You want to improve the team collaboration, Better manage documents, Find information faster, again, Map approval processes automatically, and a functioning Knowledge management introduce? You could find no solution so far? You are in good company! After more standardized business processes in inventory management, Accounting or inventory management z.B. well mapped by ERP solutions, do software vendors with knowledge- and document-based processes still hard. IT platforms such as SharePoint here allow a huge productivity surge in the companies, with almost immediate return in investment.

Document management via Outlook?

Approval processes for documents are handled by E-Mail questions, the electronic mailbox acts as a mini-document management and archive, and rather, they searched his E-Mails than the file folder. Tabellenkalkulationen wie Microsoft Intelligence Solutions Excel mutate to sophisticated business, Facts and figures are collected from various sources and evaluated. Is the one or the other type of management known you?

With SharePoint 2010 Microsoft provides a platform with finished components available, the quasi only need to be assembled. Now, at least in theory. In practice is the consideration of the organizational processes are, that should be simplified and improved. Intelligent addressed, can be then but really with SharePoint very quickly effective solutions.

Solutions for my organization

Many companies have already identified, Where there is room for improvement, but still not a holistic approach decided to.

In the Requirements the following general requirements are often referred to as our customers:

• Communication and collaboration team support and simplify
• Document management as easy as possible, with automatic processing history
• Intranet with all corporate information and easy to maintain
• Simplify a wide variety of lists, manage and evaluate
• Better filter information and data, sort and provide
• Easily find information in different ways
• Better use of knowledge in the minds of the staff as a corporate capital
• Approval processes for documents and information more easily and automatically map
• Employees can use the innovations with little learning effort and costs
• Individual business processes you want to can be depicted simply electronically
• Data from ERP- or CRM systems should be integrated better

Is SharePoint the solution?
SharePoint allows you, Modules for these issues with little effort of quasi tree and configure. The result is a portal available, the solutions for several or even all the o.g. Provides requirements. The technical capabilities of SharePoint are tempting and encourage, to set up approval processes quickly, To store documents in SharePoint or an intranet portal out of the ground to stomp. The actual potential of the SharePoint platform, a productivity boost for the entire company to achieve or significantly reduce processing costs, is not exhausted so but often. Before implementing a conceptual approach is. Ask yourself the following questions:

• What processes in the company are cumbersome and costly?
• Where information collected multiple or mixed?
• Where must information be sought out tedious, which should be actually available in existing systems?

Build an innovation team, that highlights these issues and for management, Head of Department(n) and should be used together IT managers. This should answer the questions as specifically for your company. Avoid any discussion board, determine a project manager, He brings together the results, which moderated implementation in the framework of an innovation project.

Unmittelbarer Return on Investment?

As a result, a catalogue is produced, with priorities for processing. Central advantage: You can implement the most useful requirements first and get concrete results with little effort. In addition to the almost immediate return on investment, you get also a wide acceptance of the user. Are the requirements, so, SharePoint provides an extremely compact implementation. Finished building blocks can be fully configured and adapted to your business processes.

Can ideally clerk processes such as contract management or Complaint processing or other release- and approval processes, technically implemented within a few days and will be introduced in the company. The cost of introduction of is very low, because most staff are already familiar with the Office products and need to learn only a few new features.

What costs will I need?

A flat response is not possible, depends but very much of the scope of the requirements. But SharePoint solutions, especially for medium-sized enterprises, rather be implemented in days or weeks instead of months and years. According to very simple projects can already be implemented with a few person days service expenses, Education and training the users included. And also the Licensing SharePoint is SME friendly. Already in the basic solution Microsoft SharePoint Foundation (so far SharePoint Services) is a comprehensive performance- and functionality included, and these can be with existing Windows Server- and client licenses royalty-free be used. For more complex applications with a full integration of ERP- or an expensive licensing, however, is CRM applications by Microsoft SharePoint Server required.

The Administration gives us to think

The thinking done so far still no software, non-SharePoint. Have been resolved but the organisational considerations and requirements, so, SharePoint provides a platform, the highly compact and often pure configuration put by to the requirements can be, often already with a few days of service.