Top Microsoft SharePoint Features That Make It Ideal For Construction Project Management

By: Mrunal Chokshi

The market is currently brimming with high quality options when it comes to project management information systems — a crucial part of operations in any construction firm. And despite the availability of a plethora of options, nothing even comes close to helping companies in this industry quite like Microsoft SharePoint does. A browser-based collaboration as well as data/document management solution, Microsoft SharePoint helps construction firms link their business resources and employees together. This offering from the tech giant also helps people in the organization to work together and sync routine business responsibilities and chore from a consolidated platform.

So, if you too are looking for an able solution to address your construction project management concerns, allow us to tell you why SharePoint is exactly what you are looking for.

1. Abundance of features: Microsoft has loaded SharePoint with every imaginable project management tool a construction firm might need for different projects. The list includes a vigorous search feature to help users to easily and swiftly find what they need. SharePoint also allows work groups to build their own internal websites within the platform to stock and arrange their files and also display relevant announcements. Furthermore, it enables firms to gather information from databases and reports in order to get a bird’s eye view of compliance and usage statistics. And, with SharePoint, documents, processes, and data, are integrated to build no-code automations as well as business offerings.

2. Security: Construction firms generally use groups to support scalable security environment since permissions are implemented across the entire group instead of individuals in the group. This means calibrating permissions, the firm has to make only one change to a group, instead of repeating the process of every member in the group. Furthermore, SharePoint also offers the ability to specify security permissions from a site collection, to an individual site, to the lowest part of an individual document or item.

3. Third party services integration: Microsoft Flow, integrated with SharePoint, enables organizations to effortlessly connect and automate services that are crucial to their business operations. It gets code-free integrations with myriad third-party services, including Zendesk, Salesforce, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft Dynamics, and OneDrive among others.

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