What is SharePoint?

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.

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.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.
· 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.
· Portals - Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user's profile.
· Enterprise Search - Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
· Enterprise Content Management - Create and manage documents, records, and Web content.
· Business Process and Forms - Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
· Business Intelligence - Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.

Top Ten Benefits of SharePoint
1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
2. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
3. Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
4. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
5. Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
6. Connect people with information and expertise.
7. Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
8. Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
9. Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.