Efficient communication and networking is backbone of growing businesses. In fact there are so many challenges in today’s competitive marketplace like management of finances and cash flow, planning ahead of market, competitive intelligence, industry insights, implementing right systems and plans (physically as wells strategically) and many more.
Investigating on the lower level the key performance factors for a growing business boil down to two key components:
1) Finding expert employees for your growing business
2) Ensuring efficient, smart and quick communication and collaboration of your employees
True entrepreneurs believe in building a concrete platform where employee can maximize their productivity and output. I wouldn’t be exaggerating in saying that “communication & collaboration” work as heart pumping blood for business lifecycle. Yeah this is what keeps a business alive. More productivity leads to business growth and progressing companies make their employees happy and satisfied.
Microsoft productivity products need no introduction. In B2B scenario, Microsoft Exchange is a common name and most of the people are comfortable with this product. If Exchange is at the core of communication, Sharepoint represent business collaboration. Both of these products are crucial for a company and work best when integrated together. Integrating Sharepoint with Exchange Server helps users to use all the features of Sharepoint. Generally Sharepoint is accessible via web browser. If you have Exchange integrated with Sharepoint, your employees can access it using their email client – Outlook too and can explore many other missing features they cannot use with lonely Sharepoint.
How hosted Sharepoint helps? Sharepoint is simply a tool which enables your employees to create, view, share and find information from a single platform. Hosted Sharepoint 2010 is the latest version of this product in hosted environment. Hosted Sharepoint 2010 provides custom and easy solutions to share information and hence employees can access business information quickly and automatically become more productive in their respective tasks.
Beauty of Sharepoint 2010 hosting is you get a single access point as it combines various intranet, internet and extranet sites and is easy to use. In fact no need of any IT training. Yes the familiar interface of Microsoft Office applications makes it easy for users and hence your team is able to access right information quickly and make better decisions.
Being an experienced Toronto Hosted SharePoint provider, we know that the deployment of Hosted Sharepoint 2010 is quite flexible depending on the business need and customization requirements. With Hosted Sharepoint 2010 it is possible to deploy secure yet customized solutions matching various business needs. So you get best of both worlds.
If we talk about a real world example consider any of your department. Research is a vital part nowadays for every function to be in sync with latest updates. Most of your researching employees spend at least 30% of their time in finding relevant information. Now again the cycle keeps on going when your employees tend to share the information found and analyze that. Sharepoint simplifies all this tasks of finding, comparing and sharing information within a secure and familiar environment. This would be more useful and results would be amplified when you are implementing this process in large and complex projects. Working on complex projects involves many redundant steps for example emailing a large document to many users and then editing as and when you get the responses. Hosted Sharepoint 2010 eliminated all your pain points like poor user experience, inconsistent information sharing, extra time consumption, team inefficiency and helps you to achieve unified collaboration, transparency, quick management, improved team productivity, knowledge retention and security.
Talked a lot about benefits but the topic wouldn’t be complete unless we discuss the ROI of this hosted collaboration tool i.e. Hosted Sharepoint 2010. First of all you need to decide what business processes you are targeting to improve with Sharepoint. It could be reducing time consumption or increasing productivity or cost reductions or all of these. Then you can calculate the hours and hence dollars spent in accomplishing a project without Sharepoint using adhoc and inconsistent business processes. Don’t forget to add the redundant hours of sending emails and meetings to search and analyze the information.
Also this should be multiplied by the number of projects you think could be benefitted by adopting Sharepoint 2010 hosting. Not to mention the easy pay as you go monthly subscription cost of cloud platform, no need of IT resources and instant migration.
Other important factors to calculate the ROI of Hosted Sharepoint 2010 are knowledge retention and reusability, tracked risks and dependencies, no duplication of effort, efficient reporting, synchronized record management and above all null work blowouts.