In our blog about SharePoint last week, we quoted the statistic that 71% of workers in big organisations “ask around” in order to find experts in their own companies.

But if you rely on asking colleagues to find an internal expert for a project,  how can you be sure that your colleagues will be able to recommend someone who has the specific expertise, experience or skill sets you need? And if you work for a large organisation, how can you find out what kind of internal talent and expertise exists in your company?

One of the key benefits of implementing Microsoft SharePoint in your organisation is that it has powerful enterprise search functionality that makes it easy to locate internal experts and specialist resources.

Using SharePoint’s advanced people search capabilities, you can quickly and accurately search an enterprise-wide repository by department, job title, expertise, social distance and even common interests, and find collaborators and project partners with the specific experience and skill sets you need.

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Last week, we discussed how you can substantially reduce the amount of time employees need to spend on data searches by implementing Microsoft SharePoint Portal.

But exactly how does SharePoint make it easy for employees to find business-critical information and documents?

Over the last few years, many organisations have built up a huge volume of multimedia content, including word documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages and Web pages. But more often than not, this content is unstructured and exists, in the words of Microsoft.com “in a state of unmanaged chaos,” which makes it hard for employees to find the business-critical documents and data they need to work efficiently and productively.

The enterprise content management features that are included in the SharePoint Portal Server pull this diverse range of content into a single, centrally-managed repository that has consistent categorization and is easy to navigate, allowing employees to quickly and easily search for, and find, all the critical business documents and data they need.

To find out more and to discuss how Systems Valley can expertly implement Microsoft SharePoint Portal in your organisation, call us on: 0800 33 456 30.

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It takes employees in big companies an average of almost 40 minutes just to find a single business document, a survey  has shown. Conducted by Recommind, a provider of Information Risk Management software, the survey found that workers in companies with more than 10,000 employees spend an average of 38 minutes on each document search.

The survey also found that many big companies do not have efficient systems in place that allow employees to quickly and easily find internal experts. Only 9% of the companies surveyed had an automated system in place for locating experts, with 71% of workers in the surveyed companies saying they needed to “ask around” to find experts in the company.

But although only large companies were interviewed for the survey, locating data and documents is a time-consuming activity in companies of all sizes. In fact, it’s been estimated that the average employee can spend up to 30 % of their day just searching for data and information.

An astute way that companies can substantially reduce the amount of time it takes employees to find information, however, is to implement Microsoft SharePoint.

By creating a single, collaborative workspace where employees can view and share business-critical ideas and information and collaborate across boundaries, SharePoint makes it easy for staff to find documents and locate internal experts.

As SharePoint specialists, Systems Valley can smoothly and seamlessly install SharePoint in your organisation and can configure and customise it so that it matches the unique way your business operates and the way your employees work.

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