Microsoft ‘Sharepoint’ App Allows Mobile Access To Key Corporate Data

Back in May, Microsoft announced that their intranet access application “Sharepoint” will be available for mobile use at some point in the future. Recently, the company came through with their promise and released a “Sharepoint” app. The app is only available to iOS users for the moment, but Android and Windows versions will be released by the end of the year.

Tech Crunch notes that “Sharepoint” is being used by more than 200,000 organizations at the moment, and these organizations are composed of dozens, if not hundreds of employees who might need access to the information stored in their company’s intranet for one reason or another. As such, despite the widespread usefulness of the tool in the corporate world, Microsoft needed to provide its users with a way to access important data on the go without compromising security.

What makes something like “Sharepoint” so important, particularly in this fast-paced world of companies overtaking each other at a drop of a hat, is the matter of accessibility at anytime, anywhere. Accessing information like company news, bulletins, announcements, and last-minute changes via the company’s intranet is just not practical once the employee is already outside. More than that, communications via person-to-person connections is not as efficient as it would be compared to having something like a “Sharepoint” app on their phones.

Just to get an idea of how useful “Sharepoint” is as an app, PC World explains that users will see three main tabs once they enter the app; “Sites,” “Links” and “People.” Obviously, “Sites” is where employees are taken to websites that are involved with their work, and the same goes for “Links.” With the “People” tab, users are able to see their co-workers and the projects they are working on, so they can collaborate easier and know who to ask about which project.