readymade functional modules for collaboration

 The best part about SharePoint is collaboration. Collaboration has four major entities: people, task, data, and communication.

So below are some key points of enterprise:

• We have people in our organization.
• People are assigned tasks.
• To complete a task we need to exchange data.
• We also need to plan/monitor tasks.
• To communicate data, we need a communication channel like email, Wiki, etc.

SharePoint has lot of readymade functions which can help us accommodate all the requirements of the collaboration. To see those readymade functionalities, click on site actions and click on create. You will be popped with a list of reusable functionality pages which you can pick up and achieve collaboration.

Now let’s map the ready made functionalities with the collaboration requirements.

Readymade functionalities in SharePoint
People	Contacts	You can get this in the communication section of the create page. It creates a page which can help us maintain contact information about people.
Task	Tasks	You can get this in the tracking section of the create page. It helps us track a task which your team member needs to complete.
Data	Document library	Its helps to share, edit, and version documents.
	Picture library	Helps to share picture documents.
	Translation management	Helps to create documents in multiple languages.
	Data connection library	It helps to share files that contain information about external data.
Monitoring	Project task	You can get this in the tracking section of the create page. It gives a Gantt chart view of tasks.
	Issue tracking	You can get this reusable functionality in the tracking section of create page. It helpss to manage / assign and prioritize issues from start to finish.
	Calendar	Helps to create a calendar for deadlines and events.
Communication	Wiki	Helps to create an interconnected system like Wiki.
	Announcement	Helps to share news and status through announcements.
	Discussion board	Helps to create a discussion board like the newsgroup.