Collaboration describes the community aspect of SharePoint. The rich collaboration tools available within SharePoint allow users to effectively communicate and collaborate on any scale, whether local, national or global. Cross organisation information sharing is achieved through extranets and public facing internet sites facilitated by SharePoint's scalable nature.

When considering collaboration solutions, it is imperative to correctly capacity plan and future-proof the solution using Microsoft best practice. This best practice, combined with SharePoint's ability to integrate with client-side Office applications, allows an enhanced collaboration experience for the end user.  Myriad Technologies can architect site hierarchy, security models and server infrastructure to provide enterprise level solutions to assist in all corporate collaboration requirements.

Multiple Authentication Methods

Authentication methods allow users to connect to the SharePoint collaboration environment via an extranet. This enables users to manage their own username and password and therefore does not require management overhead from the hosted domain.

Intranet

Leveraging the SharePoint platform for an intranet collaborative environment is one of the most commonly utlised SharePoint feature sets. Myriad Technologies have extensive experience in architecting intranet solutions for enterprise level clients. Some commonly used features of SharePoint for effective intranet collaboration include:

• Publishing Site Collections
• Divisional Portals
• Team Sites
• Mysites
• Wikis and Blogs

Extranet

Extending SharePoint intranet web applications into an extranet environment enables internal users to log in externally. This feature, with the combination of forms based authentication, enables end users and external users to collaborate efficiently on a single SharePoint platform.

Internet

Using anonymous authentication allows users to access SharePoint public facing internet web sites. SharePoint allows companies to utilise an efficient web content management system that enables end users to quickly and easily manage content on their public facing website. The ability to brand SharePoint sites using various user experience methods allows corporate identity and style guides to be synonymous across all mediums.