SharePoint CMS
Put Your Digital Content in Order
ScienceSoft will implement a CMS powered by SharePoint to enable convenient and secure management of the whole life cycle of your content and digital assets, fully compliant with your internal policies, government or industry-specific regulations if any apply.
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SharePoint Content Management System in Brief
Microsoft was recognized as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms in 2021 for the fifth consecutive year.
Microsoft's SharePoint is used as CMS, DMS, or intranet by 250,000+ companies worldwide. Today, SharePoint CMS is widely employed for enterprise content management (ECM) due to its out-of-the-box integration with Office 365 productivity and collaboration tools, support of multi-type, multi-format and multi-language content, rich document management capabilities, including real-time collaboration on documents, and strong data security features.
SharePoint as CMS: Key Functionality
As a content management system, SharePoint helps organize and manage corporate documents, records, media assets and web content throughout their lifecycle, from creating to archiving.
Document management
Centralized document repository
Storing documents in various formats, from common ones (.docx, .pdf, .pptx, .zip) to rare file extensions like .odt, .ods, .xlsb, and .ppsx.
Indexing and metadata
Tagging documents based on their content and filled-in metadata (e.g., a document’s title, author, type, modification date) to facilitate their categorizing, archiving, search and retrieval.
Document IDs
Unique identifiers to differentiate each document in SharePoint CMS.
Enterprise search
Search by name, metadata and full document text across SharePoint CMS and integrated systems (e.g., ERP, CRM, intranet). Filtering and ranking of search results.
Document categorization
Assigning shared settings for specific types of documents, such as contracts, presentations, manuals, process maps, and specifications.
Document workflows
Creating, tracking, and collaborating on document-related processes (e.g., routing of documents to collect approvals, feedback or signatures) directly from Office applications.
Document templates
Reusable templates for fast and easy creation of typical documents like letters, contracts, policies, invoices, etc.
Alerts and notifications
Automated sending of notifications (e.g., creation of a new document, update of a document, end of an approval workflow) and alerts (e.g., document approval deadlines, a contract’s expiration) to relevant users.
Real-time collaboration on documents
Editing a document by several users simultaneously.
Media asset management
Media asset libraries
Centralized storage for images, audio and video files based on their metadata and unique IDs
Media content categorization
Media content types offering more metadata features than standard document libraries.
Thumbnail views
Thumbnail views enable quick browsing of images, audio and video files.
Metadata extraction
Automatic extraction of metadata for typical image formats (e.g., BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF).
Pop-ups
Playing videos right from a document folder.
Built-in media players
Playing video and audio files from various sources, e.g., intranets, portals, publishing sites, team sites.
Records management
Centralized records repository
Structured and secure storing of records that serve as evidence of business activities, transactions and obligations.
Retention and deletion policies
- Automated retention of a file copy if the file is edited or deleted.
- Automated file deletion after a specified period depending on a company’s internal policies, relevant government or industry-specific compliance regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOX).
eDiscovery
Identification and delivery of electronic information that can be used as legal evidence. eDiscovery offers:
- Content search for documents, websites, email messages across laptops, email servers, file servers, and other sources.
- Creating and placing holds on content items to prevent data loss.
- Exporting of content search results (e.g., downloading to a PC).
- Tracking the status of the content under holds and the exported content.
Web content management
Templates
Reusable templates for quick and easy creation and publishing of web content (e.g., news, policies, surveys).
Page layouts
Reusable page layouts help maintain branding and navigation consistency throughout the SharePoint environment.
Multi-site and multi-language support
Support of 51 languages and automated translation of web content.
Web content editor
A drag-and-drop content authoring tool (editor) to easily add relevant text, images and links to the structural units of the web page.
Content management workflows
Automated workflows on content approval and publishing, including complex workflows (e.g., non-linear, multistep).
Mobility
Accessibility of SharePoint CMS on mobile devices.
Security and compliance
Data encryption
- Two-level encryption of data at rest: disk-level BitLocker data encryption and file-level encryption with a unique key for each file.
- Data in transit is protected due to SSL/TLS connection.
Access control
Permission-based CMS access to protect sensitive content from unauthorized viewing, modifying, and deletion at any level - from a document to the whole site.
Two-factor authentication
Combination of a password and a code from an email or a text message to enter SharePoint CMS.
Versioning
Storing document versions to prevent accidental deletion or unwanted changes in content.
Audit trail
Tracking various types of user activity with SharePoint CMS: access time, a user who opens, modifies, downloads, emails or prints out a CMS file.
Compliance
- Compliance with the majority of government and industry-specific regulations (e.g., GDPR, GLBA, SOX, HIPAA, PCI DSS).
- Compliance with technical standards (e.g., WCAG 2).
Useful Integrations for SharePoint CMS
SharePoint CMS integrations facilitate the creation of business-specific content (e.g., customer presentations, product descriptions, media materials for a marketing campaign) and ensure content consistency across the enterprise.
- Intranet - to deliver diverse content to a company’s intranet (homepage, team sites, department sites, information pages, etc.), regularly update this content, make it easily searchable, and more.
- CRM - to route personalized content created in SharePoint CMS (e.g., newsfeeds and offerings with personal recommendations and loyal programs) to relevant recipients.
- Ecommerce solution - to publish content about products, structurally organize it, and make it searchable on your site.
- Marketing automation software - to deliver marketing materials and drive marketing campaigns across email, website, social channels, and more.
- Social media - to publish corporate content (news, announcements, publications, etc.) directly on social media.
SharePoint CMS Customization Capabilities
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Custom content life cycle workflows (e.g., complex non-linear content approval, publishing) |
Enhanced security (e.g., AI-based security capabilities) |
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ScienceSoft as a Reliable SharePoint CMS Implementation Partner
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With 12 years in CMS development and 16-year experience in SharePoint, ScienceSoft delivers SharePoint CMS solutions that ensure efficient and cost-effective content management. |
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What our Customers say
Sultan Masad
Group IT Manager
We partnered up with ScienceSoft for building a SharePoint document management system to streamline document storing, search, approval, and archiving. One of our core requirements was DMS user-friendliness. To meet this requirement, ScienceSoft’s team implemented custom look and feel features. The DMS developed by ScienceSoft helped us ensure document integrity and security and accelerate document-related business processes.
To streamline our document management, ScienceSoft created two workflows: the first one checked duplicate file names across the site and sent documents for approval, and the second one triggered weekly reminders for approvers with a list of documents awaiting approval. The project took 6 weeks. We really appreciate the team’s responsiveness and patience with our questions and concerns.
Moin uddin Mohammed
Group IT Manager & ERP Consultant
We commissioned ScienceSoft to implement a document management system based on SharePoint Online. Under the project, ScienceSoft’s team developed custom document approval workflows that provided automated protection of a document from modification after approval. Thus, the developed DMS solution helped us accelerate document-driven business processes and ensure data security and integrity.
SharePoint Content Management Use Cases
With SharePoint CMS, you can easily create and manage diverse content for intranets, extranets and portals.
Document management portal
HR portal
Knowledge management portal
Benefits of Content Management in SharePoint
SharePoint Online Pricing Plans
