Microsoft SharePoint

With IT facing exponential growth in service requests, users need to be able to do more with less dependency on their IT departments.

Quickly build Engaging Public Facing & Departmental Intranet Sites. Use Product Catalogues, to easily manage complex product listings.

Engage with mobile - render a website in multiple ways.

Share Key information centrally and keep staff updated.

Find key information quickly across sites with SharePoint Search.

Aggregate Content over a number of sites and sources.

Exercise fine control (security) over who has access to information.

Monitor and report who actually accessed and modified critical information

With IT facing exponential growth in service requests, users need to be able to do more with less dependency on their IT departments.

Create workflows to map and automate your business processes, e.g. document approval, routing documents or enabling email alerts based on conditional triggers/events or time.

Build applications or migrate to SharePoint platform to manage all your business data and remove islands of data sources.

Create rich forms to capture metadata and data required for business applications built on SharePoint.    

Compile, aggregate and surface data from external sources. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) enables more secure and efficient read/write access to a variety of external data.

Use SharePoint to Search and get deeper insight of all your data.

With SharePoint Server, organizations can derive greater value from their investments in data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) and analytics systems.

Self-service BI makes the insights from enterprise data more broadly and easily accessible across the entire organization. Users can build query and visualization tools and scorecards and expose enterprise data with dashboards;

Mash-up and analyse data from virtually any data source and create compelling analytical applications.

Create and publish reports using Excel Services. Utilise the power of Microsoft Excel to analyse your data with guided visualisation & shaping, Pivot Tables, Power View, Interactive Charts etc.

Use PerformancePoint Services to create scorecards & dashboards.

Social computing and collaboration enable people to work in ways that are familiar to them, but as social computing becomes more pervasive, more demand is put on the supporting infrastructure.

Community Sites in SharePoint provides an entire site focused around organising conversations and encouraging users to participate, ask questions and gain knowledge outside of traditional tools such as Email.

SharePoint makes it easy for users to find different content and people through everyday activities can greatly increase knowledge sharing and productivity;

Stay connected to information and people in SharePoint is as easy as ‘one click’ using the Like option, rate, add a colleague etc.

Stay in the loop can be achieved from a central Newsfeed location, requiring no effort by the user.

SharePoint Foundation: The underlying technology for all SharePoint sites. SharePoint Foundation 2013 is available for free on premises deployment. Quickly create many types of sites where you can collaborate on Web pages, documents, lists, calendars, and data. Note: This is only availabile  for SharePoint 2013.  This has been deprecated in other versions of SharePoint.

SharePoint Server 2013-2019: Includes all the features of SharePoint Foundation plus additional features and capabilities, such as Enterprise Content Management, business intelligence, enterprise search, personal sites, and Newsfeed.

End-user CALs are purchased for SharePoint Server as Standard and Enterprise for enterprise capabilities.

SharePoint Online: This is an online offering of from Microsoft.  This froms part of the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscription.