Microsoft SharePoint
“According to Bill Gates, SharePoint is the fastest growing server product Microsoft
has ever had and the company is going to dedicate more resources to the product.
The company expects to have sold 100 million licences by July this year, he said”
– Infoworld March 2008
In fact Microsoft’s revenue from SharePoint has already exceeded US$1 Billion……and that doesn’t include all the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) product provided absolutely free with Small Business Server, Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows 2003/2008. WSS is the fundamental basis of and upgradeable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)
What is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?
MOSS is an integrated set of tools and functionality that allows organizations to collaborate and work more effectively. Specifically MOSS helps organizations collaborate, create portals, search, create forms and manage documents and provide business intelligence.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server can be used to solve many issues and business challenges. It enables a company to create intranets and truly bring together critical information and make it available to the right people in your organization. Furthermore, Workflow rules allow you to automate the movement of information and streamline operations. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server can also be used to create customer or supplier facing portals allowing them to login and connect with your organization.
Microsoft SharePoint Benefits and Features
- Collaboration
Bringing information from different systems and databases together - Content Management/Business Processes
Managing data, records and documents from multiple sources and routing standard forms for approval via workflow rules - Portals
Creating intranets and portals to provide information and allow secure communication with key suppliers and vendors - Search
Searching business information across systems and locations - Business Intelligence
Providing business intelligence in a collaborative environment using familiar tools like Excel or the very powerful Performance Point Server.
