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What
is Microsoft Office 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.
Search, Share. Collaborate.
With Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, you can
empower your employees to work together and collaborate more
effectively. Your employees can use an extensive array of tools
to help them
share information, organizational knowledge, and personal expertise.
Your organization can manage information as well as organizational
knowledge to help increase productivity, simplify compliance,
and derive more value from information assets in a security-enhanced
environment. You can:
• Search - Quickly connect people
with the right information.
• Share - Convert insight into organizational knowledge.
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Collaborate – Simplify how people work together and help
them more effectively apply information to their needs.
SharePoint Server 2007 delivers
a unified suite of server capabilities that can help improve
your company’s organizational
effectiveness by:
• Providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search.
• Accelerating shared business processes.
• Facilitating information sharing across boundaries for better business
insight.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint consist of two basic
modules exposed through two types of licensing - standard
and enterprise.
- Windows SharePoint Services
(WSS) - free platform component that comes with
the newest Windows operating systems
- Microsoft Office SharePoint
Services (MOSS) - purchasable product that offers
six (6) basic capabilities as mentioned below. MOSS is
further segmented into Standard and Enterprise per seat
(CAL) licenses.
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- Standard (STND) - provides
the core set of features including collaboration, content
and web content management, portal, versioning and retention
scheduling
- Enterprise (ENT) - extends
the standard core set of features with business intelligence,
enterprise search, workflow and web-based forms
In order to take advantage of all
the features of MOSS, users must purchase both a STND and
ENT CAL license plus the one-time SharePoint Server license. |
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Collaboration and Social
Computing
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists |
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Enterprise
Content Management
Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow |
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Business Process and Forms
OOB workflows, WF integration, Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO |
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Enterprise Search
Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people, and business data search |
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Business Intelligence
Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/ Dashboards |
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Portal
Enterprise Portal
template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy
control
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Call us today to inquire about a complimentary document strategy assessment
and how Microsoft SharePoint can be put to work for you. Call 203-789-8791
ext.119 |
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