Microsoft Sharepoint

SharePoint Pros and Cons to Boost your Business

By April 25, 2018 November 5th, 2020 No Comments

As businesses grow the work at hand increases as well, making an organization view the work that’s piling up as tedious to perform. But, with SharePoint implemented throughout your organization, it makes scheduling and implementation easier, allowing your employees to make the best of the work at hand, irrespective of the amount of task. Though there are many pros that SharePoint offers, there are a few areas where the platform lags behind. Thanks to the regular updates from Microsoft, it helps the cons stay at bay. Let’s take a look at a few facts on the same below.

  1. Easy Accessibility:

SharePoint enables teams to stay connected and on the schedule of their concerned tasks. It permits access to information easily and helps the team in discussions with each other making them more effective and prompt. In addition, it helps generate excellent output, enhances quality performance and minimizes errors that would have occurred without the software in place.

  1. Incessant Updates:

 Microsoft consistently modernizes SharePoint platforms so as to meet the changing demands of the everyday market. For example, the 2010 version of SharePoint empowers employees by allowing them to have accurate access to any information they need from any location and from several different locations at the same time.  The 2016 version allows you to navigate your SharePoint sites, rename files, create new files, send messages, view links to sites from your firm, post content, upload, share files, sync any file, and much more.

  1. Increases Security and Back-Up:

If you’re using SharePoint in your company, don’t be worried about securing your confidential data. SharePoint allows only certain individuals to have complete authorization to specific areas of the intranet, avoiding confidential data from being leaked out, or misplaced. If your present system lacks this features, contact specialist for assistance.

  1. Provides a Reliable System:

To minimize the ups and down involved during installation and implementation of SharePoint, Microsoft has a trustworthy and well-managed system which allows Office 365 to be set-up, and operated effectively and easily.

   SharePoint and Its Cons:

  1. Requires Proficient Assistance:

To get the right software fitting to achieve your organization’s goal, you must hire the right expert to set it up, even when there is need to upgrade your system and its additional features. Hiring a genuine expert can be pricey, but considering the benefits, it’s worthwhile.

  1. Lack of Control:

 If thorough care is not taken when moving information from the cloud to the software, it could lead to a hindrance in your entire business activities, preventing continuity. Make an effort to employ an expert software developer for this task in order to achieve perfect system implementation.

  1. Creates Deployment issues:

 If you implement SharePoint in a small intranet environment, you may not get achieve complete benefits of the service unless you have a separate workflow server as well as a separate Outlook Web Access server to allow you to utilize the software to its best.

Products such as SharePoint, Office 365 and Skype for Business can be customized to gratify your business requirements, whether you are looking for a platform to store content and share ideas, or to improve communication between colleagues. Contact Urbansoft for further assistance!