The volume of information that an organization has to handle continues to increase as the business progresses, making information management a dreadful assignment. Apart from the increase of business information, businesses are now embracing the trend of in a paperless working environment. Physical documents are now being transformed into electronic information for efficient archiving. Microsoft SharePoint and other Content Management Systems (CMS) are nowadays solutions made specifically to help address the need for organizing electronic documents.
What Is Microsoft SharePoint?
For those new to handling electronic information, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, or most popular, only as SharePoint, allows members of an organization to easily share company information at any time, providing grounds for work collaboration and helping create virtual groups. Paper documents are transformed into PDF files to be included in SharePoint. Microsoft SharePoint is the preferred choice of many professionals and systems administrators to handle their need to organize business information.
Storing electronic information in folders and hosting it on high-end servers does not answer all the needs. Though classified as a CMS, Microsoft SharePoint functions more than that. Users can integrate additional components provided by either Microsoft itself or any third party vendor. It functions similar to other web-based applications hosted on a dedicated server and accessed by multiple users.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 bragged about performing even better than the rest of its family. It includes support for multiple browsers used in the cloud and supports Silverlight Web Part, which allows administrators to integrate Silverlight applications with no hassle. With a simplified yet robust implementation and design, organizations are envisioned to save their IT infrastructures, while enhancing search and collaboration solutions. SharePoint also enables organizations to compose solutions that will be available for everyone in the organization.