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Reasons For Investment In SharePoint 2010

The composite company sees a growing need to build a culture of collaboration and to use modern tools and infrastructure to support collaboration trends that will enhance employee productivity and create competitive advantages for client service. Furthermore, the company has identified significant cost savings opportunities from tool and technology consolidation:

  • Build a collaboration platform that is not “hard-coded” and can be flexible toward changing business requirements, standards and legal requirements, communication patterns, workflows, and reporting.

  • Consolidate the proliferation of tools, technologies, and vendors for cost savings, lower maintenance, and management demands. 

    • Consolidate collaboration environment and support team activities on a single platform.

    • Deploy new capabilities in SharePoint 2010 for document and records management, blogging, wikis, and other applications; replace a homegrown learning management system.

    • Deploy a unified Web content management and enterprise content management platform.

    • Leverage user and IT staff familiarity with MS Office tools.

    • Replace some instructor-led training in favor of self-service tutorials and team learning, generating benefits from just-in-time learning, lower time requirements, and travel cost savings.

  • Push the development of simple SharePoint applications and new collaboration capabilities to the business units, freeing IT for more strategic projects. Increase business user/knowledge worker productivity.
  • Integrate content and records management using a common data classification interface.
  • Allow multiple users to simultaneously work on documents without check-in and checkout delays via co-authoring capabilities.

    • Improve search capabilities, and save knowledge worker time spent locating corporate, client, and external content.

    • Provide more effective support for telecommuters and virtual teams.

    • Support the kinds of Social Computing and Web 2.0 functions that are familiar to employees with My Sites, Team Sites, and knowledge and idea sharing, and support better access to experts and communities of interest.