Office Automation In today’s work environment, collaboration applications are a critical part of the day to day activities. Being able to share information in an organized way is important to ensure a successful and productive work environment. Many applications are available that can help a corporation with communication and information sharing. Microsoft SharePoint is one of the leading products on the market today that help organization’s employees with successful collaboration.

Describing the Environment
Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise server application that is mainly used for collaboration by employees across a corporation. This application can easily be access via a web interface and is very user friendly. Microsoft SharePoint is fully integrated with Active Directory making it easier to setup users and access control. The application can be used across the LANs (Local Area Network) as well as across the WAN (Wide Area Network) without affecting too much the network bandwidth. It comes in two different versions and depending on the business needs, corporations can either install standard or enterprise. It has many different uses including project management and collaboration.

Describing How is Used
SharePoint can be setup and managed by sites. Users can be granted access to one or more sites depending on their need. Each site can be customized with different colors, backgrounds and pictures. Each site is also composed of a group of applications that are used to manage it. These include calendar, task list, knowledge base, wiki and others. You can use the calendar to mark important dates and share team information for example, time off. The knowledge base can save useful information for future reference. The format of the knowledge base allows users to be creative as to how they want to use it for and what type of documentation they want to keep