Microsoft Sharepoint

What is Microsoft Sharepoint?

For the uninitiated, SharePoint is an enterprise information portal provided by Microsoft that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet portal solutions. It allows people, teams and expertise to connect, disseminate information and collaborate across geographical and multi-location based organisations.

Key Benefits of Sharepoint include:

• Provision of a simple and stable user experience
• Aids employee productivity by streamlining everyday business activities
• Simplifies organisation-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems
• Provides a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet and Internet applications across the organisation or enterprise
• Provides a cost-effective foundation for building Web-based applications

SharePoint can be fully integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience. This tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, aids the deployment of services and facilitates product adoption across the organisation.

SharePoint helps to complete document review and approval, issue tracking, signature collection without any coding. You can initiate, track and report common business activities.

Connect people with information and expertise. Users can also create personalised views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections. They can share business data without disclosing sensitive information.

Office SharePoint Server is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments. Windows SharePoint Services displays a common framework for document management and collaboration from which flexible Web applications and Internet sites, specific to an organisation needs can be build.

Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server expands all of the stated above capabilities further to offer enterprise-wide functionality for records management, search, workflows, portals, personalised sites, and more