Let me start that I really love SharePoint. The affair started as soon as the beta of MOSS 2007 came out and tried out by me. Boy! That feeling of first love was amazing. I was floating on my business focused sales geek mind to relate it with all my then current client situations where they wanted something that was already available out of box in SharePoint. Starting from document management, to accesses LOB on dash board to sharing enterprise wide colanders and events came to me at that moment as dancing star with possibility of implementation to clients. Now after more than 100+ MOSS solutions delivery by us the bond is getting more and stronger. The one company one product focus evolved somewhere around December 2006. I am excited to see WSS's prominence in all Microsoft products including recently worked Commerce Server 2009 "SharePoint Commerce Service" to news of making "SharePoint Designer" a free tool to having close integration of "Groove" in upcoming release and as on 1st April 2009 PerformancePoint Server 2007 being sold as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Enterprise 2007..oh..its all exciting.
Let's now forget my above business/sales related brag and talk about what there in SharePoint which made this love affair for me.
1) Collaboration out of box for workspace and effective business process automation.
2) It is not only a collaboration tool but it's much more than that. It has features for MIS reporting, BI reporting, CRM, Process automation, document management, presenting LOB data in executive readable formats, accessing complex ERP data with ease as if using Microsoft Word, and the list goes on….the main thing this is a technology catalyst product for all your organizational IT need.
3) SharePoint a Technology Catalyst for business applications: I have used word catalyst as it is really a catalyst to help those great products achieve their true business goals by presenting and interface between most of business applications in use including ERP, Lobs, legacy applications and any other information
4) Customizable to the need of scenario of implementation or even better, create your bespoke or custom module within it as Web Part.
5) It is already a centralized dash board system in use for many businesses and the trend is already moving in the same direction for remaining.
6) Global diverse group of business needs solution with ensuring all compliance with single stack holder view across companies, branches our countries. – Simple out of box and available for customization.
7) Did you know this is part of Office System so this is a business productivity enhancer and faster user acceptance system I have ever seen or heard from client feedback.
8) My speculation and excitement for upcoming release of SharePoint – (read them all here)
9) It helps businesses to optimize overall IT ownership cost. (read in detail here)
10) See these SharePoint customer evidences of SharePoint Technology utilization in their businesses.
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