SharePoint for Document Management

Managing documents is a key task for any office. Your customers need tools for document sharing, archiving, organisation, versioning, collaborative authoring, protecting confidential documents, backing up anything important, and maintaining an approval process for critical documents such as project proposals or quotations. The traditional small business solution is shared folders on a server, supplemented by the common habit of circulating documents in email attachments. It works after a fashion, but it is a crude approach that can easily become unmanageable. There is also the problem of dealing with the paper documents that flow in and round the organisation and integrating these with electronic documents.

Microsoft SharePoint supports your organisation document management needs by providing a broad set of document management capabilities that enable you to do the following:

•    Store, organize, and locate documents.
•    Ensure the consistency of documents.
•    Manage metadata for documents.
•    Help protect documents from unauthorized access or use.
•    Ensure consistent business processes (workflows) for how documents are handled.