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Go Green – Green Benefits of Content Management
SharePoint offers so many opportunities to go Green, Top six ways to go Green with SharePoint:
1. Save money on paper – and reduce your environmental footprint at the same time.
2. Increase the effectiveness of core processes.
Think about the benefits of SharePoint technologies in just a single core process – finance. Driving paper from financial processes allows an accounts payable group to pay invoices faster, taking advantage of discounts for early payment. It allows an accounts receivable group to improve cash flows and reduce the number of days that sales are outstanding. The cost of processing an invoice can typically be cut by a factor of 10, creating savings that drop directly to the bottom line. These kinds of savings can usually be replicated in other paper intensive processes, yielding BOTH bottom line AND Green benefits.
3. Truly integrate your field operations.
The application of distributed capture technologies – using a scanner in a field office to process locally created paper and electronically store it in a central location within SharePoint. These scanned documents can be accessed from any location over the internet for immediate review. Distributed capture solutions often pay for themselves just through savings in courier and shipping costs. But taking courier and overnight services off the road also translates into significant direct environmental benefits.
4. By using SharePoint we can reduce real estate costs. Less paper means fewer filing cabinets means less real estate – which reduces cost, but also significantly reduces your environmental footprint.
5. SharePoint helps in improving employee productivity.
As a content management tool, SharePoint proves to be the best in the industry for the following:
Collaboration Portal Enterprise Search Enterprise Content Management Forms Driven Business Process Business Intelligence
6. Reduce off-site storage costs. Off-site storage of paper is expensive, often requiring rental and maintenance fees as well as significant transportation costs to the facility. SharePoint provides a SaaS option for hosting the portlet
