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Collaboration tools are in high demand by businesses across markets as a way to boost productivity and manage information.  Companies use collaboration tools to increase teamwork and ease communication efforts. This reduces the risk of bottlenecks in a workflow process where only one employee or department is able to perform a task due to a lack of shared expertise, shared tools or shared goals.

SharePoint has distinguished itself as a business-enhancing collaboration and information management tool.  More and more companies are even opting for third party add-ons to SharePoint to enhance functionality and reap the most business benefit. SharePoint allows employees to share ideas, manage documents, publish expertise, and efficiently find the information they need.  As businesses strive to connect their departments, tools like SharePoint have become a necessity.

Read more to find out why customizing SharePoint with additional features can reconcile SharePoint with your actual business needs.

Businesses large and small have adopted SharePoint so they can easily access the information they need to get their jobs done.  However, more and more companies are opting for 3^rd party add-ons to enhance functionality and reap the most business benefit. 

AIIM, recently conducted a survey of its community members. In July 2012, AIIM presented the findings of its survey, "The SharePoint Puzzle - adding the missing pieces."

In the report AIIM states that "nearly half of (their) respondents feel that compared to out-of-the-box SharePoint, they could be 50% more productive with enhanced workflow, search, information reporting, and automated document creation tools. Scanning and capture, case management and social system add-ons would all produce significant productivity improvements of 25% or more. Over half are using or planning to use third-party add-on products to enhance these functional areas."

Read more on how the explosive growth of 3rd party add-ons for Sharepoint may affect you.

Extracting an image from a PDF document is an understandably desirable tool when working with PDFs. You may want to clip charts, examples or graphs to use online or in a presentation, for example.

Read more about the misconception regarding images in PDFs!