its sharing, editing, retrieval etc.
• Offer Email exchange server functionality: Email exchange servers are deployed to manage all the email traffic on the network of an organization. SharePoint helps a business to easily manage this traffic by collecting all the emails at a central point and then re-routing those emails to intended group or individuals with a single trigger.
• Website Management: Tools to manage website can be integrated in SharePoint thus, facilitating the user to modify the pages in a website. Different operations to be made on website like changing the theme of the page, adding or deleting pages are supported in SharePoint with customizable user interface and tagging tools.
• Business Intelligence/Decision Making: Since SharePoint is capable of multiple format data representation and data retrieval from multiple resources, it allows the data analysis for decision makers. More efficient decisions can be drawn for business development as SharePoint provides the most abstract view of the data. This allows the analysis of business operations and strategies by covering most of the area of operation from a single tool.
• Build Libraries: SharePoint is also used to form a collaborative system using documents by allocating the documents in a library, by a pane. Access to these documents can be defined and monitored in order to check who and when accesses the document inside a network of a software development company. Tasks can be monitored and their status can be tracked for calculating the productivity of workforce.

Along with these functionalities, various other functionalities are also imparted in SharePoint like data export to Excel file for making it easy to manage, print and making it convenient for graphical representations. Data transport mechanisms are well defined for scenarios such as site moving from one server to another.