SharePoint is a collaboration platform of choice for the enterprise and the Internet. SharePoint provides business users with the tools they need to effectively manage and share information, automate business process, collaborate, and interact with others. In the enterprises the flow of data is normally happens through emails (attaching spreadsheets, important documents etc), sharing files on network folders and keeping the important data on personal computers which will be a big risk of losing data if the computer crashes. So there is no version maintained, backup and recovery, documents management, any methodology to access external data inside the organization.
1. Excellent productivity experience by letting people work together in ways that are most effective for them. Whether through the PC, browser, or mobile phone, SharePoint offers an intuitive and familiar user experience .Enables people to collaborate effectively within their current work context and to find the most relevant people to work with and allow them to work together effectively. Teams can easily share information regardless of location and across company boundaries.
2. Decrease costs with a unified infrastructure that offers enterprise-scale manageability and availability. Whether deployed on-premises or hosted services, SharePoint Server lowers whole cost of ownership by offering an integrated set of features and by allowing enterprises to consolidate their business-productivity solutions. This leads to a reduction in costs related to maintenance, training and infrastructure management.
3. Respond to business needs with dynamic and easily deployed solutions. Whether it’s an end user, a power user or a professional developer, SharePoint Server offers tools and capabilities to design and create business solutions that can be integrated with existing enterprise data, tools, and processes.
While considering SharePoint Server 201 for business-collaboration solutions, there are six major areas to explore:
Communities: The ability to easily access expertise and interact with other people in new and creative ways across the enterprise through both formal and informal networks. Promote sharing with easy social authoring and easily navigate resource with pervasive tagging. Connecting users through enhanced profiles and find better answers via user feedback.
Content: The facilities for the creation, review, publication, and disposal of content, including conforming to defined compliance rules, whether the content exists as traditional documents or as Web pages. Content-management capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010 include document management, records management, and Web-content management.
Search: The capability to enable users to quickly and easily locate relevant content across SharePoint lists, sites and external systems, and other data sources, such as file shares, Web sites, or line-of-business applications.
Insights :The ability to not only rapidly deliver and share information that is critical to the success of the business, but also to turn raw data into actionable conclusions and to drive business results through sharing data-driven analysis.
Composite applications: The ability to quickly create customized solutions without involving corporate IT in each request. At the same time, the IT staff needs the capability to empower business users to create these applications while ensuring the environment’s stability and availability.
So how SharePoint will help on these issues? What is SharePoint? SharePoint is more than a document management tool, a content management tool, or an application that allow users to create collaborative websites. Behind all of this, SharePoint is a new kind of operating system that runs across an entire organization and provides the tools and services that information workers need on a day-to-day basis. It a product from Microsoft, Organizations will always have line-of-business applications, but what about the administrative applications like Access database, Excel spreadsheets, custom .Net application for tracking widget returns ?what about the business data that’s stored in an incalculable number of Word documents and PDF files on desktop PCs and network file shares ? What about the holiday request forms that get filled in and stuck in filing cabinet somewhere? The SharePoint platform provides the tools and technologies to manage all of these processes and all of this data in a single unified manner.
2. Decrease costs with a unified infrastructure that offers enterprise-scale manageability and availability. Whether deployed on-premises or hosted services, SharePoint Server lowers whole cost of ownership by offering an integrated set of features and by allowing enterprises to consolidate their business-productivity solutions. This leads to a reduction in costs related to maintenance, training and infrastructure management.
3. Respond to business needs with dynamic and easily deployed solutions. Whether it’s an end user, a power user or a professional developer, SharePoint Server offers tools and capabilities to design and create business solutions that can be integrated with existing enterprise data, tools, and processes.
While considering SharePoint Server 201 for business-collaboration solutions, there are six major areas to explore:
Sites: SharePoint sites are having rich user experience and capabilities like easy site editing, including theming and branding. Office Ribbon UI(user interface) is used for faster training and adoption, also SharePoint work space is used for Rich offline experience. The basic capabilities required to engage employees, partners and customers in an effective manner, both inside and outside the firewall.
Communities: The ability to easily access expertise and interact with other people in new and creative ways across the enterprise through both formal and informal networks. Promote sharing with easy social authoring and easily navigate resource with pervasive tagging. Connecting users through enhanced profiles and find better answers via user feedback.
Content: The facilities for the creation, review, publication, and disposal of content, including conforming to defined compliance rules, whether the content exists as traditional documents or as Web pages. Content-management capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010 include document management, records management, and Web-content management.
Search: The capability to enable users to quickly and easily locate relevant content across SharePoint lists, sites and external systems, and other data sources, such as file shares, Web sites, or line-of-business applications.
Insights :The ability to not only rapidly deliver and share information that is critical to the success of the business, but also to turn raw data into actionable conclusions and to drive business results through sharing data-driven analysis.
Composite applications: The ability to quickly create customized solutions without involving corporate IT in each request. At the same time, the IT staff needs the capability to empower business users to create these applications while ensuring the environment’s stability and availability.
Versions of SharePoint product
- SharePoint Portal Server 2001
- Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2002)
- SharePoint Portal Server 2003
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Free)
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
