SharePoint Team Services
Effective, Efficient CollaborationMore data, more people, more options for accessing information – coordinating activities and information is an ever-increasing challenge for today's business organizations. Windows SharePoint Team Services is a free, built-in component of Windows Server 2003 and Windows Small Business Server 2003. SharePoint Services can be easily turned on and implemented as a combination of the bulletin board, file cabinet and water cooler of years gone by, with lots more features that today's technology has made possible.

Intranet- a Dashboard for Your Business
- A website just for your internal staff that can be setup very quickly and modified by a user with average computer skills.
- Post announcements, list links to important websites, give employees access to corporate documents and organize all kinds of information.
Document Collaboration
- Much more efficient and effective than emailing attachments
- Post documents for review, check them in and out, and notify relevant individuals of revisions.
Departmental/Project Sites
- A sub-site can be put up quickly and used by a specific department to coordinate their activities.
- Sites can be for an individual department, a project or a meeting – enabling everyone involved easy access to all relevant information.
- End users who can work with a simple Excel spreadsheet can update and change the site as needed.
Discussion Boards
- Emailing back and forth in the form of a running discussion can be cumbersome and inefficient.
- Discussion boards can be set up quickly on a SharePoint site to enable staff to hash over a particular topic. A record is kept, and the flow is kept out of the email chain.
Implementation SharePoint Services comes with Windows Server 2003 and Windows Small Business Server at no additional cost – it is simply an option that can be turned on as part of Windows Server. The initial setup and installation requires IT administration skills, but adding and modifying content is well within the abilities of most users. BEI can set a SharePoint site up for your organization and work with you to quickly get your company working and collaborating more effectively.
For more information checkout our newsletter article on SharePoint Team Services.
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