For companies whose employees are split into teams and departments, SharePoint 2013 is a great collaboration platform with features to support team communications. It has features such as TeamSite, MySite, and social media communication tools such as Yammer where teams can interact with each other and other departments too. SharePoint Consulting services can be hired to create customized team templates to suit the company needs. Team Site templates There is a huge collection of TeamSite templates that the company can choose from and further customize to match the needs of the team. A conventional TeamSite template from SharePoint will have: Tabs that will display sub-sites and links to them Announcements where team members can post messages on the site home page Quick launch to with list of key sites on Navigation menu Calendar to display important dates and events Site Actions for Site commands Document Library for uploading and viewing team documents Links to post interesting links for site members to view. Uses of TeamSites TeamSites can be used to collaborate at multiple levels with members from the same office and with members who are based in various other locations. the greatest advantage of collaborating with team members on cloud is that it eliminates the necessity to be face to face at all times and when the need to face each other arises, it can be done in a more time efficient and inexpensive manner using Skype for video conferencing. TeamSites provide a secure environment to share confidential data and the authorization for who can view the document can also be controlled. Collaboration for new projects can be done by creating an exclusive forum for the concerned project with the team members added so that they can discuss project related matters unobtrusively. The data stored on the TeamSite can be analyzed using the Excel tools provided on SharePoint to generate relevant Business Intelligence that can be used for making forecasts and analyzing the bigger picture. With SharePoint, no data gets redundant as it can be stored, accessed and edited whenever needed with the easy Search option integrated within the system. Permission Levels on TeamSites To protect the security and privacy, TeamSite access is offered at three levels: Visitor Group can only view the site content Members group can contribute to the site besides viewing and even make edits where required Owner group has full control and can view and edit site content and modify the site settings With this multi-level permission created, the TeamSite presents a public interface in a secure field. The SharePoint Developer can be given directions about the customizations that should be done. SharePoint service for cloud collaboration within the organization is cost-effective, time-efficient and simplifies systems and helps eliminate any glitches.