SharePoint 2013 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Business Collaboration Platform, Fourth Edition

Introduction

SharePoint 2013 is Microsoft’s business collaboration platform. It offers web management, content management, reporting, search, and social capabilities that can be brought together to yield comprehensive business solutions. The solutions this platform allows can be created more quickly and are more cost effective than custom-developed solutions, and what is more, the platform provides a far greater degree of flexibility than packaged solutions can.

That said, in many situations where SharePoint is introduced, people struggle to understand and use the platform. In other situations people have difficulty expanding their use of SharePoint from a basic intranet or document management environment to a business solution platform. This ...