SharePoint Collaboration

As the name suggests Collaboration helps in building an association between the SharePoint users, it provides an environment for users to share information with others across the organization. Since SharePoint is a web-based system, if connects users across various Geographical locations seamlessly.

Collaboration helps in building an organizational level knowledge repository, by centrally managing the information shared by all its users. If organized effectively this information will become a great knowledge assert for the organization over a period of time.

Collaboration enabled knowledge sharing by providing the following features.

Feature	Description
Contacts	Maintain a list of contacts in team and others across the Organization.
Calendars	Keep track of day-to-day activities. Set and track appointments.
Tasks list	Assign and Track tasks for users, helps in managing projects.
Wikis	Allows users to post details, other users can edit and update the details.
Blogs	Allows users to post details, other users can post comments of the post.
Surveys/ Discussions/ Forums	Provides a platform to discuss with other users on specific topics, can be initiate discussion with users across Geographical locations.
RSS	Allows subscriptions to a specific List / Column, so that a message is sent when the List / Column is modified.
Outlook Integration	Allows integrating with Outlook and share information from Outlook. Emails can be configured to be displayed in SharePoint, by specifying the SMTP server details / Exchange server details.
Alerts	Instant and Pre-Configured alerts. Instant alerts can be used for communication between 2 users Pre-Configured alerts can be triggered to fire when a certain change / configuration happen in the system.
Project Task List	Helps is managing Projects, Project Task List allows you to create tasks assign task to resources and track their progress. Shows the status using Gantt charts.
Documents library	Allows users to upload documents and share it with other users.
Slide Libraries	Allows storing PowerPoint slides and share it with the team.
Announcements list	Dashboard to post Project/Team announcements
Workflows	Helps in setting up a review/approval process items in List & Document Libraries.

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