Sharepoint Hosted Solution at BNS Hosting

Many small to medium companies are starting to see the advantages of hosted applications like Microsoft's Windows Sharepoint Services. SharePoint Services is a tool to enhance collaboration in the workplace. In order to have the technology work for your business, you need to foster an environment that promotes collaboration. Without this environment, no technology tool will ever work. Business owners today need to make sure that the lines of communication inside their business are flowing in both directions.

What does Sharepoint Services offer?

• Document Libraries are repositories for your team to work together on documents, spreadsheets, presentations and whatever else you need to work on. Inside the document libraries you can secure your information and set rights on what people can do or see, control document versions plus so much more.

• Shared calendars are available inside Windows SharePoint Services where you can post corporate events, important dates, meetings or whatever calendar information you need to post. With the calendar and many other features inside SharePoint you can also view this information inside your Microsoft Outlook application on your desktop.

• Has anyone on your staff missed an important meeting? With SharePoint you can put announcements right on your main page, so that everyone can see what is happening in your business. New product launches, important information or any other announcement that you may have in the past, broadcasted out via email to your entire team.

• Have online feeds sent right to your SharePoint site. SharePoint can link into any RSS feed service. This is great if you want to show items such as road reports, weather conditions, stock prices and any other information you need to see when released. SharePoint will become the portal for your small business to get the information you need.

• Another powerful tool inside SharePoint Services is the ability to control workflow process. Does your business suffer from workflow challenges? How does your business suffer when your team skips steps in the process? What if you had a tool that would increase productivity and results by managing workflow? Would your business prosper?

The most important tip to a successful implementation of Windows SharePoint is to keep it simple. SharePoint needs to slowly introduced to your team, include them in the implementation and planning of your site, promote buy-in from all departments in your business. When the entire team is involved, your rollout and adoption of SharePoint Services will be a success.

Another advantage that companies must consider is the financial investment on this hosted solution.

- Low cost-of-ownership and cost predictability

- Intermediate deployment

- Scale up or down as needed, with no risk

- Anytime, anywhere access to information

- Business class collaboration

- Secure and reliable performance for the highest productivity

BNS Hosting is offering Sharepoint services, and one of its client, BPAP or Business Processing Association Philippines has acquired this service. The company now uses Microsoft Small Business Server with its Sharepoint and Microsoft Exchange to push email to their members.

For more inquiries, you can email team[@]bnshosting.net, or you may call (63)23302871, or just visit our site www.bnshosting.net to have an online chat with one of our hosted solutions expert.