SharePoint Benefits
SharePoint lets team members share knowledge and maximize productivity and takes team collaboration to a higher level. It offers the following advantages:
Increase Team Productivity
SharePoint sites eliminate time, place, and technological restrictions and give team members a flexible, reliable, cost-effective way to increase productivity. Built-in templates and flexible user management make Workspace Site creation simple and effective. Site authors can determine how to distribute Workspace information and documents, and users have 24x7 Web access to team information through a single password-protected site.
Build an Organizational Community
SharePoint sites capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents and facilitate team participation in surveys, discussions, and shared document collaboration. Site content is accessible from both a Web browser and through client-supported Web services. The document collaboration features allow easy check in, check out, and document version control.
Empower Individuals
SharePoint site users can quickly locate documents and communicate with key contacts and project leaders. Using Microsoft Office applications, users can read and edit site lists, events, documents, and task assignments. They can also receive alerts concerning document editing and publishing. Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, users can view SharePoint site event calendars simultaneously with personal calendars and create meeting-specific workspaces to augment group appointments. You can personalize site content and layout on a per-user basis and use Web Parts to present targeted information to specific users.
Enable Site Managers
SharePoint site managers can customize site content and layout to ensure that members can access and work with important and relevant information. Teams, individuals, or business units can save well-designed templates, and you can monitor and moderate user participation.