Introducing Your Modern Office

Devices
Devices Devices

If you have an Office 365 subscription that includes SharePoint Online, you can use your device to view information on sites, collaborate with colleagues, access shared documents, and stay connected with your work using your mobile device. With SharePoint mobile, SharePoint Online is even more touch friendly than before.

Cloud
CloudCloud

SharePoint Server hosts OneDrive for Business, which allows storage and synchronization of information across devices, and public/private file sharing.

Social
Social Social

A SharePoint intranet or intranet portal is a way to centralize access to enterprise information and applications. It is a tool that helps a company manage its internal communications, applications and information more easily. Microsoft claims that this has organizational benefits such as increased employee engagement, centralizing process management, reducing new staff on-boarding costs, and providing the means to capture and share tacit knowledge.

Control
ControlControl

Document management controls the life cycle of documents in your organization — how they are created, reviewed, and published, and how they are ultimately disposed of or retained.

SharePoint helps integrates intranet, content management, and document management. SharePoint is used
by midsize businesses and large departments. Below are the features specific to the industry verticals,
please read below for solutions specific to your needs.

HR and Internal Communication

SharePoint HR Portal turns Microsoft SharePoint into a portal for Human Resources to keep detail employee information, manage hiring activities, terminations, employee performance process, onboarding and benefits information. It also includes service request tracking and integrates with SharePoint Intranet Portal's Employee Self Service features. Resources for the HR professional include task tracking, calendars, a My Activities page and department discussion forums. Whether you are a department of one, or more, SharePoint HR Portal gives you the key features to deliver responsive services to your organization's employees, while making sure policies are consistently updated.


HR also provides an employee facing portal for reviewing employee information, submitting service requests, performance appraisals, reference documents, and get the latest announcements from HR. Additionally automate employee onboarding and offboarding leveraging template tasks lists. This SharePoint employee onboarding template will save time and drive consistent processes across the organization when bringing new employees on board. Deliver tasks to IT, Admin, HR and more based on the task list template.

R&D, Production, & Operations

The Manufacturing Process Management in SharePoint helps teams document and track the steps involved in a linear manufacturing process. The product includes the ability to identify unique manufacturing steps. Users can then enter the step’s predecessor and any dependent steps to build a manufacturing timeline in a Gantt Chart format. Materials required and descriptions of the detailed tasks required can also be added to each step. The site also allows team users to identify issues that arise, assigning them to a step in the manufacturing process.


Manufacturing processes with issues are shown on the main page as red, enabling team members to see at a glance which processes are at risk of being delayed. Once an issue is identified, team members can assign task owners to resolve the issue or use the engineering contacts list to determine which team member is best suited to resolve the issue. The Manufacturing Process Management also includes an announcements location as well as the capability to upload supporting business information and product specification to the site.


Sales & Marketing

The Product and Marketing Requirements Planning SharePoint 2013 helps teams manage the process of creating new product requirements and marketing content. The site contains several useful templates for the Microsoft Office system as well as collaboration tools which can be used to help teams organize their analysis. The planning module provide help for organizing marketing and product requirements, creating product steering committee presentations, tracking meeting notes and completing financial information. The site enables team members to list contacts as well as upload supporting files such as pictures of competing products or a general description of the product being analysed.


The Sales Lead Pipeline SharePoint 2013 helps sales teams track the status of sales leads, opportunities and closed or lost deals. The site enables sales representatives to enter in information about a lead, including source, deal size and probability to close. If the lead proceeds to be worthwhile, the sales representative can convert it to an opportunity, which enables them to enter additional information about the potential customer such as next steps, competitors, key product enhancements desires and close date.

Finance & Accounting

The Expense Reimbursement and Approval Site SharePoint 2013 project helps companies track and organize employee expense reports. The employees create an expense report listing trip information and expenses. The document, which can be created either offline or online, is then saved to a folder on the Expense Reimbursement and Approval module, which automatically populates fields that are viewable from within the site. The managers can then choose to approve, reject or hold the expense report for original receipts. This status appears on each user’s unique home page, which shows their userID’s submitted expense reports and the status for each one. In addition to helping teams simplify the process of submitting and approving expense reports, the site also allows Human Resources managers to upload expense related documents, such as travel policies or approved hotel chains. Also included are announcements and tasks, which can be used to track items pertaining to the expense approval process.


Legal

The Case Management for Legal and Government Agencies helps agencies track the status of open cases. Case administrators can designate whether a case is open or closed, upload supporting documents for a particular case, and assign a case to a responsible case manager. The template also provides user specific dashboards which list cases and tasks owned by the authenticated user. Tasks can be created for each case and supporting documents can be uploaded to help case managers maintain to do items and related information in a single location.


Your company has a unique story, but like any great tale, it needs people to make it come alive. How do you get your employees excited about your vision? How do you get them talking about ideas… and talking to each other? Yammer makes it easy to keep everyone engaged. It’s a one-stop shop where people can find the latest news and information. It can be a great place for people to have live discussions, give real-time feedback, and share experiences. It's like a “social glue” that keeps your employees and your vision moving forward together.

Information Technology

The IT Team Workspace SharePoint 2013 template helps IT teams manage the development, deployment and support of software projects, tracking of bugs and provides functionality to help simplify the management of IT helpdesks. To help manage projects, the application template allows users to update information on projects, tasks, issues and milestones. Bugs are more easily managed by providing the capability for end users to enter bug report information. These reported bugs can then be assigned by the IT team to the correct developer. The template also includes help desk functionality, making it easy for team members to guide service requests from initiation to resolution. Role based dashboards provide relevant information to team members, such as unassigned tasks and performance history. This application template is a combination of three separately available templates: Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects, Bug Database and Help Desk.