Why do a SharePoint installation and implementation?

Yes, you have to do it. No, don't ask more questions about it. Yes, you will need to learn a couple of things, and some of your colleagues are going to refuse using it, but you have to. In the long run, you will increase your organization productivity and you won't be able to live without it.

Some of the things you'll get:

• Central document repository: no more storing files on your local hard disk or on a shared folder in the network. With SharePoint you will be able to store documents in a repository accessible via web. When some other person needs to collaborate on the document, they can just go the specified web site, open the document, edit it and save it back to the repository. No more documents lying around.
• Document versioning: yes, will have a whole history of all the edits made on the document and go back and recover that version that you need.
• One search: search for documents and information inside documents from a single place. When you install SharePoint Portal Server, you will get the ability to search across sites and document libraries everywhere. Now you won't loose a document again.
• Metadata fields: Add information about documents. Forget about folder hierarchies for classifying documents. Add metadata fields for describing and searching.
• Forms: create a repository of standard forms used in your organization. Training requests, purchase orders, expense reimbursement, etc., etc., etc. Create and publish them in SharePoint.
• Sites: create special sites for collaboration. A site for the sale department, human resources department. For that new project we are starting.
• Collaboration features: create calendars, meeting spaces, assign tasks and create contacts around documents and other objects of the organization. Everything integrated in one site created for that purpose.
• It's the future: yes, it is. We will have one environment, invisible in the background, where all our documents will live and all the collaboration information will be stored. Today is called SharePoint.

Of course, this are just some of the things you will get when deploying SharePoint. There are a lot of other things you can do with it and customize it to your needs.

After your implementation don't forget to go a step further with workflow. Add document approval and routing to those documents and forms in SharePoint using our product, Procx. With it, you can really streamline processes and really do more with less. Go, give it a look at our SharePoint Workflow site and our InfoPath Workflow site.