Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organisations work together to realise shared goals. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social with a decentralised group. Teams that work collaboratively can generally obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources.

 

SharePoint Online is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Internet. When people need to work with others, with content and information or line-of-business data, they can use the rich, out-of-the-box set of integrated capabilities in SharePoint Online. People can customise these capabilities to address specific business needs and integrate them with other products and solutions. Using the same set of capabilities and tools, companies can deploy SharePoint Online both inside the enterprise and outside of the firewall so employees, customers and business partners can collaboratively work with the platform.

 

 

Powered by SharePoint Online, Office 365 enables you to access and share documents and insights, contacts, calendars, and tasks in a single location and from a shared computer or smartphone. You can share files and documents, both inside and outside your organisation with a password protected website, or you can open and save files stored on SharePoint directly from Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as accessing documents in SharePoint from your mobile device.

 

 

Collaboration is a key feature of SharePoint Online; providing organisations with the tools to increase employee productivity and maximise its intellectual property.

The SharePoint 2010 Self Service Collaboration offering provides users with easy access to SharePoint 2010's powerful collaboration features – allowing end users to build new collaboration sites via a provisioning workflow wizard that can be configured for each client’s needs.  A common challenge facing organisations seeking to implement collaboration tools is understanding the requirements. The SharePoint 2010 Self Service Collaboration service helps by providing standard collaboration service options and templates, which can be extended or tailored as required.  Finally, ICS Solutions implementation methodology provides a framework to assist in the discovery and implementation of collaboration capability, suited to both the user and the business.