Effective communication among work teams can help save time and significantly increase productivity.
Microsoft Small Business Server gives your employees a single place to share information like research and reports and seamlessly collaborate on projects. SharePoint provides you with shared document libraries, announcements, events and links and can be easily customised using Microsoft Frontpage.
SharePoint lets you keep all the documents about a project in a single location. Regardless of who or how many people are working on it, a single copy is available to everyone. You don't have to worry about 'copy to the server'; simply mailing documents to others will automatically create an online copy that is automatically maintained as others make modifications.
Since you may have several documents being worked on at once, SharePoint will save you the trouble of checking them all to see if more work has been done on them by notifying you when a group of documents or lists has been changed.
Aside from project documents, your document library can also be used to house information that needs to be centrally maintained, such as Health and Safety procedures. Since SharePoint also has a survey function, when the procedures are updated you can use this to get people to acknowledge that they have read and understood the new processes.
SharePoint includes a holiday calendar that lets your staff book holidays and see who else has already booked time off. This should stop the need to worry if you have cover for a particular member of staff, as they would see when they came to book if someone else had already booked leave.
Sometimes all you want is a simple list that everyone can update and view, like a list of customers or prices. SharePoint's list function facilitates this need. If you use Excel, you can even analyse the information in the lists within Excel to better understand your business.
