Hosted Sharepoint
SharePoint Business Template Services
Customized application templates developed by Microsoft® unlock the power of hosted SharePoint services. Below is a selection of templates available for download directly from Microsoft.com at no additional cost to you.
View a complete list of SharePoint Business Templates at Microsoft.com.
Executive Management
A Board of Directors or Executive Board may use this application for Windows SharePoint Services to track tasks required by the Board, keep member information, manage a calendar of meetings and activities, host discussions about key issues, and store mission, financial, business, meeting minutes, and other information.
Finance
This application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to help small brokers and banks track documentation and progress on home, car, and other loans. It provides a central site for accessing financial calculators, forms, announcements, team surveys, and discussions.
Human Resources/Office Management
HR Programs and Services Forms
This application for Windows SharePoint Services is a central site for employees to sign up, using InfoPath forms, for Human Resources (HR) programs and services such as ID badges, parking permits, 401K, healthcare benefits, and more. It also allows an HR manager or benefits administrator to easily view new requests to review, and keep track of all past requests.
Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management
The Employee Absence Cover application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a central place for managers and employees to see when team members will be out of office, make vacation requests, and find links to individual job sites so a co-worker can easily cover for someone while they are out.
Employee Activities Site
The Employee Activities Site application for Windows SharePoint Services is a central site for communicating information to employees about company clubs, teams, and events. With this application, employees can sign up for activities, access contact and schedule information, participate in discussions and surveys, and view activity photos. Now companies can more easily keep employees up to date on activities in which they may participate, and employees can quickly access the information they need to get involved.
Employee Timesheet and Scheduling Management
Managers of businesses with hourly employees use this application for Windows SharePoint Services for reviewing and approving timesheets, posting shift and schedule information, making announcements, storing key documents, and surveying their team for feedback on various issues. Employees use this site for submitting their timecard, viewing their assigned shifts, getting updates on job-related information, and requesting schedule changes using discussions to which other employees may reply.
Employee Training
The Employee Training application for Windows SharePoint Services is a central go-to site for employees to easily find and sign up for training opportunities related to their role or department. Human Resources or training managers can keep track of information such as training location schedules, number of attendees, and required reading materials. They may also post announcements or send surveys about training issues.
Event Coordination
The Event Coordination application for Windows SharePoint Services is a central site for managing the entire event coordination process from event scoping, to organizing tasks and key dates, storing vendor information, posting event-related documents, inviting attendees, and evaluating the event.
Performance Review Management
This application for Windows SharePoint Services is to be used by human resource managers to manage the performance review process across an organization. It is a central site for organizing performance review forms, employee performance history, and related information.
Expense Reimbursement Request
This application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to manage the expense report process. It allows the ability to submit new expense reports, post and find expense guidelines and helpful links, and view expense reports according to department, person, type, date, and status.
Room and Equipment Reservation
This application for Windows SharePoint Services provides one go-to place for organizing conference room, conference call, and meeting equipment availability and for making requests to reserve them.
Travel Request
The Travel Request application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to organize the travel request and approval process. It includes a calendar displaying when workers are out and where, a travel request form, and summaries for managers of requests that need to be approved. It is also a central site for posting travel guidelines and policies, finding links to helpful travel sites, and initiating discussions about travel.
IT Department/Company
The IT Developer Team Site application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a central place for developers to access code snippets, track assignments and key dates, manage issues, store contact information, maintain a knowledge base, and communicate via discussions, surveys and announcements. The IT manager can easily adapt the document libraries, lists, issue tracker, and calendar to manage their own essential developer team information.
Legal
This application for Windows SharePoint Services is for company legal departments to post legal documents and templates, communicate requirements and processes, and provide contact information. It also features a legal document review tool for managing, prioritizing, and tracking employee requests to review contracts and documents
Project Management
Project Team Site
The Project Team Site application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a central location for the project manager and team to collaborate during all phases of the project lifecycle from initiation to close-out. It is designed to help the project manager easily track the status of tasks, issues, key dates, deadlines, costs, and best practices through the use of customized lists, document libraries, surveys and discussions.
Change Management
This application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a platform for managing the Change Order process related to a particular professional services project and serves as a mechanism for tracking past changes along with their reasons and impacts.
Meeting Management Site
The Meeting Management Site application for Windows SharePoint services is a central place for meeting facilitators to post announcements, schedule, attendee list, supporting materials, objectives, location information, and past meeting minutes. This gives attendees quick access to essential information about the meeting.
Purchasing/RFP Management
This application for Windows SharePoint services is a central portal for managing the Request for Proposal (RFP) process from writing the RFP document to inviting prospects, managing the timeline and project plan, tracking RFP responses, and evaluating the proposals submitted.
Recruiting
The Recruiting Resource Center application for Windows SharePoint Services provides an easy, organized way to handle the recruiting process including opening job requisitions, reviewing resumes, managing candidates, facilitating interview cycles, and collecting post-interview feedback. It also features document libraries for storing documents related to recruiting, and discussions for communicating with others about recruiting activities.
Sales and Marketing
Competitive Intelligence Resource Dashboard
The Competitive Intelligence (CI) Dashboard application for Windows SharePoint Services is designed to improve organization of CI-related materials, and communication about competitive issues among sales, public relations, marketing, product or service management, and executive personnel. It features automatic news feeds from MSNBC, placeholder for competitive graphics, a list for tracking competitive profiles and rankings, and discussions, surveys and document libraries related to CI.
New Product Development
The New Product Development application for Windows SharePoint Services provides a collaboration tool for product development teams to share contact information, links to important sites, a task list and calendar, and new product planning documents. It also provides one place for executive management to go to view details about the new product development process and status.
Marketing Communications Campaign Site
The Marketing Communications Campaign application for Windows SharePoint Services is a central site for marketing managers to manage the creation of marketing plans and presentations, tracking tasks, maintaining a campaign events calendar, organizing contacts, and communicating the goals, objectives and key deliverables for a particular marketing communications campaign.
Support and Customer Service
This application for Windows SharePoint Services features several tools to assist a help desk or customer service team in managing requests from customers and in improving team communication. It features an issue tracker, document library for posting helpful materials such as telephone scripts, technical how-to-guides, and knowledge base articles, and provides a forum for discussions between help desk staff.
