What is SharePoint? Key Feature of MOSS 2007

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server brings a host of new features around Team collaboration, Personalized Portals Business Intelligence, Enterprise Content Management and Business Process and Workflow Integration. Microsoft has combined the features of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2003 and Microsoft Content Management Server and bundled these along with several new features in the MOSS 2007 package. To customers, this represents tremendous value for their spend.

Team Collaboration- Connects people with the information and resources they need. Workgroups can coordinate calendars, organize client documents, set up notifications and create team workspaces.

• Task oriented, in-context collaboration
• Users can create and control their own collaborative workspaces
• Manage projects efficiently with built in task lists, task relationships, and project status.
• Enable disconnected participation with offline support
• Key technologies
  • IM, Blogs, wikis, issue tracking, project mgmt
  • Alerts, RSS
  • E-mail enabled lists
  • Rich offline experience

Personalized Portals- Rich, personalized aggregation point for your user experience, applications and information.

• Build customized portal sites for each aspect of your business
• Highly scalable architecture to build personal, divisional, intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.
• Quickly build composite applications from existing systems.
• Key technologies
  • NET 2.0 Support
  • Completely redesigned My Site
  • Information aggregation Web parts
  • Pluggable authentication and rich deployment models

Enterprise Content Management and Integrity- Streamline management of diverse content in a central repository and ensure the integrity of all stored documents on the portal.

• Document management, records management, and web content management
• Protect content from unauthorized users
• Rich and seamless office integration
• Single infrastructure management across multiple and multilingual websites. 
• Key technologies
  • Content Types
  • Integrated Workflow
  • Internet scale WCM
  • Records Management with policies and auditing

Business Process Integration- Automated workflow and electronic forms simplify collecting and validating data that drives your business processes

• People centric workflow out-of-the-box and custom workflow design
• Streamlines review, approval, and archive processes
• Built on a rich platform – Windows Workflow Foundation
• Integrates with structured business processes
• Key technologies
  • Out of the box workflow templates
  • InfoPath Forms Services
  • Business Data Catalog
  • XML File Format
  • Out-of-the-box connectors: SAP, Siebel, Dynamics

On Demand Business Intelligence- Decision makers can access real time data and generate reports anytime anywhere.

• The glue for “BI for the masses”
• Broad Sharing of spreadsheets and reusable spreadsheet models.
• Create personalized dashboards from disparate sources using Excel web parts
• From KPIs , Reports , Dashboards, to Scorecards
• Key technologies
  • Excel Spreadsheets and SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Report Center
  • KPIs and KPI Lists
  • Business Data Catalog
  • ODC Library

Enterprise Search- Fine tuned and relevant search allows information workers across the enterprise to quickly access appropriate data.

• Unlocks relevant content in a wide range of repositories and formats.
• Displays intelligent search results from LOB, relational databases and other structured content.
• Actionable search results that respect security permissions
• Leverage People Search by job title, expertise, and common interests
• Search Entities
  • File Shares
  • Share Point Sites
  • Exchange Public Folders
  • Lotus Notes Database
  • Index Search

Please email us at sharepoint@ignify.com or call us at (888) IGNIFY
if you would like more information on our SharePoint or MOSS 2007 services.