SharePoint offers a very broad base of application functionality. Here are just a few samples of the applications that SharePoint is well suited to address:
Customer & Vendor Communication
- Request for Quotations
- Project Management
- Customer Portals to secured information that can be typically maintained in the company's enterprise management system such as open orders, current prices, current inventory, sales history, and payment history.
- Vendor Portals to secured information that can be typically maintained in the company's enterprise management system such as open purchase orders, current prices, current inventory, purchase history, and payment history.
Web Site Management
- Provide the ability to manage all content of your company's web site, whether it is a public external web site, or a private internal web site used for all internal communication
- Provides the ability to access secured extensions to your company's web site. This is typically used for customers and vendors.
Workflow Management
- Can be internal workflows such as setting up a new customer, or setting up a new vendor, or external workflows such as key customer or vendor verification process.
Marketing/Customer Service
- Electronic distribution of sales literature using a secured web site portal
- Electronic distribution of product/service technical specifications using a secured web site portal
Employee Communication
- Telephone Directory
- Organization Charts
- Vacation Requests/Approvals/Schedules
- Expense Requests/Approvals
- Bulletin Board
- News Releases