Overview of Work Together Better
At ThreeWill, we use the term “work together better” to describe our focus on building team productivity solutions and enabling effective collaboration. One of the key focus areas for SharePoint in both the current version as well as previous versions was on enabling team collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services v3 is a multi-purpose technology that organizations and business units can take advantage of whether they are large or small. To provide these features, SharePoint has tools to keep teams connected across organizations and geographies as well as tools to create fully functional applications. By keeping your organization connected with up to date information, SharePoint can become a central location for efficiently working teams.
Office and SharePoint targeting for Team Productivity
One of the core features of SharePoint is the in collaboration. SharePoint provides portal functionality by allowing teams to create self service team web sites. These websites can contain information about the team and team documents. New templates such as blogs and wikis have been added to SharePoint to create more possibilities for collaboration.
Key Features Across Solutions That We Build
What else does “work together better” mean? We believe that these are a number of the key team productivity features that the Office System and solutions that we build help address -
- Team members are kept on the same page and everyone has the latest information
- Information is easily accessible - Quick and familiar user interface
- Information is searchable
- You have visibility of information that is important to you
- You have notifications when appropriate on risks or documents/data that need your input
- Works the same/similar whether online or offline
- Team members can still work when disconnected/offline
- Team members can access information from a wide variety of devices (like mobile, Pocket PC)
- Browser based interface supported
- Focused on accomplishing goals/objectives
- Easy to use (even basic computer users can use) so adoption of solution is high
- Easy to create and update plans
- Team members can prioritize information
- Measurement/ metrics for productivity and progress
- You can secure information using role based security
- Team members can distribute to the right people
- You can easily create workflows for tasks like collecting feedback, approval, and people driven processes
- Security access for seeing/changing data when appropriate
- Has idea of workspaces to allow for flexibility of having your team change over time
- Minimize the number of tools involved (i.e. Outlook and SharePoint vs. Outlook, SharePoint, Groove, MSN, and several LOB apps on different platforms that are not integrated)
- Systems enforce best practices (i.e. workflow is applied)
- Approval Processes that support digital signatures
- Support for archival and information rights policies
- Integrates with other systems
- Data can be passed easily from one application to the next
- Supports ad-hoc processes and standardized processes