Do you have an internal web site, also known as an intranet? Many companies do, and most were built with standard web tools to facilitate publishing of news, events, policies, procedures, forms etc. from management to the company. Typically, this means an intranet guru, or two, are the only people who can actually post information to the Intranet. Experts on certain subject matter are left to give their material to the guru, who might have many jobs beyond just updating the intranet, and they might get the information up in a day, two days, a week or never. Also, information stays up long after its value is gone. If you know the importance of an intranet but the update process is just as I described, Sharepoint Portal might be just the right solution. Sharepoint brings the publishing of information to the person who owns the information through a very easy interface familiar to anyone who knows how to use any word processor. In addition, there are web parts that allow you to share discussion groups, documents, issues lists, image libraries, and many other fancy features that can help you and your employees to share information and become more efficient.

In addition, there is a part of Sharepoint Services that allow you to perform collaborative processes much more effectively. Do you have documents that require multiple edits, they get passed around in email, and eventually no one is sure who edited what? Have you heard the question, “How did we do that last time?” around the office more than once? Is the next comment, “I don’t know. But I think Laura worked on it; maybe she remembers. It was really good; I hope someone wrote it down”? What if you could capture the business process while you are in the act and keep it in a way that made it easier to remember than to forget? Sharepoint collaborative services can do this for you. Squaretree can assist you by setting up original templates based on interviews and analysis of the current and future processes. We can then show your team how to use them and continue to modify, fine tune, and change as business methods are developed.