Portals & Collaboration

The trend towards greater collaboration in the workplace, greater sharing of information and greater co-operation between business teams is largely a response to the growing challenges and business risks brought about by the inevitable dependence on computer technology.  Few businesses have escaped Email hell, where Email has become over-used; used to disseminate inappropriate information such as gossip, trivia, highly sensitive documents and files that are too large to be circulated by Email.  Networks creak at the seams as a result.  Email servers reach capacity and senior management suddenly realise just how dependent they are on this system now being tested at full stretch.

Sound familiar?  The answer is to reflect on those procedures and tools used to generate, store and exploit different information sources.  SharePoint provides an environment within which information of different types can be stored, catalogued, accessed, cross-referenced and reported-on in a very intuitive way.  Whether your organisation operates on project lines or in a more traditional functional structure, SharePoint can be configured to support natural business work packages and structures, ensuring information assets are available when needed, yet protected.  The use of portal technologies such as SharePoint requires a cultural shift to a more collaborative approach to working featuring greater exchange of information and results in a more efficient and effective administrative process for the business.

InfoStrata Solutions provides the know-how to assist clients to understand how they can benefit from using SharePoint to organise and manage their information assets, and how to go about preparing to introduce the technology together with the culture change processes that must be deployed.

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