SharePoint Development Company

SharePoint Development FAQs

• What is SharePoint?

  SharePoint is a web-based collaboration platform developed by Microsoft to make collaboration and document management easier within the team. It allows users to access, share and collaborate in a secure environment. With SharePoint development services, you can create an Intranet for internal employees and automate the workflows. SharePoint sites can also be hosted through the cloud using SharePoint Online or through an on-premise SharePoint server.

• Why is SharePoint used?

  Microsoft SharePoint can be used for different purposes like document management, knowledge management, content management, custom add-ins development, team collaboration, public-facing websites creation, streamlining business processes, information searching and custom workflows to increase productivity.

• What is the difference between Office 365 and on premise SharePoint Server?

  Office 365 is a cloud-hosted collaborative platform that can be used along with other Office 365 services like Power BI, Microsoft Team, Power Automate, MS Stream, and other services. On-premise SharePoint Server can be hosted on the internet or Intranet. Locally hosted SharePoint Server supports a higher level of customization, provides high performance and better security of documents & data, improves usability, and integrates other enterprise systems. Also, one can have a public-facing website using the SharePoint server.

• What are the features of SharePoint Server for the Intranet?

  Apart from document management and CMS, there are many other features of SharePoint Server which users can take advantage of for SharePoint project development. Some of which includes:

  • Intranet based Applications and Business Process Automation
  • Department wise Intranet Sites
  • Role wise Security and Access
  • Branding and Design
  • Business Intelligence
  • Seamless Integration with Enterprise Systems
  • Custom Workflows Development

• Which browsers are supported by SharePoint?

  Current SharePoint supports the latest versions of all the browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

• What are the points to be considered while implementing SharePoint as a document management system?

  For any document management system, first and foremost, architecture design should be scalable and efficient for future expansion. Apart from this, metadata management, document workflow setup, permission levels and search configuration are some of the considerations that can also make a difference.

• What are the security features of SharePoint?

  SharePoint is an enterprise product and it is very secure. Administrators can set user level permissions in SharePoint for authentication. Apart from that, SharePoint also allows users to set content level permissions.

• Do you sign an NDA?

  Yes. As a SharePoint development company, we sign NDA to typically avoid disclosing any confidential information of clients or projects with our association. This prevents both the parties to take any malicious step against the data conceived.

• What about data privacy and security?

  We are GDPR compliant development company and take utmost care of data privacy and security by encryption, multi-factor authentication and strict permissions.

• Is SharePoint going away?

  No, SharePoint is not going anywhere. In fact, more than 50 percent of the organizations are still operating a major portion of their business using SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server. Many healthcare companies prefer to trust SharePoint for their enterprise growth due to its secure data transmission and collaboration.