Collaboration and productivity solutions
SharePoint and Office 365 | Full-Scale Collaboration
SharePoint and Office 365: the Gist
For the fourth year running, Microsoft has been named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant. The company’s most popular collaboration platforms are Office 365 and SharePoint Online. They are used to build feature-rich and cost-effective solutions for document, contract, and knowledge management and internal and external collaboration for businesses of different sizes and industries.
SharePoint
200 million users
200,000 organizations
+20,000 new users every day
Famous brands using SharePoint: UPS, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Viacom.
Office 365
20 million users worldwide
20% of corporate employees in the world use this collaboration suite
85% of Fortune 500 companies use Office 365
Famous brands using Office 365: NASA, Air France, Carpool.
SharePoint and Office 365 Functionality
SharePoint
Human resources management
- Employee information management.
- Recruitment, hiring and onboarding management.
- Time and attendance management.
- Employee performance tracking.
- Payroll management.
- Employee request management.
Learning management
- Learning materials creation and storage.
- Assigning and scheduling trainings.
- Learning assessment.
- Certification management.
- Competency management.
- Gamification features (badges, points, leaderboards).
Document management
- Document lifecycle automation.
- Templates.
- Co-authoring.
- Full text and metadata search (search results filtering and ranking, search across integrated systems).
- Versioning.
- Audit trail.
- E-signature software integration.
- Compliance management.
Office 365
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SharePoint and Office 365 Functionality
Design
Logos, styles, colors, master pages, and page layouts. To create a unique look and feel and promote corporate culture across the company.
Workflows
E.g., tax calculation workflow. To create complex and non-linear custom workflows. They can be created using tools like Power Automate and Visual Studio.
Forms
Forms for surveys, quizzes and polls. To collect employee feedback, measure employee satisfaction, organize corporate events, can be created using PowerApps or Microsoft Forms.
SharePoint and Office 365 Use Cases
HR intranet
- Employee information management.
- Recruitment, hiring and onboarding management.
- Employee benefits management.
- Payroll management.
- Time and attendance management.
- Professional development.
- Employee request management.
Business Oriented intranet
- Document management.
- Project and task management.
- Employee communication and collaboration.
- Business analytics and reporting.
- Knowledge management.
- Learning management.
- Policy and compliance management.
Social Intranet
Document management
Document Management System
- Document templates.
- Multistep and non-linear approval workflows.
- Real-time collaboration on documents.
- Enterprise search.
- Permission-based access to documents.
- Document versioning and audit trail.
- Regulatory compliance support.
Contract Management System
- Contract templates.
- Guided contract creation.
- Contract co-authoring.
- Full-text and metadata search.
- Hierarchical approval workflows.
- Parent-child contract hierarchies.
- Contract versioning.
- Compliance check.
Legal Case Management System
- Client and matter management.
- Tracking key dates and deadlines.
- Time recording and billing.
- Client accounting and invoicing.
- Business and financial reporting.