Overview of SharePoint
SharePoint is the successful foundation of Microsoft’s website-based platform that expedites and fast tracks business processes and teamwork by offering an integrated platform for communication and collaboration.
SharePoint is a flexible, reliable, scalable, secure, modern, intelligent, intuitive, collaborative, and communicative platform that has drastically improved the productivity of the teams that use the platform.
It also brings the capability to people and organizations to share and work together, stay informed and engaged, and supports organizations to transform their business processes and can be used on all devices.
SharePoint Deployment Options
SharePoint is a collaboration platform that is designed to fit the requirements of any organization irrespective of the size of the organization and the place and time to work.
Please find the SharePoint deployment options below
SharePoint on-premises
SharePoint Online with Microsoft Office 365
SharePoint Hybrid
On-premises Deployment
Several sectors from government organizations, finance companies, healthcare, production, and manufacturing organizations generally deal with sensitive data that cannot be stored elsewhere except on-premises. These organizations can easily customize SharePoint and maintain their own governance policies for accessing the platform for information, internally and externally, and extracting project reports.
Online Deployment
The organizations going for SharePoint online have to buy a license to use SharePoint Online. Microsoft takes care of the necessary infrastructure in its data centres and applies patches regularly. The company also ensures latency reduction, high network bandwidth, disaster recovery capability with industry compliance standards and Active Directory for authentication.
Hybrid Deployment
With the hybrid deployment option, your organization can benefit from the features of both SharePoint On-Premises and SharePoint Online. The authentication for the deployment can be on the Active directory on-premises or Active directory online based on your preference and usage. Organizations are required to follow the compliance rules based on regulatory authorities of various countries.
SharePoint Pricing
SharePoint Online can be licensed per user and your organization will be charged for the same. Organizations can choose a standalone solution or combine it with Office 365. The pricing is as low as $5 per user per month.
SharePoint Licensing
The Intranet sites for your organization are licensed using a Server/CAL (Client Access License) model.
SharePoint Standard CAL: for the core capabilities of SharePoint.
SharePoint Enterprise CAL: for the enterprise-level, full capabilities of SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint Online is available as a standalone platform but can also be coupled with Microsoft Office 365. It comes with two plans depending on the requirement of your organization.
Plans 1 and 2
The first one starts from $5 per user per month and the second one starts from $10 per user per month.
Please find the pricing for Office 365 Enterprise below:
E1: $8 per user per month.
E3: $10 per user per month.
E5: $35 per user per month.
If you are managing a business then it is your task to ensure that your company operations are going smoothly. Through SharePoint implementation, you can improve the integration capabilities, process integration, and workflow automation of your business. This helps you to empower your team with productive and dynamic sites for each project by allowing them to share files, news, data, and resources in an instant. Customize your website and start to streamline your team’s work now!
