Benefits of using SharePoint?
1. Improve team productivity: Connect people with the information and resources they need. Users can create team workspaces, coordinate calendars, organize documents, and receive important notifications and updates through communication features including announcements and alerts.2. Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content: With enhanced document management capabilities the ability to view revisions to documents and restore to previous versions, SharePoint can help ensure the integrity of documents stored on team sites.
3. Get users up to speed quickly: User interface includes enhanced views and menus that simplify navigation within SharePoint sites. Familiarity with the Microsoft product line, makes it easy for users to get up to speed quickly.
4. Take file sharing to a new level: SharePoint supplies workspaces with document storage and retrieval features, including check-in/check-out functionality, version history and customizable views.
5. Provide a cost-effective foundation for building Web-based applications: SharePoint provides a common framework for document management and collaboration from which flexible Web applications and Internet sites, specific to the needs of the organization, can be built.
6. Search capabilities: SharePoint provides unlimited resources for searching, including allowing the user to input a “friendly” name.