BlueFire delivers the entire infrastructure required to run Microsoft SharePoint so you no longer need to worry about hardware, licences, set-up, monitoring, or maintenance. Simply sign up and start enjoying Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) anytime, anywhere on your PC or mobile devices.

Microsoft SharePoint technology provides enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, and enabling better informed decisions.

Organisations can enable their users to create, manage, and easily build their own SharePoint sites, and enable these sites to be discovered throughout the organisation

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a versatile technology that organisations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organisational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need..

Get a Microsoft SharePoint website in minutes for file storage, online photo albums, a wiki, an intranet site, a web-based document management space and more. Windows SharePoint Server (WSS v3) provides a shared workplace community for project management, knowledge management, whatever you need.

Shared Workspace Community

SharePoint sites provide places to capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents. The sites facilitate team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration, and surveys. Site content is accessible from both a web browser and through clients that support Web Services. The document collaboration features allow for easy check in, check out, and document version control.

Easy Management

SharePoint site managers can customise the content and layout of sites to ensure that site members can access and work with important and relevant information. Members' participation can also be monitored and moderated when necessary. Security and task responsibilities are both flexible and easily accessible.

Collaboration

Alerts - One of the most difficult obstacles encountered in the business world is knowing when information changes. SharePoint can help with this problem by enabling you to subscribe to the alert feature which will let you know whenever there are changes made to documents, calendar and other part of the site.

Tasks Manager - Create lists to assign tasks to team members. You can specify priority and due date, and indicate its status and progress. Users can view their individual tasks or view all team members.

Announcements - Keep everyone informed 24x7. Use an announcements list to post news, status, and other short bits of information you want to share with team members. With the SharePoint Announcement feature you can immediately send updates and information to everybody involved with a certain project within SharePoint. You can set an expiration date for an announcement.

Emails - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 allows list managers to assign an email address to some of the out-of-the-box lists. Moreover, you can choose to send an email to discussion boards, calendars, announcements and SharePoint contacts. This way everybody can easily stay up-to-date and react accordingly if needed.

Discussions Boards - provide a forum for conversing about topics that interest your team. For example, you could create a discussion board for team members to propose and discuss team activities. Each discussion board appears on a page that includes buttons for starting new discussions, sorting and filtering discussions, switching to a different view of the discussion board, and changing the design of the discussion board.

Calendars - Managing projects is an important job. It involves detailed planning, timely execution of tasks, and team collaboration. Whatever the length or complexity of your project, sharing plans in a format that others can view, contribute to, and count on can save you a lot of trouble. The calendar feature in SharePoint is a great tool to keep track of everything while allowing multiple users to access it from anywhere.

Mobile - A Meeting Workspace site is a website for centralising all the information and materials for one or more meetings. Before the meeting, use a workspace site to publish the agenda, attendees list, and documents you plan to discuss. During or after the meeting, use the workspace site to publish the meeting results and track tasks. Use meeting requests to invite people to the meeting. In the meeting request, include a hyperlink that goes to the workspace site where invitees can learn the details and see the materials.

Meeting Spaces - A Meeting Workspace site is a Web site for centralizing all the information and materials for one or more meetings. Before the meeting, use a workspace site to publish the agenda, attendees list, and documents you plan to discuss. During or after the meeting, use the workspace site to publish the meeting results and track tasks. Use meeting requests to invite people to the meeting. In the meeting request, include a hyperlink that goes to the workspace site where invitees can learn the details and see the materials.

Contacts - The Contacts feature is used to communicate with the people with whom you work. You can enter names and contact information (such as telephone number, e-mail address, and street address) so that everyone on your team can use this information. You can copy contact information from your address book to a contacts list (requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible address book program, such as Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later), and you can copy or link contacts from a contacts list to your address book.

BlueFire's hosted Windows SharePoint Services comes with all the features you need for collaboration within a business or organisation. Our easy-to-us Cortex Control Panel provides secure administration capabilities, allowing you to quickly add and remove users, change permissions, and manage other important account and SharePoint site settings easily.

Integrates with Microsoft Office

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is a versatile technology with tools for collaboration and seamless Microsoft Office integration that help people stay connected across organisational and geographic boundaries.

Seamless Synchronisation with Outlook

SharePoint synchronises with Microsoft Outlook to allow more effective coordination of your personal and team activities. By synchronising your WSS tasks, calendar, contacts, and discussion boards with Microsoft Outlook, you can keep track of all of your team’s projects and information through a single interface.

Easy Sharing & Secure Collaboration

SharePoint lets you communicate securely, share documents easily and collaborate effectively. No more e-mail attachments - Easily upload photos online, view slideshows, leave comments, create picture libraries to organise and backup all your important photos.

Easy Management

Easy-to-use self manage Cortex Control Panel provides your administrator and your end users with an easy-to-use interface to effortlessly make important changes to your account.

All hardware and software support

BlueFire provides all the hardware, software and user licences that you need for a full SharePoint configuration.

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