| Author: Sachin Kumar 12 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 2 |
What is SharePoint?
SharePoint is an enterprise information portal, from Microsoft, that can be configured to run Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows people, teams and expertise to connect and collaborate. A SharePoint enterprise portal is composed of both SharePoint Portal and Windows SharePoint Services, with SharePoint being built upon WSS. WSS is typically used by small teams, projects and companies. SharePoint Server is designed for individuals, teams and projects within a medium to large company wide enterprise portal.
Some SharePoint facts
• SharePoint is the fastest-growing product in the history of Microsoft
• Over 75 million licenses of SharePoint have been sold worldwide
• SharePoint is listed, by Forrester, as the number 1 portal product
• SharePoint is positioned as a leader within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals products
• Over 400 case studies have been published on SharePoint
Why should you use SharePoint?
SharePoint solves four main problems:
• As companies grow so does the amount of their files. It soon becomes difficult to keep track of the multiplying documents and their locations. SharePoint overcomes this by allowing you to store and locate your files in a central site. Files can also be located through company wide searches of your SharePoint enterprise portal.
• Sharing work files through email is a cumbersome process. SharePoint eliminates this by allowing files to be stored in one location, allowing easy access to all team members.
• Today’s work occurs over multiple locations, whether it is in different countries, office locations, separate departments or at your home office. SharePoint enables teams and individuals to connect and collaborate together regardless of where they are located.
• It’s difficult and time consuming to create and maintain sites. SharePoint allows anyone to create sites for use within their company’s Intranet, as they are needed, whether they are departmental sites, document libraries, meetings sites, survey sites, or discussion boards.
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| Author: Shabir Hakim [Sopore] 12 May 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 |
Hi
The very best and True definetion for sharepoint is that it is product developed by microsoft for just sharing documents across differnet locations,don't you think it was very difficult to share such a huge information across.it is now easy to transfer knowledge documents across different locations,Apart from it we can create website or webapplication by just using three to four mouse clicks
In reality,it is beautiful product and microsoft has developed keeping even managers in considerations,because it is now possible for any staff to create web application or website by using some clicks.
Regards
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| Author: Ashwini Rupert 13 May 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 2 |
Hi,
SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform from Microsoft. It can be used to host web sites that can be used to access shared workspaces and documents, as well as specialized applications such as wikis, blogs and many other forms of applications, from within a browser. SharePoint functionality is exposed as web parts, such as a task list or discussion pane. These web parts are composed into web pages, which are then hosted in the SharePoint portal. SharePoint sites are actually ASP.NET 2.0 applications, which are served using IIS and use a SQL Server database as data storage backend.
Regards,
Ashwini Rupert
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| Author: Tariq Younas 24 May 2008 | Member Level: Silver | Rating: Points: 2 |
The core target of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) is to aggregate disparate (Different but separate applications) information, events, processes and enterprise services into a unified single view without to open multiple applications and cut and paste information across multiple screens.
In MOSS 2007 these composite applications are based on the concept of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
MOSS 2007 framework helps you develop components as distributed, reusable business services. MOSS 2007 split into small applications in small pieces.
MOSS 2007 is basically superstructure who represents the high-level integration of users, one-stop shop form information, managing interactions between people, and line-of-business (LOB) data within organization and cross enterprises.
MOSS 2007 based on SOA framework that is driven by standard XML/ Web services.
It provides a window that connects people, processes, and information to create a unique & rich end user experience. For example, during a natural disaster, it can provide critical information to coordinate a response effort, monitoring traffic patterns, delivering supplies, dispatching resources, and aggregating information to present operational insight. In a manufacturing setting, you might use it to monitor inventory levels and assembly processes up and down a supply chain.
It’s an excellent aggregation point for all of these types of situations.
MOSS 2007 is point of collaboration & contents sharing.
For example, SharePoint Portal includes workspace to help loan officers find, organize, and share information so they can process loans more efficiently. These workspaces used to be very limited in their reach, which resulted in a proliferation of mediums to support discrete processes.
A mortgage broker might use a file system to store documents, e-mail to deliver loan applications to customers, a Web site to gather additional customer information, and a spreadsheet to monitor the loan approval process.
MOSS 2007 can unify all these tasks and offer collaboration tools to streamline the loan approval workflow. Loan officers will then have a single place to access and modify documents, check documents in and out of a repository, and work collaboratively to process loans, all without having to use multiple interface mechanisms.
So, MOSS 2007 become more process-centric, they serve as clearinghouses for managing multiple activities in multiple manners.
Regards,
Tariq Younas
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| Author: Santhi 03 Nov 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 6 |
To help team to getting desired results clear communication and collaboration needed. Solution for this is SharePoint product.
Working together as a team by sharing information, documents and ideas to accomplish goals. By default SharePoint site contains components like Calendar, Announcements, and Links. Document Library used to share and manage documents through the use of versioning. Discussion board acts as a internal news board or message board.
3 types of permissions:
Owner having Full control, here owner means administrator
Members having contributed permissions
Visitors only have read permissions.
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