What is SharePoint?

Share Point Key Features CCS

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Social Networking
MOSS provides social networking features, including social networking Web Parts and profile linking. MOSS allows you to establish peer links between colleagues and identify hierarchical relationships. These relationships can be published on My Site pages and traversed wherever your personal profile appears on a site/web part.

My Site
MOSS provides the ability for individual users of a portal to create their own "My Site". My Site is essentially a home page designed to provide you with a starting point through which to access content that you own and content that might be relevant to you. This is also the place where your personal profile is published. You can also create shared and private image and document libraries, as well as your own pages and publication areas. You can also create your own personal blog on your My Site.

Site Directory
MOSS provides a new site template called "Site Directory". When you create your first portal via MOSS, it comes with a Site Directory. This site template is designed specifically for tracking links to sites, displaying site maps and site navigation lists, as well as searching through the site directory. With a Site Directory in your portal, you will be asked if you want to publish a link to your new site every time you create a new site within the portal, regardless of its depth within the hierarchy.

User Profiles
MOSS allows for Active Directory-integrated user profiles. It also provides security around profile properties. In other words, you can have information in your profile that is visible only to you, visible to your superiors, visible to your colleagues, etc. You can control what audience can see which user profile properties, and much more than that.

Site Manager
MOSS provides for an easy drag-and-drop interface for managing navigation bars, navigation strips, portal hierarchy information, and much more. In general, managing sites, site hierarchies, and hierchical site content is much easier with MOSS.

Portal or "Enterprise" templates
MOSS comes with new templates for a Portal Site (the default root-level site template of a portal site), Document Center, Search Center, Report Center and Site Directory.

Content / Knowledge Network / People Search
MOSS uses an enhanced relevance algorithm for its search engine, and is able to crawl content from multiple sites within an enterprise, as well as non-sharePoint web sites. It provides an enhanced "people search" tool that can be used to try and mine hidden relationship data and show you people related to knowledge.

Business Data Catalog / Business Data Search
It allows you to extend SharePoint data by integrating Business Data from external sources such as Web Services or Relational Databases. This allows you to do things like display SAP data within your SharePoint portal, or add a column to a Requirements Document stored in SharePoint that points to data stored in a Requirements Management tool elsewhere in your enterprise.

Document Workflow
You can use the workflows such as collecting feedback and performing a review of a document, or you can create your own workflows using a custom Workflow designer to create powerful workflows around specific types of documents like Whitepapers or magazine article submissions, chapter submissions etc.

Excel Services
This provides the ability to display the contents of excel spreadsheets within web parts, and to selectively allow editing of secured regions of that spreadsheet, including evaluation of formulae contained within the sheet and having the results display in real-time.

Business Intelligence
MOSS provides a site template called Report Center, optimized for report access and management, including a report library, a data connection library, and a dashboard template.

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SharePoint - Key Benefits - CCS

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Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
MOSS 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.

Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business processes.
Streamline your business process using workflows, that caters very simple business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection to very complex multi-step business activities.

Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively. And you can reduce litigation risk for your organization.

Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
You / your-content-authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates.

Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
You can access business data residing in your line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel. Also, you can create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser. Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.

Connect people with information and expertise.
You can search through your business data, document contents, people, and Web pages to get comprehensive and relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need.

Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
You can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.

Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents.

Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
MOSS 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.

Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.
MOSS 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.

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SharePoint-Typical Sever Farm Architecture-CCS

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SharePoint-Components-CCS

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Main Components of SharePoint are ...

Collaboration
Collaboration is a technology solution that allows users to interact efficiently with each other using software products to share documents, calendar, task, information etc.

Portals
Portal is a web enabled environment that allows even internet (external users) to access company intellectual resources and software applications.

Enterprise search
Increased relevance of search results, new functions to search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data in line-of-business applications, and improved manageability and extensibility.

Enterprise content management
Document management, Records management , Web content management. Organizations can use this functionality to deliver enhanced authoring, business document processing, publishing, policy management, and support for multilingual publishing.

Business process and forms
The Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services technologies enable organizations to streamline form-driven business processes through XML-based electronic forms to integrate smoothly with existing systems. Enables rapid solution creation and deployment, centralizes form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers.

Business intelligence (BI)
BI enables every employee of organizations to share, control, and reuse business information in order to make better business decisions.
BI provides Web and programmatic access to published Microsoft Office Excel worksheets, programmatic reuse of critical line-of-business data, and easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound key performance indicators, Web Parts, and published worksheets.

Workflows
WorkflowsWorkflow Management is the automation of business procedures or "workflows" during which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participant to another in a way that is governed by rules or procedures. Sequential workflows, procession of steps that execute in order until the last activity completes. Unlike sequential workflows, State Machine workflows do not have a prescribed execution flow, and need not have an end.

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What is SharePoint?

2007-12-27T04:07:00.000-08:00

Simply speaking

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a collection of BEST industry solutions in Web Sites, Web Concepts, Web Architecture, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, Business Process… so that the organizations can use/extent this pool to meet their requirement.

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