Microsoft Sharepoint

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is the perfect team working and collaboration tool allowing users to share information, collaborate on documents, and collate team knowledge over the Internet or corporate network. Now available as a hosted service WSS fully integrates with the Microsoft Office System family of applications and Exchange 2003 providing the perfect instant Intranet or Extranet solution.

WSS is the leading solution for online team working and collaboration enabling a workforce to share documents, calendars, announcements and other postings all via an easy to use and secure Website. With WSS workers have access to information from anywhere at anytime providing individual empowerment within a team community, making the business more effective, and quicker to respond to changing markets and customer needs.

SharePoint sites are accessed securely through the Internet allowing a company’s staff to work together on projects and documents, share diaries, contacts and events. Simple document management ensures that you always know which the latest version of the document is through version tracking and check-in/check-out functionality. Central management through a secure Web interface allows for easy self administration including simple control of who can access the site and what site content is available to which users.


Service benefits

Hosted Windows Sharepoint Services takes online collaboration and teamwork to new levels. Benefits include:

  • Empowering employees and teams to work more productively by having access to real-time business information enabling employees to make good, timely decisions
  • Quicker response to customers and partners by consolidating customer and partner information to manage and drive sales opportunities
  • Get teams, business partners and customers on the same page so they can work together with speed and agility by easily creating team web sites for information sharing and document collaboration as required
  • Instead of just dumping files into directories, WSS supplies Web sites with document storage and retrieval with check-in and check-out functionality, version history, custom metadata, and flexible, customizable views
  • Find the information required when needed through flexible and powerful search options within your SharePoint sites
  • Online discussions, notifications and surveys enable teams to easily discuss relevant issues and reach consensus on important subjects quickly
  • Easily control and protect the information you share with your employees, partners and customers through security controls that allow only the correct users to see the data that they should and appropriate management of the SharePoint sites to which they are a member
  • Increased security & privacy including comprehensive antivirus protection, daily data backups and secure access via SSL/HTTPS that remove the need for expensive VPNs
  • Reduced risk through a service level that guarantees your business critical information is always available
  • Predictability of cost through pay-as-you-go per user per month pricing that allows you to quickly and easily respond to changing workforce numbers and structure
  • Reduced Total Cost of Ownership through using a hosted outsourced solution that frees over-stretched IT departments to focus on core business objectives and applications
  • Through Web services provided by WSS, programs in the Microsoft Office System – including Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel - can use information in WSS sites natively, allowing users to add members to sites, assign tasks, and communicate with members by email, all while working on documents stored in WSS sites
  • With Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003, users can view calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint sites and can create and manage sites devoted to editing documents and organizing meetings

Who can benefit?

Any business that wants to benefit from efficient collaboration, increased customer and partner responsiveness, faster and more reliable communication, with reduced operating costs and flexible, secure access.

The typical profile for a Hosted WSS 2003 customer includes:

  • Project-based companies wanting to control team projects more efficiently
  • Multiple office location organisations
  • A highly mobile workforce – home workers, field-based teams
  • An overstretched IT department

Hosted WSS is a versatile tool that benefits all types of market segments. All types and sizes and companies can benefit from what it has to offer.


Is it for you?

  • Is efficient sharing of information critical to your business?
  • Does your company struggle to keep data visible to all team members?
  • Do you have a centralised and secure location, accessible from anywhere that allows users to effective work as a team and collaborate together?
  • Do you have difficulty in tracking different document versions and user changes?
  • Would you like to be able to free up IT department resources to focus on core business needs and activities?
  • Do you want to benefit from the latest software and services without the cost of implementation, maintenance and support?
  • Do your employees need to work collaboratively with colleagues, customers, partners or suppliers?
  • Do you want to remove the worry and unpredictable cost of supporting an in-house collaboration solution?

If you answer yes to any of the above questions then it is likely that Hosted Windows SharePoint Services 2003 will benefit your business. For further information or a quote please contact

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