SharePoint - The New Enterprise Strategy

SharePoint is a Web application platform developed by Microsoft which exploits various distinct features of Microsoft Web Technologies integrating multiple facilities into a shared platform providing secure solutions developing a customizable platform to manage content and websites, collaborate with colleagues and partners and unleash the powers of Business Intelligence in day to day work in an enterprise. SharePoint also integrates directly into IIS and Cloud Hosting Services.

SharePoint is completely customizable and when configured intelligently, integrates the business processes and automates workflow of the enterprise.

SharePoint Manages….

Community:

• An intranet where all the employees of the organization can meaningfully connect.
• Sharing of schedules, news and declarations on a common dashboards.
• Dashboards are customizable according to departments and hierarchies.
• Availability of project statuses, employee records and Business Partner positions.
• Employee networking platform providing a community feeling.
• A virtual coffee room which employees attend throughout the workday.

Content:

• A shared space to store documents, files and other content in a common space.
• Accessibility rights according to role definition.
• Speed of sharing and hence efficiency increases by avoiding emails or file transfers.
• Version Control and Track Changes implemented automatically for simultaneous updates.
• Automated archive management.

Collaboration:

• Co-ordination of efforts of colleagues in the same or different locations.
• Sign in from mobile devices or desktops to information needed for work.
• Virtual office spread over various areas.

Extranet:

•  Sharing of information with business partners.
•  Setting up access controls in accordance with partner profile.
•  Download of partner information.

Websites:

• Website Content Management can be activated to manage website pages of active sites.
• Used to add new pages or change text, graphic, sound or any other component of existing pages.

Business Intelligence:

• Business data can be translated to relevant and meaningful information by comprehensive access.
• Analysis of files can be done automatically to establish patterns.
• Pictorial analysis using graphs and charts of trends, patterns and relationships can be achieved.
• Dashboards to display snapshot of business data.
• Mashups created using meaningful combination the internal data.

SPEC INDIA has 27 years of experience in desktop application development, Web application development, Mobile application development and Enterprise mobility solutions implementation and deployment for clients spread across over 20+ countries using varied technologies. Both, Windows based and Web based applications development practices are rolled out by implementing quick, accurate and cost effective business solutions at SPEC with Microsoft technologies for the Business Intelligence ,Web, Mobiles, Tablets , and  Cross Platform Applications , using HTML 5, ASP.Net MVC, Responsive design tools and SharePoint based tools. Integrating of modern day techniques of SharePoint and its APIs into the apps and solutions developed, puts the solutions developed by SPEC into a completely new perspective.

URL Shortening for Sharepoint 2010

URL shortening is a technique reportedly done to support the SEO activities of a website. With this, the URLs of all the pages of the website are made shorter creatively and up to a maximum extent and still direct to the required page.

In order to make a long Sharepoint URL short, firstly copy the URL to the clipboard, got to a URL shortener, past the long link over there and copy the short URL you get in return back to the clipboard. It works good, but there are quite some non-regular steps in Sharepoint to go through.

Thus, in the Documents Tab, of every Document Library, a new item is added to the Share and Track group.  The result however looks as below:

Thus, this trick will definitely support the Sharepoint  and the ASP.NET developers to shorten the URLs of the pages and thus help the related SEO activities of the websites. Naturally, the more short and SEO related the URLs are, the more the incoming traffic is going to be.

Happy ASP.NET Programming!