SharePoint 

Since SharePoint’s release in 2001, it has sold more than 100 million licenses, attracted more than 17,000 user companies, and generated more than $1 billion in sales for Microsoft.  SharePoint became the must have technology when it comes to collaborating and managing content management.  It not only offers easy integration with Microsoft Office desktop applications at a reasonable price but it also offers companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Intranet, Extranet, and Internet sites.

Key features of SharePoint's include:

  • Collaboration
  • Business Processes and Forms
  • Business Intelligence/Reporting
  • Enterprise Content Management
  • Enterprise Search
  • Portals

With so many enterprise content management (ECM) offerings in the market today, SharePoint differentiates itself from others with benefits such as:

  • Design for widespread user adoption
  • Deliver an integrated ECM solution
  • Design for heterogeneous environments
  • Design for extensibility
  • Provide a centralized location to quickly locate, store, and manage information
  • Provide a simple user experience that requires minimal training and is consistent throughout organizational departments
  • Provide users with a rich search interface for returning content and metadata, both from internal and external resource
  • Reduce IT workloads by providing powerful common management interfaces for content and organizational owners
  • Allow teams and individuals to connect and collaborate together regardless of where they are located.
  • Build a collaboration environment quickly and easily
  • Connect people with information and expertise
  • Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content
  • Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems
  • Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries
  • Share business data without divulging sensitive information
  • Reduce the complexity of securing business information
  • Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources
  • Provide a cost effective foundation for building Web-based applications
  • Deploy solutions tailored to your business processes
  • Easily scale your collaboration solution to meet business needs

General Networks’ SharePoint Practice specializes in custom SharePoint solutions.  These solutions include:

  • Implement KnowledgeLake image and data capture solutions
  • Configure electronic forms and workflows to speed up data collection and reduce errors
  • Setup project web sites to improve project collaboration
  • Configure business intelligence to present information from different sources in one location
  • Set up document libraries for Office users
  • Set up intranet/extranet portal
  • Integrate with various applications

For more information on Microsoft SharePoint solutions, visit: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com.