Strategic Value

Microsoft SharePoint Gives Strategic Value

Effective information sharing and collaboration is rapidly becoming a strategic platform advantage, but that advantage can be compromised if collaboration technologies are deployed in a piecemeal fashion.

How Hosted SharePoint Works

Hosted Microsoft SharePoint sites take file storage to a new level, providing communities for team collaboration and making it easy for users to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and other information. In addition, team and site managers can coordinate site content and user activity easily. The Hosted SharePoint environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development

Microsoft SharePoint sites are made up of Web Parts and Windows ASP.NET-based components. Hosted SharePoint ships with a number of ready-to-use application templates; more will be available in the future from Microsoft and third-party vendors.

Individual Empowerment

SharePoint site members can find and communicate with key contacts and experts, both by email and with instant messaging. Site content can be easily searched, and users can also receive alerts to tell them when existing documents and information have been changed, or when new information or documents have been added. Site content and layout can be personalized on a per-user basis, and Web Parts can be used to present targeted information to specific users on precise topics.

Microsoft Office System programs use SharePoint site content. All of a site's collaborative content—for example, documents, lists, events, task assignments, and membership rosters—can be read and edited within Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint. Picture editing of Web-based photo libraries is also possible. Microsoft Office Outlook allows SharePoint site event calendars to be viewed side-by-side with personal calendars, and it also creates meeting-specific workspaces to augment group appointments - thereby making your Hosted Exchange solution with 123Together.com even more powerful.

Team Community

SharePoint sites provide places to capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents. The sites facilitate team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration, and surveys. Site content is accessible from both a Web browser and through clients that support Web Services. The document collaboration features allow for easy check in, check out, and document version control.