Monday, August 13, 2012

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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