Any Device

With the rise of BYOD (bring your own device) in the workplace, workers are now using more device types than ever. In addition, workers are expecting similar experiences across all devices.

SharePoint provides a unified experience with cross-browser and cross-device support. This includes support for desktops, laptops, mobile devices, tablets, phablets, large interactive touch-screen devices, etc. With the convenience of SharePoint’s multi-device support, workers who can quickly access files and information are much more likely to use it. As a result, this helps in boosting adoption rate and collaboration from your workforce.

Any Place

Today’s modern workers are always on go, whether at the office, an airport, a remote office, a client’s site, or hotel. In order to effectively collaborate, modern workers need seamless and speedy access to their shared content, when and where they need it.

Using SharePoint allows all your workers, regardless of location, easy and secure access to shared content without needing to install or log into additional software. This helps to reduce unnecessary delays while boosting collaboration and productivity.

Simultaneous Collaboration

The ability to simultaneously collaborate on a document with multiple team members is becoming increasingly important as the rate of business accelerates.

SharePoint allows multiple users to concurrently edit and share changes on a single document. As a result, the ability for simultaneous collaboration reduces document cycle time and promotes team collaboration.

Seamless Compatibility

A common problem with enterprise content solutions is that you may want to open or edit a document out on your content system, but you don’t have the right version of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc to open the file.

With SharePoint, you never have to worry about software versions. Workers are able to open their files and won’t experience these kind of compatibility issues. As a result, team members can focus on collaboration rather than file compatibility and software versions.

Centralized Security Control

When it comes to file sharing and collaboration, security should always be top of mind. You want to make sure the right people have the right access to the right documents so that sensitive data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

To avoid these issues, SharePoint leverages the centralized security model of Microsoft Active Directory (AD), either on-premises or in Azure. This greatly simplifies both the setup and maintenance of your document security control. As a result, IT admins can set and control security groups and permissions in one universal place and easily propagate them to all applicable locations.

Extended Network Sharing

Business doesn’t just happen in your four walls anymore. The business ecosystem includes partners, vendors, outside contractors, and nontraditional workers. Organizations need the ability to share documents both seamlessly and securely beyond the confines of their enterprise.

SharePoint easily provides the ability to externally share out specified documents with selected external work forces. This is done while allowing for centralized IT control and security to make sure the right people have access to the right documents, both inside and outside your organization.

Rapid Findability

You need information, and you need it fast. The speed of finding what you need, quickly, is critically important for all roles within an organization.

SharePoint maximizes findability and discoverability by allowing users to locate what they need on any attribute (name, file content, date, tagged metadata, keywords) in the most natural and intuitive way possible. As a result, the faster workers can find the related documents and information they need, the greater their ability to make knowledgeable, rapid business decisions.

Sprawl Control

The volume of information is growing at a rapid pace.  Keeping control over your file sprawl has become a chronic issue for many organizations. The more documents you have to sift through to find what you want, the lower your team’s productivity.

SharePoint provides an out-of-the-box, auto-archive capability that has a set of programmable business rules. As a result, SharePoint allows you to completely control how, when, and where the auto-archiving occurs – a “set it and forget it” style administrative feature.