Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organisational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or Business Intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data; participate in forms-driven business processes; and access and analyze large amounts of business data.

Capabilities

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organisational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

• Portals

  Portal sites connect your people to business-critical information, expertise, and applications. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a world-class enterprise portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of your business.

  • Connect your people to information and expertise
  • Connect your people to key business applications
  • Connect your people to role-specific resources
• Business Process and Forms

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides built-in workflow templates to automate approval, review, and archiving processes. With Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can also create, maintain, and analyze custom workflows, enabling you to streamline your collaborative processes. Electronic forms provided through InfoPath Forms Services are an integral part of such workflows. These electronic forms designed in InfoPath make it easy to collect and validate information that drives your business processes. And you can collect and validate this information right from the Microsoft Office client applications you use every day.

  • Browser-Based Forms with InfoPath Forms Services
  • Integrated Workflow and Document Information Panel from Within Microsoft Office Client Applications
  • Custom Workflow Design with Office SharePoint Designer 2007
• Enterprise Content Management

  Over the last several years, organisations have created a huge volume of unstructured content that includes documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages, and more. This content often exists in a state of unmanaged chaos that prevents an organisation from properly using these valuable assets for better knowledge sharing, improved customer communications, and increased process efficiency. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Microsoft is a key component of an organisation's infrastructure that can help companies overcome these challenges.

  Built on a well-integrated platform, ECM from Microsoft easily extends content management to every information worker in an organisation through integration with familiar tools such as the Microsoft Office system. A Microsoft ECM solution can help businesses:

  • Manage diverse content
  • Satisfy compliance and legal requirements
  • Efficiently manage multiple Web sites
  • Streamline business processes
  • Document management, Records Management, Web-content Management & Forms Solution Capabilities
  • Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)
• Collaboration

  Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs. Collaboration

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server helps your organisation get more done by providing a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities, and people-driven processes. Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the overall Microsoft collaboration vision and integrates with other collaborative products to offer a comprehensive infrastructure for working with others.

  • Empower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces
  • Connect Organisations Through Portals
  • Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools
  • Reduce Cost and Complexity for IT by Using an Integrated Infrastructure, Existing Investments, and an Extensible Architectural Platform
  • Enhance Enterprise Mashups
• Business Intelligence

  Business Intelligence with Office SharePoint Server provides an infrastructure that makes it easy for decision-makers to access information anytime, anywhere. People can get up-to-date information where they work, collaborate, and make decisions, whether it's on the desktop or over the Web.

  • Microsoft Office Excel-Based Business Intelligence
  • Dashboards and Report Centre
  • Business Data Integration and Discovery
• Enterprise Search

  Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is the Microsoft enterprise search solution for organisations that want to increase productivity and reduce information overload by providing their employees, partners, and customers the ability to find relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats. With actionable search results that respect security permissions, Office SharePoint Server 2007 lets users go beyond documents and across repositories to unlock information, find people, and locate expertise in the enterprise.

  • Built for the enterprise
  • Unlock data and expertise
  • Integrated user experience
• Social Computing

  Social Computing, also known as Web 2.0, is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts online through the use of software and technology. Microsoft's social computing tools are delivered as part of the collaboration infrastructure and integrated by design with Microsoft Office SharePoint Serverto help reduce costs and complexity while improving privacy and security.

  Microsoft® SharePoint® provides rich features for enterprise social computing, from social networking tools like My Sites to social content technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS and more. Because SharePoint and Microsoft Office are applications that people use every day, you can begin connecting, conversing, and innovating right away. Social computing is a natural extension of the total SharePoint collaboration solution—once you have SharePoint, you have the foundation of Enterprise 2.0, with nothing additional to buy, manage, or integrate into your IT infrastructure.

  • My Sites (personal or public sites)
  • People & Expertise Search
  • Blogs, Wikis & Discussion Forums
  • Team Sites
  • Works With Microsoft Office System
  • Rich Platform
• Web Content Management

  The Microsoft Web Content Management solution included in Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps businesses communicate, collaborate, and interact with employees, partners, and customers around the globe by providing a unified enterprise platform for enabling individual agility. By helping customers to project a consistent corporate brand and to put publishing power into the hands of business users, organisations can improve the effectiveness of the online channel while dramatically decreasing the cost associated with managing multiple Web sites.