Top 10 Benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Services

Microsoft Office SharePoint Services help enterprises to install a portal that connects with users, teams, and knowledge seamlessly so that people can organize and collaborate more efficiently. Top 10 benefits of using SharePoint in one’s organization are:

1. Creates a complete view of your business: Access all of the information, documents, and applications that you use through Microsoft Office SharePoint Services.

2. More productive by having immediate access to relevant information:You can organize all of the information, files, and applications that you access throughout the day in a single view on MySite. You can even sign up for alerts to find out when information has been created or updated anywhere in the portal.

3. Shares knowledge across the enterprise: Business units can integrate their SharePoint portal into the enterprise portal, enabling them to share knowledge with other business units. Portal users can publish documents and best practices to the rest of the organization by adding them to the public view.

4. Finds and makes the most of organization's intellectual capital: The search technology in SharePoint enables you to locate files, project plans, and best practices in different file shares and databases. Microsoft Office SharePoint services provide access to the people and teams that contribute knowledge to your organization.

5. Finds, aggregates, and provides SharePoint sites: SharePoint takes advantage of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) sites to create portal pages for storing data in organizations. The portal enables collaboration with the help of WSS sites, enabling you to organize, manage, and provision SharePoint sites from the portal.

6. Creates self-service portals: Create self-service portals for employees, partners, and customers. Because SharePoint services are easy to use, you can deploy it as an extranet and enable customers and partners to place and track their orders or search for support documents—improving customer satisfaction while being cost-effective in support.

7. Automates business processes: Microsoft Office SharePoint services helps find relevant information for you. Alerts notify you when any relevant file, SharePoint site, person, or application has been added or changed. Audience targeting enables IT groups to give relevant information to user groups with similar job roles, titles, or interests.

8. Speed of adoption by using familiar interfaces and tools: SharePoint speeds user adoption and lowers training costs by using a familiar browser interface and allowing users to perform portal tasks within their Microsoft Office System programs. Web Parts can be added and customized by IT professionals that expose information, applications, and Web Services by using familiar web development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET.

9. Reduce development time and cost with out-of-the-box portal services: Portal services such as search, news, and My Sites are available immediately. Web Parts that provide read/write access to programs such as Outlook are also available easily, lowering development costs.

10. Ease of deployment with flexible options: Regardless of whether your organization wants to take a top-down or bottom-up deployment approach to portal development, SharePoint has a model that fits your needs. Through shared services, you can deploy enterprise-wide services such as search, indexing, audience management, and MySite hosting in one central place.