Project Management

Extending SharePoint

Will Kelly
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Microsoft SharePoint is the standard collaboration platform in many organizations, and a growing number of third-party applications help to extend its core features into a more powerful project management solution. Here’s a look at four such tools.

 
Microsoft SharePoint is the standard document collaboration platform in many organizations with many teams using it to centralize project collaboration and communications. You can also extend SharePoint into a powerful project management platform through use of third-party applications that publish data to your site and through web parts, applications that “snap in” to a SharePoint site.
 
Extending Microsoft SharePoint into a project management platform takes advantage of native SharePoint features including document libraries, workspaces, task lists and dashboards. Some of these applications also offer integration with Microsoft Project and Outlook, which makes SharePoint an efficient communications conduit and central repository for project management information.
 
The level of adoption of SharePoint is all over the map. To get the most out of third-party applications that augment its functionality, teams need make SharePoint part of their project management workflow if it isn’t already. This may include garnering the necessary access rights to use the applications on your SharePoint …

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