How Using SharePoint for Document Management Enhances Productivity

Ryan Williamson
3 min readNov 1, 2019

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No matter the industry one may take up, the fact remains that businesses today have a wide range of challenges that they must contend with. And while each of these challenges is important, some are undeniably more important than others. Take document management; for example, the scope of managing documents within an organization has grown so immensely over the years that it is impossible to deal with it with manual tools and resources. For a task as monumental as this, companies are quick to understand that they need capable support to assist them.

SharePoint for Document Management
SharePoint for Document Management

And we don’t have to discuss just how many options the market has to offer for a document management system, because of course it does! The focus is on what is widely celebrated as the créme de la créme among all document management systems out there in the world — SharePoint. What makes it so appreciated in the market, you ask. For starters, it stands to help a business, any business, improve productivity across the board and at a decidedly rapid pace. Suffice it to say that that is not the only benefit SharePoint has to offer to companies. Listed below are some of the best advantages it has to offer.

1. Enhanced productivity: It may come as a surprise to many people, but one of the most prominent benefits of SharePoint is that it helps companies put together substantial resources for employees and their onboarding. It includes building FAQs, making training videos, which ensure that the company isn’t wholly dependent on just HR for training. It also helps make sure the new joiners are easily able to access information they need to settle in and start being productive.

2. Automate your way to glory: Managing intranets knowledge libraries, documents, is not an easy job. SharePoint has a solution for that as well — it is highly amenable to integration with third-party tools and other resources that enable the company to use SharePoint in a much effective manner. Companies can automate as well as ensure security of the creation, management, and retention of documents with SharePoint and other relevant IT tools.

3. Better collaboration: SharePoint brings with it a world of features and functionalities that make it unimaginably easy to collaborate and that too, without a hitch. So, from allowing a document to be edited by multiple users at the same time to version history, there’s much on offer. Then there’s also the fact that SharePoint is integrated with the Microsoft tech stack, which means a vast majority of the staff is already familiar with this tool, making it even easier to use.

SharePoint document management solutions have long been a part of the corporate world, helping countless companies bring into effect completely new levels of productivity, efficiency, and growth. And with the kind of collaboration and automation SharePoint can facilitate across the length and breadth of a business, the company can access and tap into opportunities that were previously either ignored or under-utilized.

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Ryan Williamson
Ryan Williamson

Written by Ryan Williamson

Tech-savvy professional with 13+ years in app development, leveraging expertise to build partnerships, promote Rishabh Software, and enhance brand visibility.

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