SharePoint

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. SharePoint provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

Expanding Microsoft CRM Capabilities

Use Microsoft SharePoint to share CRM data with customers, partners, and distributors and enable them to submit requests, track status, view information, and see results. SharePoint can also be used internally to store and share business documents and CRM data. SharePoint helps you to create and visualize reports and data through Web-based dashboards and shared workflow.

 

Collaboration and Social Computing

Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs.
  • Empower Teams through collaborative workspaces – create workspaces and share assets across teams, departments and organizations while maintaining IT control
  • Connect Organizations through portals – connect people with line-of-business data, experts and business processes
  • Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools – deliver social computing capabilities within workspaces and portal infrastructure
  • Integrated Infrastructure, existing investments and extensible architectural platform – maintain lower cost of ownership, meet business demands by building a single infrastructure.

Enterprise Content Management

Create and manage documents, records, and Web content using workflow and information rights management.
  • Manage diverse content – consolidate content from multiple file shares and personal drives into a centrally managed repository with consistent categorization
  • Satisfy compliance and legal requirements – integrated records management capabilities give mean companies can store and protect business records
  • Efficiently manage multiple Web sites – publish Web content with an easy-to-use content authoring tool and built-in approval process
  • Streamline business processes – automate the process of managing the content lifecycle from creating to expiration on a single platform:
    • Document management
    • Records management
    • Web content management
    • Forms solutions

Portals

Create personal My Site portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user's profile.
  • Connect your people to information, expertise – quick, easy access means better decisions and more rigorous execution
  • Connect your people to key business applications – consolidated access drives consistent performance of common tasks
  • Connect your people to role-specific resources – personalized information delivery increases relevance and value of information.

Business Process and Forms

Design business forms that are accessible directly in a Web browser and integrate that with databases or other business applications.
  • Browser-based forms – use InfoPath Forms Services to extend your reach by completing forms in a common browser or even an HTML-enabled mobile device.
  • Integrated workflow and document information panel – initiate and interact with workflows from within Microsoft Office client applications, collect and validate document metadata via the information panel.
  • Custom workflow design – use SharePoint Designer to add business logic to sophisticated no-code composite applications easily with the rules-based Workflow Designer.

Enterprise Search

Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
  • Built for the enterprise – search results delivered quickly and relevance is tuned for enterprise and line-of-business data.
  • Unlock data and expertise - out-of-the-box search for common enterprise repositories, file types, people and experts.
  • Integrated user experience - search functionality is integrated with collaboration, portals, content management, forms and business intelligence features; can be integrated with other 2007 Office system products to help users easily find, use, and share information and increase productivity

Business Intelligence

Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.
  • Excel-based Business Intelligence – Excel Services as part of SharePoint extend standard Excel capabilities by allowing broad sharing of spreadsheets, improved manageability, security and the ability to re-use spreadsheet models using a scalable server-based calculation service and interactive Web-based user interface.
  • Dashboards and Report Center – create interactive dashboards that assemble and display information from disparate sources using built in Web Parts such as dynamic key performance indicators, Excel spreadsheets, SQL Server reports and a collection of data connectivity Web Parts to visualize information from back-end line-of-business applications.
  • Accessing and discovering business data – seamlessly connect external data into your applications to create a foundation for business intelligence search.