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SharePoint is a core technology of Microsoft designed to be a business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web. Its core capabilities can be summarized as:
- Sites: Intranet, extranet and internet sites for internal and external users to collaborate.
- Communities: Tools that empower people to work together in new ways and understand how they are connected with one another.
- Content: A platform for managing content such as documents and web content throughout its lifecycle.
- Search: Tools that help users find content and people and shorten the distance between them.
- Insights: Dashboards, scorecards, reporting portals, and other tools that help business users make better decisions.
- Composites: A platform for building applications to automate and accelerate business processes linked to other line-of-business applications.
SharePoint also works with and takes advantage of other Microsoft technologies such as: Active Directory, SQL Server, Internet Information Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange, Office Communication Server, and many others.
Windows SharePoint Services
Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services is a Windows Server component designed to address the needs of collaborative teams. With this technology, organizations can quickly deploy team sites, or team portals, that they can use to collaborate on content:
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Authoring, sharing, and managing documents
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Tracking tasks and issues
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Communicating via alerts, announcements, surveys, discussion boards, blogs and wikis
All team documents can be accessed and controlled through the portal: document status can be checked, documents can be checked out and checked back in, and a revision history of the document can be viewed. Windows SharePoint Services is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office. For example, documents can be published and checked in and out from within Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
The portal provides a repository for key project documents, both work-in-process and finished. It replaces sharing folders on network drives and emailing versions of documents back and forth among team members with an easy-to-use location where team members can store and retrieve information.
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