Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Whitepaper Summary
The goal of this whitepaper is to offer knowledge and understanding
to
evaluate Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Below is a summary of the
whitepaper.
You can request the full 40 page whitepaper by e-mailing
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Introduction
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organisations gain better
control and insight over their content, streamline their business
processes, and access and share information. In
addition, Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 gives IT professionals the tools
they need for server administration and application extensibility
and interoperability.
Product Overview
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server
applications that improves organisational effectiveness by
providing comprehensive control over electronic content;
accelerating shared business processes; and facilitating
better-informed decisions and information-sharing across
boundaries.
Evaluate Manage and Repurpose Your Information Assets
Get more value from your content by providing comprehensive control
over the storage, security, distribution, reuse, and management of
documents and other electronic content such as Web pages, PDF
files, and e-mail messages.
- Control documents through detailed, extensible policy
management
- Centrally store, manage, and access documents across the
enterprise
- Simplify content reuse and information
repurposing
Accelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes
Make business process initiation, participation, tracking, and
reporting easy and flexible by providing a simple, consistent user
experience through familiar client applications.
- Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business
activities
- Extend business processes across the organisation
- Focus on strategic, value-added tasks instead of redundant
activities
Make Better-Informed Decisions through Centralised Access to
Information
Provide a single, integrated location where employees can
efficiently find organisational resources, access corporate
knowledge, and leverage business insight in order to make
better-informed decisions.
- Present business-critical information in one central
location
- Quickly connect people and information
- Unlock business data
- Leverage your unstructured business networks to drive better
decisions
- Work when and where you want
Share Business Information Within and Outside Your
Organisation
Simplify and help boost the security and efficiency of
collaboration and knowledge sharing within and across
organisational boundaries.
- Broadly share business data while helping to protect sensitive
information
- Enhance customer and partner relationships
- Effectively manage and share business insight
Use a Single, Integrated Platform to Manage Intranet, Extranet, and
Internet Applications
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a scalable enterprise
platform that can grow with your business without the need for
costly add-ons. IT staff can spend more time on the strategic tasks
only they can perform and help drive enhanced business value and
positive change throughout your organisation.
- Boost employee productivity through innovative, enterprise-wide
solutions
- Simplify site staging and content deployment
- Get the tools you need to ease deployment, management, and
system administration
Top 10 Benefits
Here are the top 10
ways Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your
organisation:Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user
experience.
- Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business
activities.
- Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control
over content.
- Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased
business value.
- Simplify organisation-wide access to structured and
unstructured information across disparate systems.
- Connect people with information and expertise.
- Accelerate business processes and maintain control of your
electronic forms environment.
- Share business data while preserving its consistency and
helping to protect sensitive information.
- Facilitate better-informed decisions by presenting
business-critical information in one central location.
- Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet,
extranet, and Internet applications across the
enterprise.
Features at a Glance
Features at a Glance provides information that will help you
understand, describe, and evaluate the new and enhanced features of
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Portal
The portal components
of Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 include features that are
especially useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise
intranet portals, corporate Internet presence Web sites, and
divisional portal sites.
Content Management
With the new document management components of
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Products and
Technologies no longer simply provide a platform for document
collaboration. Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 becomes a full-featured
solution for managing business documents.
Every organisation, whether privately held, publicly traded, or
not-for-profit, needs a disciplined approach to record
keeping. Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 introduces a new set of features
for creating and supporting formal records management capabilities
in your organisation.
A key goal for
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is the complete integration
of Microsoft Content Management
Server functionality, and further significant enhancement of
the Web content management functionality, with the collaboration,
portal, search, document management, and records management
features of the new
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Search
The new features provide a consistent and familiar search
experience, increased relevance of search results, new functions to
search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data
in LOB applications, and improved manageability and
extensibility.
Business Processes
Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 helps organisations streamline
forms-driven business processes with easy-to-use, intelligent,
XML-based electronic forms that integrate smoothly with existing
systems.
Business Intelligence
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organisations provide
business intelligence (BI) capabilities to every employee, so they
can share, control, and reuse business information in order to make
better business decisions.
Architectural Overview
This section describes the key components of
Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007, how they relate to each other
and to the platform, and collaboration services provided by Windows
SharePoint Services (version3).
- Operating System and Database Services
- Windows SharePoint Services
- Office SharePoint Server 2007: Applications and
Services
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