20 Reasons to Choose
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
1. Single
Infrastructure
Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is an integrated suite of easy-to-use
server applications that provides a single platform to manage
intranet, extranet and websites across your
organisation.
2. Office
Integration
MOSS provides seamless
Microsoft Office integration, including taking documents off-line
to complete 2-way Outlook synchronisation covering tasks and
calendaring, among other features.
Read more about Microsoft Office
Integration.
3. Manage Information Assets
Effectively manage and repurpose your information assets. Centrally
store, manage, and access documents across the enterprise. Simplify
content reuse and information repurposing. Control documents
through detailed, extensible policy management.
Read more about Document Management and
Content Management.
4. Improve Team
Productivity
With easy-to-use
collaborative tools, create team workspaces, co-ordinate calendars,
organise documents, and receive important updates through
announcements and alerts.
Read more about Collaborative
Workspaces.
5. Easily Manage
Documents
Document check-out and
check-in to ensure that multiple users are not editing files at the
same time, view revisions to documents to track the editing process
of a document and restore to previous versions. Keep control over
documents using item-level security. Multi-level Recycle bin
functionality included for content recovery.
Read more about Document Management.
6. Manage Alerts
Manage
your alerts, notifications, and RSS. Filtering conditions can
trigger customisable alerts to users. Users participating in a
workflow automatically receive e-mail alerts without subscribing in
advance to workflow notifications. RSS feeds integrated
out-of-the-box into all SharePoint lists.
7.
EnterpriseSearch
The search components in MOSS has been significantly enhanced to
include increased relevance of search results, new functions to
search for people and expertise, and ability to index and search
data in LOB applications, external repositories, shared drives, and
even crawl external websites.
Read more about Enterprise Search.
8. Content Management
The content management capabilities of MOSS provides core document
management functionality with major and minor versioning, check-in
and check-out document locking, and rich descriptive metadata. MOSS
content management facilitates for easier workflow, content
type-based policies, auditing, and role-based-access controls at
the document library, folder, and individual documents, and web
content.
Read more about Content Management.
9. Records
Management
Collecting, managing and
archiving of corporate records made easy. Policies for large-scale
operations can be applied on documents including retention,
expirations, ID labelling, and more. Store e-mails as records and
apply appropriate policies. Reduce costs of retrieving information
for legal discovery.
Read more about Record Management.
10. Business Intelligence
MOSS provides business intelligence capabilities allowing
organisations to share, control and reuse business information to
make better business decisions. Publish spreadsheets to SharePoint
sites, create business intelligence dashboards that include key
performance indicators, and use pre-built web sites optimised for
reporting.
Read more about Business Intelligence.
11. Excel Services
Give
your employees access to real-time and interactive Excel 2007
spreadsheets from a web browser through Excel Services. Maintain
and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version, while
protecting proprietary information such as financial models.
Read more about Business Intelligence.
12. Single Sign-on
Account
credentials are securely stored allowing relevant users to access
secure data enterprise-wide with a single login.
13. Publish Directly from MS
Word
Users can create web content using
MS Word and then submit it for approval and publication. Greatly
reducing the time and cost of administrating websites, intranets
and extranets.
Read more about Content Management.
14. Scalability
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a highly scalable, modular
platform built using the latest .net 2.0 technologies. Every
component of MOSS has been designed to scale as the needs of the
organisation change and grow.
15. Road
Map
Microsoft have a clear road-map for
SharePoint enabling organisations to implement the system in the
confidence that their future needs will be catered for.
16. Accelerate Business
Processes
Accelerate both internal and external shared business processes.
People, content and process interaction, both internally and
externally, can be optimised. Boost employee productivity by
simplifying everyday business activities. Extend business processes
across the organisation. Focus on strategic value-added tasks
instead of redundant activities.
Read more about Workflow and Authoring.
17. Centralise Information
Make better-informed decisions through centralised access to
information. Present business-critical information such as
dashboards, key performance indicators, and reports in one central
location. Quickly connect people and information. Leverage your
unstructured business networks to drive better decisions. Work when
and where you want.
Read more about Business Intelligence.
18. Share Knowledge
Simplify knowledge
sharing within and across organisational boundaries. Automate the
discovery and sharing of knowledge that is not documented with the
Knowledge Network. Allow everyone in the organisation to quickly
locate who knows who and who knows what. Boost the efficiency of
sharing business data while helping to protect sensitive
information. Enhance customer and partner relationship.
19. Aid Compliance
Help
meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over
content. Control and manage sensitive business information and
reduce litigation risk for your organisation. Specify retention and
auditing policies for business records to meet compliance
regulations. All versions of documents are kept with full auditing
and tracking edits and updates.
Read more about Record Management.
20. Reporting Services
The Report
Center is the business intelligence hub in Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007. Build reports to show the key performance
indicators for your organisation and have these automatically
tracked over time. Dashboards can also be created to show a summary
view of key performance and health of your organisation.
Read more about Business Intelligence.