Improve collaboration with SharePoint Online
Team collaboration is a major aspect to how successful your organisation will be. This is why building successful collaboration in the workplace is more critical than ever before. To achieve this, you would be using several tactics and tools to improve the collective employee experience for better communication and knowledge sharing.
SharePoint online is a web-based platform designed in a way to support collaboration and offer complete access to application features such as document libraries, lists, calendar, news articles, and other web parts to improve workflow for business teams/project teams.
- Intranet: A SharePoint intranet or intranet portal centralizes access to enterprise information and applications. This helps organizations manage internal communications, applications, and information.
- “Groupware” or “Team Sites” : SharePoint contains team collaboration “groupware” or “team site” capabilities. These include project scheduling (integrated with Outlook and Project), social collaboration, shared mailboxes, and project related document storage and collaboration.
- Using SharePoint sites to create a project “big picture” : Managing your projects in a SharePoint site keeps everything in one place on the project homepage for immediate visibility.
- Managing tasks and responsibilities with ‘My Work’ reports: Using “My Work” reports in SharePoint makes it easy to find, do, and update tasks in one place.
- Enterprise Content and Document Management: SharePoint allows for storage, retrieval, searching, archiving, tracking, management, and reporting on electronic documents and records.
- SharePoint for Project Management: From project initiation to the closing of the project, SharePoint facilitates for all the stages of collaborative project management. Create team sites, Manage tasks with work management lists and dashboards, Create Project Status Reports, Use the Microsoft Project to SharePoint sync, Progress updates and deadlines, Timelines and budgeting and more.
- Integrate Microsoft Teams with SharePoint: Microsoft Teams lets you have different groups with sub-channels to organize conversations and discussions around particular topics or projects.
- Custom Web Applications: SharePoint's custom development capabilities add a layer of services that allow rapid prototyping of integrated Web applications. SharePoint provides developers with integration into corporate directories and data sources through standards such as REST/OData/OAuth.
SharePoint platform can be reformed and tailored as per the enterprise needs of collaboration & communication. For both team-based and company-wide collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint is an outstanding tool that can connect all your employees over a single channel. We can can assist you in creating a custom Microsoft SharePoint solution that will transform your company into a more collaborative workplace. Contact us for more information.
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