Power Your Word with SharePoint !

Enterprises invested in both Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 can derive more business benefits from their investments. Availability of the new app development paradigm – Apps for Office & Apps for SharePoint opens doors for more business innovations & possibilities.

These new app models allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills such as HTML 5, JavaScript / jQuery etc.

Microsoft Word provides automation capability when it comes to checking for grammatical errors. Imagine, if the same can be extended for validating a documents against regulatory compliance – how beneficial it will be for those organizations like insurance companies where day in & day out they are involved in lots of documentations and underwritings ..more ..

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SharePoint 2013 Architectural Trade-Offs

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