What is Microsoft SharePoint? Why it is important for your business

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Published: September 9, 2021

Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise grade collaboration, communication and content management platform empowering individual, teams and organizations to share information, documents seamlessly, easily create intranets, business portals, manage content and business processes from anywhere at any time on any device.

Streamlining business processes and reducing costs becomes easy with the implementation of SharePoint. Taking advantage of the SharePoint features users, developers and designers can boost teams’ productivity, promote transparency, and information sharing.

Let’s discuss the SharePoint features in detail below that are compelling several leading companies to implement SharePoint in their business process.

1. Ease of enterprise information management

Ease of enterprise information management is one of the important features of SharePoint. It supports a good information architecture by allowing to effectively implement and manage information. Meets requirements like regulatory requirements, privacy needs and security goals. Also increases business effectiveness of the organization.

2. Easily customisable

SharePoint is easily customisable as per the team’s demand with a large range of features available out of the box. This feature makes it popular among enterprises. Teams can customize the application’s interface or continue with the default features available with the app.

3. Effective collaboration

This SharePoint feature is critical for enterprises that are working on a hybrid or remote location model. It allows teams working in different locations to communicate with one another through a single dashboard and a common storage platform. It also provides a smooth and efficient approach to team-based work, allowing information to flow freely throughout the company.

4. Easy integration with existing apps

Compatibility is never an issue with Microsoft SharePoint. It gets easily integrated with Microsoft applications like Microsoft Word, Office, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Teams, Power Automate, Power BI etc. Also, it can be integrated with many non-Microsoft apps.

5. Enhanced security

SharePoint’s enhanced security feature helps to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, data loss and system outages. It also assists organizations to improve data security by allowing them to select multiple settings to regulate data shareability, storage, and auditing, allowing them to better comply with industry regulatory data security requirements.

6. Streamlined and structured business process

SharePoint enables businesses to collect and organise data in one place using its integrated dashboards. Through its form-driven solution, collecting information, communication and interaction with multiple stakeholders become easy, enabling businesses to use data and correct resources to streamline business processes and deliver value-driven business outcomes.

Also Read these blog: How can Microsoft sharepoint Document Management system helps business

7. Notification and Approval

Some documents, like HR policy or invoices, need approval before they can be viewed by all users. Intimation and approval workflows can be managed using Power Automate which gels well with SharePoint. You can also use Power Automate to automate repetitive tasks and business process.

Conclusion 

Microsoft SharePoint has been recognized as a leader in the Gartner Content Services Platform Magic Quadrant for 2020. Its secure, scalable, collaborative, and customizable features get better with each update. MicroGenesis has formed strategic partnership with Microsoft to empower its customers efficiently organize vast amounts of content and data and streamline business processes. If you want to deploy SharePoint for your business, MicroGenesis can help. Know more about our Microsoft SharePoint Services :https://mgtechsoft.com/services/sharepoint-consulting-services/ or get a free consultation here: https://www.mgtechsoft.com/contact-us/   

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