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Introduction to SharePoint 2007
What is Share Point?
Share Point is a Microsoft product that has many out of the box tools aimed at empowering collaboration within an organization between staffs with their partners and customers. The aim of collaboration is to empower and increase productivity to end-users. In this context, a portal is just one of the possible practical applications of the term “collaboration”.
The main components of SharePoint 2007 are collaboration, portals, enterprise search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence. Previous versions of SharePoint Server included SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and before that SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
- Search – Quickly connect people with right information. The new features provide a consistent and familiar search experience, increased relevance of search results, new functions to customise search center, search for people and expertise, the ability to index and connnect and search data in backend LOB applications and BDC, and improved manageability and extensibility. To find detail list of search features, click here.
- Business Intelligence – Having access to KPIs (e.g. staff/finance performance status), dashboards and reporting data. The BI features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide Web and programmatic access to published Office Excel spreadsheets, ODC library, programmatic reuse of critical LOB (line of business) data, and easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound KPIs, Web parts, and published spreadsheets.
- Business Forms – It is built on MS WSS (v3) as a MS ASP.NET version 2 application. It allows users to fill out InfoPath forms by using a web browser, providing rich user interface web forms based on front-end that is easily maintain by users in one central location to store, manage form templates and connect forms to multiple LOB applications. No single sign on, full search forms.
- Collaboration - Sharing of information through blogs, wikis, emails, calendars. Effectively apply information to your needs.
- Content Management – Record document mangement of files with policies and auditing, in one central location. It also able to manage and integrate workflows, archive and track changes. Moving from document management to record management,web content management and e-forms/workflows. It also provides integration with MS 2007 Office system.
- Portal – Rich personalise aggregation for user experience, provision of complete redesign of Mysite, targeting personalisation, portal sites and pluggable authenication with rich deployment models. Portal uses web part framework that is built into the MS .NET (v2) framework platform. To find detail list of portal features, click here.
History of SharePoint
SharePoint started off as Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) back in 2003, which was included as a free add-on for Windows Server 2003 OS product. As long as you own a Windows Server 2003 license, you are entitled to use WSS. MOSS, on the other hand, is a completely separate product built on top of WSS with a separate paid licensing structure. MOSS 2007 comes in two versions – Standard and Enterprise.
Click here to find the difference between MOSS and WSS.
The benefits of Using SharePoint
SharePoint solves four main problems:
- As companies grow so does the amount of their files. It soon becomes difficult to keep track of the multiplying documents and their locations. SharePoint overcomes this by allowing you to store and locate your files in one central respository site, allowing easy access to all team members. Files can also be located through company wide searches of your SharePoint enterprise portal.
- Make better business decisions, be more productive by enabling people to find, use and share information quickly, easily and securely using the search, share and collobrate features in SharePoint.
- Today’s work occurs over multiple locations, whether it is in different countries, office locations, separate departments or at your home office. SharePoint enables teams and individuals to connect and collaborate together regardless of where they are located.
- It’s difficult and time consuming to create and maintain sites. SharePoint allows anyone to create sites for use within their company’s Intranet, as they are needed, whether they are departmental sites, document libraries, meetings sites, survey sites, or discussion boards.
About the Author
David Liong is an IT Consultant, who provides customer support, mentoring, websites development and deployment of intranet, extranet and portal websites. Did you find this article helpful? Get more FREE information at =>
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