Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business.
SharePoint is an enterprise information portal, from Microsoft, that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services, with SharePoint being built upon WSS.
SharePoint Server is designed for individuals, teams and projects within a medium to large company wide enterprise portal.
Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.
Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications.
SharePoint facts
SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in the history of Microsoft. Over 100 million licenses of SharePoint have been sold worldwide. SharePoint has been adopted by over 17,000 companies worldwide. SharePoint is listed, by Forrester, as the number 1 portal product. In 2008 sales of SharePoint surpassed 1 billion US dollars
Top 10 benefits of Sharepoint server 2007
Provides a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
Effective management of multilingual content to gain increased business value.
Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across systems. Connect people with information and expertise.
Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries without coding any custom applications.
Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.
Windows sharepoint services:
Improve team productivity with easy-to-use collaborative tools
Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content
Get users up to speed quickly
Deploy solutions tailored to your business processes
Reduce the complexity of securing business information
Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources
Take file sharing to a new level with robust storage capabilities
Easily scale your collaboration solution to meet business needs
Provide a cost-effective foundation for building Web-based applications
Popular Features:
Debugger Feature: Adds a new menu item to the Site Actions menu that attaches the debugger.
Log Viewer: This is a Feature for viewing the Unified Logging Service (ULS) logs from within Central Admin
The Toolbar Manager feature allows you to selectively show and hide menu items on the standard list/library toolbar.
Unique Column Policy feature creates a new Information Policy
Window Links allows you to control all aspects of opening the link in a new window. Activate it from the Site Collection Features page and then make a new list from the Create Page.
Its compatibility with Microsoft components makes it even more efficient fo various applications
Some useful features:
Collaborate Easily and Effectively
Team members can create collaborative work spaces and stay connected via discussion boards, announcement lists, surveys, document & meeting workspaces sites
Enhancements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 make it easier than ever to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.
Enhancements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 make it easier than ever to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.
Provide creative forums for getting ideas and the information about the recent developments in this technology.
Enhanced support for offline synchronization through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 increases control over and enhances security of your organization’s data and information resources.
Sharepoint Helps in deploying a manageable infrastructure.
With Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, IT professionals can create new, efficient, Web-based tools and services specific to the organization, department, business process or industry.
A SharePoint Web site allows you to easily interact with colleagues from across the organization and around the world. The ability to create knowledge bases, online surveys, discussion boards, and chats can help produce, organize, and distribute project information.
Manage information:
SharePoint sites are great for storing information such as event calendars, contacts, Web links, discussions, issues lists, and announcements. You can create custom lists in your team site that meet your team's specific information-sharing needs. some notable feature for this are-contacts lists, links, spreadsheets and custom lists.
Share files:
Share library files, picture libraries, documents
Customize:
You can build custom pages, themes, alerts, personal views etc.
Conclusion:
As companies grow so does the amount of their files. It soon becomes difficult to keep track of the multiplying documents and their locations. SharePoint overcomes this by allowing you to store and share your files in a central site.
Sharing work files through email is a cumbersome process. SharePoint eliminates this by allowing files to be stored in one location, allowing easy access to all team members.
Business Intelligence has traditionally remained in the hands of a few key decision makers within organizations. For years, it has been the goal to “democratize business intelligence” by making it available to all levels of workers throughout companies.
Today’s work occurs over multiple locations, whether it is in different countries, office locations, separate departments or at your home office. SharePoint enables teams and individuals to connect and collaborate together regardless of where they are located. .
It’s difficult and time consuming to create and maintain sites. SharePoint allows anyone to create sites for use within their company’s Intranet, as they are needed, whether they are departmental sites, document libraries, meetings sites, survey sites, or discussion boards.
Surveys have shown that employees can spend up to 20 – 30 % of their day searching for data and information. SharePoint eliminates this drag on productivity by providing the robust search functionality needed to find the information and expertise buried in the thousands, or hundreds of thousands of files a company generates in the course of business.
Finally, taking business intelligence out of the hands of the few and into the hands of many has become possible with the help of Sharepoint.
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