
<p>Socialtext is making it easier for its customers to access their Microsoft documents. The company has integrated Microsoft's SharePoint to help users share and collaborate on Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) PowerPoint, Excel and Word files within its enterprise social software.</p><p>Socialtext says it keeps a record of an attachment once a user has uploaded it, but the file itself is kept in SharePoint. When a user wants to change or make updates to a file, he or she can do that in Socialtext, or just update a new version from SharePoint.</p><p>Users are also able to search for their documents within SharePoint using a simple search function and can upload bulk documents.</p><p>The company said SharePoint 'events,' which presumably would be uploading, editing or sharing files, can be set up to appear in Socialtext activity streams. Socialtext doesn't say how much information about the files would be shared in the stream, but this seems like it could backfire if say, someone mistakenly shares a private document or one that is only in a draft stage.</p><p><a href="http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/socialtext-adds-sharepoint-mix/2013-02-26">Keep reading...</a></p>