looking for ways to improve performance, leveraging technology like business process management (BPM) and SharePoint, to outperform their competition.

I’ve been sharing examples in this series about the possibilities of process-enabling SharePoint to drive business improvement in different vertical industries.

I’m going to talk about collaboration, which is a long time sweet spot for SharePoint.

As organizations deploy business-critical applications onto SharePoint, a natural benefit is to use the collaborative and task management capabilities within SharePoint.

Instead, you can automate and streamline key processes like dispute resolution using business process management (BPM) and SharePoint.

SharePoint also provides some very sophisticated capabilities for dashboarding, reporting and analysis via Excel Services and PerformancePoint.

Wikis, notes and other SharePoint productivity tools can help address this problem.

I’ve found that use of a familiar interface like SharePoint and surrounding it with an intuitive experience can significantly help to engage users and speed adoption.

Productivity can be improved with SharePoint and process automation by ensuring that work activities are performed on time, as expected, and that inter-process connections are well defined.

Then consider what you might achieve for example by using BPM (business process management) to process-enable your supplier data in SharePoint and improve your supply chain cash flow