SharePoint

SharePoint is a tool for collaboration that helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. For example, SharePoint can help you:

• Coordinate projects, calendars, and schedules.
• Discuss ideas and review documents or proposals.
• Share information and keep in touch with other people.

SharePoint sites are dynamic and interactive -- members of the site can contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment on or contribute to other people's sites. Some common uses of SharePoint include:

• Document Management
• Building Collaborative Environments (i.e. team sites)
• Improving productivity
• and much more

The goal of this project is to create SharePoint as a shared service across the University of Illinois. The project will create the test and production environments, define a governance structure, migrate existing sites to the new architecture, and promote the service.

The implementation of SharePoint as a shared service for all campuses will create better efficiencies for business processes. The service can be used in conjunction with Unified Communications to improve and enhance collaboration among and between campuses and University Administration. The use of SharePoint as an enterprise tool will also result in cost savings by eliminating the need for departments to provide their own SharePoint service. 

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