SharePoint 2013 - The New Way to Work Together

According to Microsoft - SharePoint 2013 is the new way to work together. SharePoint 2013 is the next version of SharePoint that includes simplified user experience helping users to organize, sync, and share all their content. Also, new social capabilities are being integrated that makes easier for users to share their ideas and keep a continuous track of colleagues on-going work.

SharePoint is a powerful and rapidly growing platform and the newly launched 2013 version brings many beneficial features for the enterprises. It also introduces the new modes of sharing work with others, organizing projects as well as large teams, and discovering information and insights.

1] Share

With SharePoint 2013, users can share now their stuff or update their activity feed with people inside the organization or even people from outside. They can now publish their content from any Microsoft Office application easily.

2] Organize

Now with SharePoint 2013 users can -

- Organize all their tasks and projects for getting visibility into upcoming deliverables across SharePoint, Outlook and Microsoft Project.

- Bring together all the emails, documents and team members at one single place.

- Sync their content in SharePoint to their desktop with SkyDrive Pro, so as to access docs even in offline mode.

3] Discover

Users can now connect with other people present in an organization and discover their interests, projects and documents. Moreover, now users can create reports using Excel sheet and publish them easily to SharePoint to share statistical data with others.

4] Build

With new Cloud App Model of SharePoint it is now possible to build apps on common web technologies like HTML or JavaScript.

- Users can publish their app and make it available for everyone to try or purchase via Public Store.

- Users can build dynamic intranet and internet websites to share their organization's insight with everyone.

5] Manage

With SharePoint 2013, the management of costs, risks and time has become easier. By running SharePoint in the cloud with Office 365 the infrastructure costs can be reduced. This will also help users to spend more time in quality maintenance, performance and innovation as there will be no load of managing infrastructure.

With this release, keeping up-to-date with all the activities of colleagues in SharePoint has become simpler as it was never before. Microsoft has tried its best to bring improved user-experience with SharePoint 2013 along with making much easier for administrators to deal smoothly with complex and long programs.