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SharePoint for Insurance

Last month I was invited to speak at the IASA Mid-West Regional Chapter about Microsoft SharePoint, what it is and what it means for insurance carriers.

I started my presentation by mentioning that SharePoint is actually many things and, more specifically, different things to different people.

According to Microsoft, SharePoint makes it easier for people to work together, set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.

According to Wikipedia, it is a replacement for multiple web applications that supports various combinations of enterprise website requirements.

Here's my own stab at describing it:

- It's a web site.

- It's a tool to create web sites.

- It's a container for "stuff"

- It's a tool to collaborate on, organize, protect and share "stuff"

At Xpertdoc we use SharePoint as a library for digital content (mostly document fragments and images) as a target repository for documents like claims correspondence and policy contracts that are generated by our tool, and as a platform for workflow, collaboration and distribution. We have deployed, configured and/or integrated with SharePoint servers in numerous projects including one currently underway for an AIG subsidiary.

This entry was written by Francis Dion posted on October 26, 2011 . Follow any comments here with the feed for this post. You can post a comment.

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