Free SharePoint Hosting Templates

Apps4Rent’s SharePoint hosting plans include the following free Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hosting templates:

• Board of Directors

  The Board of Directors free SharePoint hosting template provides a single location for an external group of members to store and locate common documents such as quarterly reviews, shareholder meeting notes and annual strategy documents. The free SharePoint hosting template also tracks tasks, issues, and calendar items so that board members have a single location to view information relevant to them.

• Case Management for Government Agencies

  The Case Management for Government Agencies free SharePoint hosting template helps case managers track the status and tasks required to complete their work. When a case is created, standard tasks and documents are created which are modified based on the work each case manager has completed.

• Classroom Management

  The Classroom Management free SharePoint hosting WSS 3.0 template helps instructors and students organize and store information related to a particular class. The site includes document libraries to store assignments and lecture notes as well as calendars and announcement capability to enable communication from instructor to students.

• Clinical Trial Initiation and Management

  The Clinical Trial Initiation and Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the process of tracking clinical trial protocols, objective setting, subject selection, and budget activities. The site provides useful Office Word 2007 templates as well as the capability to create, track and assign tasks and issues related to a particular clinical trial.

• Competitive Analysis Site

  The Competitive Analysis Site free SharePoint hosting 3.0 template helps teams organize information about competitors and their products. The Competition analysis free SharePoint hosting template provides useful Microsoft Office 2007 documents to perform SWOT and other useful competitive analysis techniques. Links to industry, company and product news can also be included to provide a single location for all competitive information.

• Discussion Database

  The Discussion Database free SharePoint hosting template provides a location where team members can create and reply to discussion topics. Discussions are organized by categories, which are created by a site manager, and can be linked to Office Outlook 2007 via an RSS feed.

• Disputed Invoice Management

  The Disputed Invoice Management free SharePoint hosting template helps accounts payable departments track open invoices including the potential savings associated with paying the invoice early. The site includes useful free SharePoint hosting templates for analyzing the reasons the invoices are being disputed as well as for tracking the contact point for more information.

• Employee Activities Site

  The Employee Activities Site free SharePoint hosting template helps manage the creation and attendance of events for employees. Activity owners use the site to review proposals for new activities and create event calendar items. Employees use the site to sign up as well as track which activities they have attended in the past.

• Employee Self-Service Benefits

  The Employee Self-Service Benefits free SharePoint hosting template provides tools for an organization to inform employees about available benefits as well as to enable them to enroll for each benefit.

• Employee Training Scheduling and Materials

  The Employee Training Scheduling and Materials free SharePoint hosting template helps instructors and employees manage courses and related materials. Instructors can use the site to add new courses and organize course materials. Employees use the site to schedule attendance at a course, track courses they’ve attended and to provide feedback.

• Equity Research

  The Equity Research free SharePoint hosting template helps teams collaborate on researching stocks and other equities. It provides a central location for teams to store documents, post links, track news, and hold discussions related to the equities tracked by the site.

• Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking

  The Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking free SharePoint hosting template helps marketing managers track the implementation and success of outbound marketing activities. This free SharePoint hosting template allows managers to create marketing activities and track the results of those activities, such as responses generated and sales completed. The Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking free SharePoint hosting template contains multiple methods for analyzing the success of the campaigns including automated calculations and Office Excel 2007 templates for more detailed analyses.

• Manufacturing Process Management

  The Manufacturing Process Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams to model and track manufacturing processes as well as tasks and issues that arise in the upkeep of these processes.

• New Store Opening

  The New Store Opening free SharePoint hosting template helps a team manage the opening of new store locations or re-modeling of existing store location. The site provides a single location to manage tasks, issues, and documents for all store opening processes, enabling end users to view relevant information and providing project managers insight across the entire project.

• Product and Marketing Requirements Planning

  The Manufacturing Process Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams to model and track manufacturing processes as well as tasks and issues that arise in the upkeep of these processes.

• Manufacturing Process Management

  The Manufacturing Process Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams to model and track manufacturing processes as well as tasks and issues that arise in the upkeep of these processes.

• New Store Opening

  The New Store Opening free SharePoint hosting template helps a team manage the opening of new store locations or re-modeling of existing store location. The site provides a single location to manage tasks, issues, and documents for all store opening processes, enabling end users to view relevant information and providing project managers insight across the entire project.

• Product and Marketing Requirements Planning

  The Product and Marketing Requirements Planning free SharePoint hosting template enables teams to manage the process of collecting and documenting requirements for new products. The site provides several Microsoft Office 2007 templates providing useful techniques for Marketing, Product and Steering committee actions as well as a template for meeting notes and financial information.

• Request for Proposal

  The Request for Proposal free SharePoint hosting template helps manage the process of creating and releasing an initial RFP, collecting submissions of proposals and formally accepting the selected proposal from amongst those submitted. The site also helps simplify the process of notifying individuals about the status of the RFP and submitted proposals.

• Sports League

  The Sports League Site free SharePoint hosting template helps an intra-company league administrator manage a baseball league. The site tracks team information, players, captains and scheduled team activities such as games, practices and social events. Team members can enter in game results and perform analysis at a team, game or individual player level. The site also enables discussions between league members through a League Discussion board.

• Team Work Site

  The Team Work Site free SharePoint hosting template provides a place where project teams can upload background documents, track scheduled calendar events, and submit action items that result from team meetings. The site also tracks the creation and purpose of ‘sub-teams’ as well as enables discussion of topics created by members of the team.

• Timecard Management

  The Timecard Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams track hours spent working on various projects. The site enables team members to ‘punch in’ on a particular project and ‘punch out’ when they cease work. The system automatically generates the time worked by project, and can show managers who is working on a particular project, total hours versus budgeted time and the details of who worked on a each project entered into the site.

• Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management

  The Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management free SharePoint hosting template helps employees manage requests for out of office days. Team members post days they will be unavailable and can use the system to assign their responsibilities to others during those days. The free SharePoint hosting template helps team leaders manage requests for vacation and provides dashboards showing which users are signed up for a set of responsibilities.

• Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects

  The Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects free SharePoint hosting template helps project teams track and budget multiple, interrelated sets of activities. This free SharePoint hosting template provides project management tools such as project creation, assignment of new tasks, Gantt Charts and common status designators. It helps team members consolidate the status of multiple projects into a single view, tracking progress against a set project budget and timeline.

• Bug Database

  The Bug Database free SharePoint hosting template helps development teams collect and track information about bugs in their code. This free SharePoint hosting template allows bugs to be logged with information such as reproduction steps, category, comments, priority and severity of the bug. Bug categories can specify category owners so users can quickly determine the appropriate bug owners.

• Call Center

  The Call Center free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the process of handling customer service requests. The free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage service requests from issue identification to cause analysis and resolution. Role-based dashboards display relevant information for each service request and a knowledge base can help track related documents and items previously used to solve past call center issues. Management focused dashboards track performance with metrics such as average resolution time and service request performance history.

• Change Request Management

  The Change Request Management free SharePoint hosting template helps users track risks associated with a design change. Team members can submit a change request, notifying stakeholders of the risks involved with the change. The free SharePoint hosting template allows a team member to approve or reject the request.

• Compliance Process Support Site

  The Compliance Process Support Site free SharePoint hosting template helps both teams and executive sponsors to manage compliance implementation endeavors. The site allows users to specify control tasks required to meet regulation requirements as well capture compliance issues as they arise. The free SharePoint hosting template contains document libraries used by team members to store related files as well as a calendar to track key audit dates.

• Contacts Management

  The Contacts Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage contact information that needs to be shared among team members. The free SharePoint hosting template allows teams to enter contact information through a web based interface or through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. When used in conjunction with Office Outlook 2007, team members can ‘subscribe’ to receive updated contract information whenever other users make changes to a contact.

• Document Library and Review

  The Document Library and Review free SharePoint hosting template helps people manage the review cycle common to processes like new product specification, publication, knowledge management and project plan development. It combines the functionality of a version-tracking document library with a threaded discussion list to provide a feedback and revision system. This free SharePoint hosting template is intended for teams that need a central location for document review, discussion, revision control and approval.

• Event Planning

  The Event Planning free SharePoint hosting template helps teams organize events efficiently through the use online registration, schedules, communication and feedback. Role based dashboards offer specific information for various event members such as speaker, guest, staff, vendor, and delegate and attendee home pages.

• Expense Reimbursement and Approval

  he Expense Reimbursement and Approval free SharePoint hosting template helps manage elements of the expense approval process, saving time for approvers. Employees can enter expense information into the application template. Approvers can then review the information and manage the payment approval. Users monitor the status of their reimbursement request through a filtered view listing their outstanding requests.

• Help Desk

  The Help Desk free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the process of handling service requests. Team members use the free hosting template to identify a service request, manage identification of the root cause and track solution status. The free SharePoint hosting template provides role-based dashboards displaying information relevant to customer service representatives and managers, including performance history.

• Inventory Tracking

  The Inventory Tracking free SharePoint hosting template helps organizations track elements associated with inventory. This free SharePoint hosting template helps managers track inventory levels by capturing manual input of updated inventory information. Users are notified when each part reaches the reorder quantity and helps these users manage customer and supplier information such as historical inventory levels.

• IT Team Workspace

  The IT Team Workspace free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the development, deployment and support of software projects. The free SharePoint hosting template allows users to update information on projects, tasks, issues, milestones and bugs. It also includes help desk functionality, making it easy for team members to guide service requests from initiation to resolution. Role based dashboards provide relevant information to team members, such as unassigned tasks and performance history.

• Job Requisition and Interview Management

  The Job Requisition and Interview Management free SharePoint hosting template demonstrates the power of collaboration by helping a recruiter streamline the process of filling job openings within a company. This free SharePoint hosting template helps the recruiter manage requisitions, capture referrals and resumes and coordinate interviews. The Job Requisition and Interview Management SharePoint hosting template enables people to input their candidate feedback centrally and track hire / no hires recommendations.

• Knowledge Base

  The Knowledge Base free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the information that is resident within their organization. This free SharePoint hosting template enables team members to upload existing documents or create new ones using web-based content creation tools. Items are tagged with relevant identifying information so that others can more easily find the documents and learn from the collective knowledge in their organization. The free SharePoint hosting template can be utilized in a ‘top down’ approach, where a centralized knowledge department ‘pushes down’ relevant content to the rest of the business or a ‘bottom up’ approach, where knowledge is captured and shared by all users as a normal part of doing business.

• Lending Library

  The Lending Library free SharePoint hosting template helps people manage the physical assets in an organization’s library. This free SharePoint hosting template tracks general properties about the physical assets and which user has currently checked out the asset. The Lending Library SharePoint hosting template also provides a librarian dashboard to help identify currently available and overdue assets. Automated email notifications can be sent to borrowers who have an overdue item.

• Physical Asset Tracking and Management

  The Physical Asset Tracking and Management free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage requests and track physical assets. An asset manager approves asset requests and manages the properties of the assets in the system, such as location, condition, manufacturer, model, current owner and estimated value.

• Project Tracking Workspace

  The Project Tracking Workspace free SharePoint hosting template helps small team projects manage project information in a single location. The free SharePoint hosting template provides a place where a team can list and view project issues and tasks. Functionality is provided to help drive project status reporting, including assignment of new tasks, Gantt Charts and common status designators.

• Room and Equipment Reservations

  The Room and Equipment Reservations free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the utilization of shared meeting rooms and equipment. This free SharePoint hosting template enables team members to identify times when specific rooms and/or equipment are available and place a reservation for a specified time.

• Sales Lead Pipeline

  The Sales Lead Pipeline free SharePoint hosting template helps teams manage the sales pipeline by tracking leads, opportunities, contacts, and accounts. Through role-based dashboards team members can track sales information, assign open opportunities and gain visibility into the status of overall leads entered into the hosting template.