Much of your internal information, such as benefits information and company news, is out of date, paper-based, or not easily distributed to employees.
	Employees find it difficult to find and use internal business services such as expense reporting, supply ordering, and technical support.
	Finding information is difficult and time consuming for employees—finding a document requires knowing where it was last saved or asking the author for its location.
	Employees share and review documents by sending them in e-mail messages or leaving them on file servers, resulting in disorganized file systems and headaches for your system administrator.
	There is no standard process for managing and reviewing documents, no means of tracking the versions of a document, and no standard way of controlling who has access rights to a document.
	Employees find it difficult to publish new documents to their work team, their department, the entire company, or clients and partners.
	Team members in different departments, offices, locations, and time zones find it difficult to collaborate, and have to rely on e-mail, file servers, and paper documents to keep track of projects.
	Teams of employees have no centralized workspace where they can collaborate on key documents, track tasks and deliverables, or maintain shared lists of team information.

The Solution

Windows SharePoint Services allow you to put the Web to work within your company—to increase your employee productivity and business efficiency while lowering your costs. The intuitive document management system will improve your company-wide information management practices while allowing users to work within a familiar Web browser and Microsoft Office applications they are accustomed to. A return on investment for SharePoint includes:

Better informed and more productive employees More efficient access to internal business services and systems Better management of company information assets Less employee time wasted looking for important information

Better team coordination More predictable project and task tracking Reduced costs for paper, travel, and communications Improved client, partner, and customer service