Part of SharePoint’s platform is the powerful OneDrive for Business. OneDrive offers users a complete system for storing, syncing and finding files easily from anywhere in the world, as well as providing collaborative workspace for users.
OneDrive allows you to do several things that make work much easier for you and your employees, including:
You may have heard the term “farm” thrown around in connection with SharePoint or other software. What does this term mean when it is used in the context, and how can it help your business with data management?
A “farm” is a logical grouping of servers that share common resources and send data to multiple sites. Typically, a farm stands alone and is not connected to any outside servers, but there may be connectivity through another part of the data platform that allows users to connect to cloud-based storage, for example.
We can hardly say enough about SharePoint because every time we talk about one great feature, two more seem to pop up! Here are some great features of SharePoint that you may not realize you can incorporate into your own business management.
One of the best features about SharePoint, and one that makes it useful to thousands of business owners who are struggling to find good collaboration software, is the fact that with the new updates users can collaboration in “real time” on documents and save changes without emailing back and forth.
Even Dropbox and Google Docs, which were once hailed for their cloud-based collaboration capabilities, do not share documents in the way that SharePoint is capable of doing. While it is true that both Dropbox and Google Docs allow users to access documents from a number of locations, they do not share the same type of “real-time” collaboration capabilities that are evidenced in SharePoint.
Would you be surprised to learn that in a recent Microsoft class, most of the students had no answer for the question, “What is SharePoint?” Actually, most people learn about the benefits of SharePoint when they encounter it at work after someone else has chosen to implement this useful Microsoft platform, either in its online … Read More
Microsoft SharePoint is not only a program that offers convenient document storage in a cloud base. This incredible program also offers one of the newest and most interesting forms of communication available for a data sharing program: social communication. What Does Social Communication Mean? In the past, workers communicated by email or other methods that … Read More
Microsoft has made it clear: Yammer will be the social collaboration vehicle for SharePoint from now on. According to a recent report, Office 365 is the first program to benefit from Yammer, but SharePoint is not far behind. Future service packs will feature out-of-the-box social collaboration through Yammer. However, there has been concern that Microsoft … Read More
The SharePoint Conference 2014 in March announced some exciting changes to OneDrive for Business in Office 365, part of the entire SharePoint experience. Those changes are beginning to take shape now, and innovations such as Simple Controls, Site Folders, Smarter Search, and more have users buzzing. Most of these changes are designed to make common … Read More
SharePoint adds value to any business, but it is important for business owners to understand the benefits they get from SharePoint in order to fully appreciate what the program can do for their companies. Here are some immediate benefits you will gain when you start using SharePoint to organize your business’s work and data. Save … Read More
SharePoint, Microsoft’s online sharing platform, has a variety of options to make this program useful for everyone. The various facets of SharePoint make the program customizable to almost any business need for companies of any size, no matter how many employees are involved. Here is a look at the various aspects of SharePoint and the … Read More
