{"id":1888,"date":"2018-09-04T19:08:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T06:19:21","slug":"some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi","title":{"rendered":"Some Interesting Tips That Can Boost Your SharePoint ROI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi\/#Improving_the_User_Experience_in_Your_SharePoint_Development_Projects\" title=\"Improving the User Experience in Your SharePoint Development Projects\">Improving the User Experience in Your SharePoint Development Projects<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi\/#Know_What_the_Problems_that_You_are_Solving\" title=\"Know What the Problems that You are Solving:\">Know What the Problems that You are Solving:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi\/#Developers_should_Ask_Questions\" title=\"Developers should Ask Questions:\u00a0\">Developers should Ask Questions:\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi\/#Developers_should_Understand_the_Overall_Design_Process\" title=\"Developers should Understand the Overall Design Process:\">Developers should Understand the Overall Design Process:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi\/#Information_Architecture\" title=\"Information Architecture:\">Information Architecture:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/some-interesting-tips-that-can-boost-your-sharepoint-roi\/#Governance\" title=\"Governance:\">Governance:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Microsoft\u2019s SharePoint is an enterprise level collaboration platform that is used by business owners to easily manage their platforms for a wide range of solutions. Carefully developed intranets can greatly aid the internal collaboration and communication. Though there are few successful businesses that operates without the aid of an intranet, but again success comes with a cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Implementing any <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SharePoint intranet solution<\/span> may involve significant time, resources and effort, but this is worth as it brings good dividends.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Here in this blog, I hope to show you some of the most interesting methods that will help your business to maximize the ROI of the SharePoint application, both before and after implementation.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Proper planning is the prime step of any successful SharePoint application. The key parts of planning often include User experience, information architecture and governance:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Improving_the_User_Experience_in_Your_SharePoint_Development_Projects\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Improving the User Experience in Your SharePoint Development Projects<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Research reports have stated that the unforeseen usability issues make up about a few reasons why the software development crosses the budget. While trying to design in a vacuum, often ends up doing a lot of maintenance work to fix the element that appears to be broken due to usability issues. Doing some UX research often reduces the change of releasing the project with errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">To improve the UX and increase the ROI of the SharePoint development application, you need to:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Know_What_the_Problems_that_You_are_Solving\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Know What the Problems that You are Solving: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Developers often use a lot of time trying to solve the problems that don\u2019t create much problem to the users. There are many users who use the solution only to solve a specific problem, and when they don\u2019t have that problem, the feature is simply useless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">While creating specifications for<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/sharepoint-development\/\"> SharePoint development<\/a><\/span>, the documentation and user scenarios should identify the problems that must be solved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/dedicated-sharepoint-developer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3386 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sharepoint-Developers.jpg\" alt=\"Dedicated SharePoint Developer\" width=\"823\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sharepoint-Developers.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sharepoint-Developers-300x36.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sharepoint-Developers-768x93.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sharepoint-Developers-560x68.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Developers_should_Ask_Questions\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Developers should Ask Questions:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Developers should always feel free to ask various questions related to the design process and see the user profiles as guiding principles. In case the information doesn\u2019t seem to fit, then the project should not be executed unless everything is very clear.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Developers_should_Understand_the_Overall_Design_Process\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Developers should Understand the Overall Design Process<\/strong>:<\/span> <\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It is by giving people a wider perspective of the development project that they can have a clear understanding of where their responsibilities are and the deliverables fit into the wider picture. Developers should understand the objectives of the project and the expectations of the customers to contribute to the success of the overall project.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Information_Architecture\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Information Architecture:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Information architecture often refers to the structure of the website, its security model and also the navigation scheme. Taxonomy is one aspect of the information architecture and SharePoint taxonomy is the structure underlying intranet sites. It determines how the information on the site is labelled and how the information is discovered from the internal searches.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 40px auto; border: 2px solid #065beb; padding: 20px 25px; border-radius: 6px; background: 0;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 62%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Are You Looking for SharePoint Migration and Upgrade?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 36%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"padding: 10px 22px; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; color: #ffffff; background-color: #065beb; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sharepoint-migration-and-upgradation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call us today!<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> An intuitive taxonomy helps the users to find the information either through navigation or search. It is worth reminding the users that the taxonomy is essential in SharePoint intranets that is implemented both in the cloud and on premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Governance\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>Governance:<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">SharePoint intranet is for the entire business and not just for the IT. Businesses should always pay attention to those who are managing the intranet of the company. Developing an intranet can often be a huge project that affects every aspect of the business and decision makers cannot delegate the task on the IT department. It is very important that the upper management also gets involved for the SharePoint development to be successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The increased investments from the executives shows that the management has a very strong stake in the intranet of the company. Businesses that are looking to enhance their ROI should increase the activity and also support it among the upper management and also the budget makers.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">&#8220;Thus to conclude, I can say that businesses can easily boost their ROI from SharePoint by increasing their efforts to plan the project properly, considering the user experience of the application and governance of the website. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">When businesses consider the requisite resources for SharePoint implementations, then they will surely unlock the true potential of SharePoint development to help in business growth.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read: <\/strong><a href=\"\/blog\/modern-sharepoint-pages-and-its-new-features-for-the-users\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Modern SharePoint Pages and Its New Features for The Users<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s SharePoint is an enterprise level collaboration platform that is used by business owners to easily manage their platforms for a wide range of solutions. 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