Portals and Collaboration

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Content management – define document management policies to control access rights as well as specify retention policies and expiration actions. Store all your documents in central location and allow users to navigate and find relevant information through a consistent mechanism.

Business processes – extend business processes across the organization by deploying forms services and workflows. Form services allow you to collection information both inside and outside the organization and then easily integrate the information into line-of-business systems. Such practices allow you to avoid the problems of manual data entry. Workflows allow you to automate common business activities

Improve business insight – Effectively monitor business drivers and proactively respond to important business events by creating live interactive business intelligence portals. Use Enterprise Search to find content, processes, people, and business data relevant to their specific needs. Use Excel Services to efficiently share one centralized and up-to-date version while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents (such as financial models).

Connect and share knowledge – New knowledge management tools empower employees to create and use people networks, both inside and outside their organizations, so they can connect and share knowledge more quickly and efficiently with other people.

Personalize operations – My Sites provides a totally personalized experience for users, with a dedicated site for each user. Each site can be used to store, present, view, and manage content, information, and applications in a controlled fashion. Each site can also be used to present information about the user, such as skills and roles, colleagues and managers, groups and distribution lists the user belongs to, and documents the user is working on. And each site contains stringent privacy control and enhanced security mechanisms, so that each user can choose how much information to present, and to whom. My Sites can also be fully customized to suit individual requirements.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is the perfect mechanism to integrate with your ERP and CRM solutions to distribute information to the right information to the right people at right time in order for them to make better business decisions.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a subset of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology supported under Windows Server™ 2003 and Windows Server 2008 that enables organizations and business units of all sizes to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to documents and information they need.

Windows SharePoint Services helps organizations by enabling:

• Teams to stay connected and be more productive by providing access to the people, documents, and information they need.
  
• Collaboration solutions to be deployed more easily and integrate with everyday, familiar tools such as Microsoft Office.
  
• IT staff to more easily manage, control, and secure information resources using a highly scalable infrastructure with powerful administration services.
  
• Increased business process efficiency by making it easy to create versatile Web applications and workflow solutions using a cost-effective, highly extensible platform.

Features included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that are not included in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 include:

• Social Networking features
  
• My Sites
  
• Site Directories
  
• User Profiles
  
• Site Manager
  
• Portal or “Enterprise” templates
  
• Search
  
• Knowledge Network/People Search
  
• Business Data Catalog/Business Data Search
  
• Document Workflow
  
• Excel services