Microsoft SharePoint Server is a scalable portal solution is used for employee interaction and exchange of the data involved in business processes. It is designed to integrate the data from different sources into a single solution that provides an access to multiple enterprise applications.
Microsoft SharePoint Server helps to create new pages and entire web sites in the company's intranet, extranet and Internet. These sites support specific content publishing, information management, records management and business analytics.
Corporate portal solutions categories
Information sharing portals |
- The management needs a secure Web-based access to the latest data related to sales, warehouse balances and financial information.
- The sales managers need a quick access to the customer interaction history.
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Corporate portals (information sharing and collaboration) |
- The employees must be aware of changes within the company (news, events, developments, changes in corporate standards, etc.).
- The management must be aware of the sales dynamics in order to improve the customer interaction procedures.
- Besides, there is a necessity in a centralized access to contracts data with search capabilities.
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Intranet / Extranet |
- Closed customer section at the website.
- Dealer (partner) portal for vehicles and spare parts orders.
- Board of Directors portal providing for remote discussions and decision making.
- The necessity to distribute the information from the personnel department around the company.
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Microsoft SharePoint benefits
The key advantages of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server based solutions are the following:
- Simple, intuitive interface.
- Effective interaction with corporate information systems.
- Integrated search in heterogeneous IT environments.
- Access rights are easy to distribute.
- Possibility to create the board of directors, the dealer and the customer portals.
Microsoft SharePoint Server helps the employees to communicate effectively with working group members, find resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage information and business processes, and analyze business data to make reasonable decisions, thereby improving the company productivity.
BrightConsult (Incadea Group) Company together with Microsoft offers to realize a pilot project based on SharePoint Server 2010 at the customer's premises.
Functionality
Microsoft SharePoint Server in conjunction with other Microsoft software products provides a complete infrastructure for collaboration and data storage. The system provides several tools that allow you to deal with such business-critical tasks as a dynamic business analysis and decision support, information and business process management, information retrieval and data sharing between users and working groups:
- The workspaces are created for to share the resources by various user groups, departments and organizations. This provides a safe, self-maintained infrastructure for collaboration, which allows employees to communicate, share information, work on tasks, and expand Microsoft Office possibilities. The workspace can be extended beyond the firewall and ensure secure operations with partners, suppliers and customers.
- Portals provide employees with an access to critical business information, applications and accumulated experience. Microsoft SharePoint Server gives the employees an access to enterprise intranet portals, where industry data, expert knowledge and business processes are concentrated. A common corporate portal can combine various portals, business applications and business data into a single environment
- Business processes and forms help to streamline collaboration, simplify data collection and validation for business processes.
- Business intelligence functions provide the decision makers with an access to analytical information at any time and from any location, wherever they are.
- Social networking tools provide users with constant communication both inside and outside the organization, and allow the use of collaboration infrastructure to simplify document creation, information sharing, use of corporate analytical documents and directories.
- An expandable collaboration infrastructure allows organizations to save money and simplify the maintenance and creation of a single business infrastructure, increase the value of other products and technologies used in the organization, and lower the total cost of ownership of the information system.
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