Must Know Facts before Outsourcing a SharePoint Project
Are you fed up of searching a specific file in pile of important files as it consumes a lot of time? Most of you will agree with me on this. Therefore, to overcome this you will need a Microsoft SharePoint solution. Besides managing your data repository, SharePoint solution allows team members located at geographically different locations to work closely and to be aware of who is doing what. Secure sharing of important documents within the extranet is one of the basic features of SharePoint solutions.
To get such a solution developed in minimum time you can outsource SharePoint application development, but before that, you should know about some important facts about SharePoint technology. How popular is SharePoint? This application of Microsoft’s is adopted by many organizations and in the times to come, it is expected to rise. In a year, approximately 100 million users install this application. Recently, in a report a statement was made regarding SharePoint that it is being used as the document and collaboration centered platform, widely. How SharePoint serves wide variety of people? SharePoint is capable of serving different people with different needs because it is a suite of different apps. Some of them, for example are: • Content Management System • Organization’s very own social networking portal • Helps in intranet, portal & extranet creation • Provides tools to collaborate • Manages project and workflows • Business intelligence • Enterprise search Enterprises choose SharePoint to accomplish different tasks with different techniques. For example, some may make their portal matching to their web presence while some make the portal’s design extremely different. This favors the fact that SharePoint applications can be organized in different ways depending on enterprises’ requirement.
How to be prepared for adopting SharePoint? For any organization, that is thinking of using SharePoint for the first time, it is important they make plan on how they will be using it or what would be the best way to use it. The plan should at least consist of following things: • A nomenclature must be developed for the data to be stored in the SharePoint • Which application of SharePoint will be used by whom • How will the support be provided to the SharePoint users? The technologies on which SharePoint relies? To run SharePoint properly, other supporting technologies are required to run properly too. Some of these are: • Windows operating system • Active directory • Internet Information server (IIS) • Domain Name Server (DNS) • Structured Query Language (SQL) database • E-mail servers Amy glitch in any of the supporting technology may become the reason behind the failure of SharePoint solutions.