Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is built on the concept of making the Information management more flexible and secure. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a platform to create Portals and maintain them. It gives your eco-system a chance to connect with the process and information that enable them to take better decision and bring better results. It keeps the eco-system connected with information, process, key business applications, role-specific resources and valued information. Enterprise Portals work as a single platform that allows all the employees, partners, and vendors etc to share the information and work as a group for one common motive-the growth of the company.
The following features make the use of SharePoint Server for Portal Development inescapable:
- Personalization
- User Profiles
- Web parts
- Site Structure and Content
- Navigation
- Integration with ms office
It is built on the top of the technologies in Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 that can offer the capabilities of Personalization to the organization.
SharePoint Server allows the teams of employees, partners, and suppliers etc to work together effectively. It allows them to communicate, collaborate, find organizational resources, create tasks, content, workflow and share all the important information through the use of wikis and/or blogs. It offers a common platform where all the people related to the organization can share the information and make the best use of collective intellect. The Microsoft collaborative infrastructure enables to create team sites and share documents which need to be collaborated within and beyond the boundaries of the organization.
The following are the basic benefits of Microsoft SharePoint collaboration vision:
- Provides a collaborative infrastructure that keeps people connected and informed.
- Makes it easy for people related to organization to connect with data and business process
- Offers chance to stay connected through Portals
- Manages the document life cycle with integrated ECM
- Gives the tools to deliver a set of social computing capabilities that enables the users to take maximum advantage of the intelligence of organization
Business Intelligence with SharePoint Server offers a platform where the information workers can access the latest information, integrate the data from various sources and make the informed business decision. For large organizations it is the most challenging task to enable the workers to share business information and access it whenever it is needed. Microsoft Business Intelligence with SharePoint server supports all the facets of decision making, integrating all the data. Office SharePoint Server offers few of the tools that help making it possible to gather information from different sources and present it to make the best decision. Office SharePoint Server can be integrated with the applications like SAP, Siebel and Microsoft SQL 2005 that serves complete Business Intelligence solutions. To encapsulate, with BI people can get up-to-date information whether it's on the desktop or over the Web and make appropriate decisions.
Few of the empowering BI features of SharePoint Server are:
- Business Data Catalogue: A newly added feature of Business Data Catalog can provide built-in support for retrieving and displaying data from databases and Web services like SAP, Siebel, and Microsoft SQL server 2005.
- Dashboard and Report Center: The Report Center site includes a BI portal, and it underscores the dashboard capabilities of SharePoint Server. Dashboard is a web part page that enables organizational people to share and access the information, worksheet and data.
- Excel Reporting: Excel is a widely used tool for reporting and the features like the broad sharing of workbooks, improved manageability and security, and interactive web based user interface broadens its capabilities.
The strategies to manage, store, preserve, edit and share the content and documents are called Enterprise Content Management. Due to technical advancements it has become even easier to create documents, presentations, web pages and spreadsheets for organizations and so they can now generate plenty of content. But to manage and harness this content has become the biggest challenge for them.
Enterprise Content Management from MS SharePoint Server is the key element that can help the organizations to manage their plethora of content in a proper way.
It offers solutions for:
- Document management
- Record management
- Web content management
- Forms solutions
ECM of Microsoft SharePoint Server facilitates the organization to keep all the data protected and managed which can be used when and where it is needed. ECM of SharePoint offers ease to manage the content to all the employees of organization integrating with familiar tools like the Microsoft Office system. In short it provides the capability to manage the entire lifecycle of content starting from its creation to management to expiration.
Microsoft Enterprise Content Management Solutions that helps you to:
- Manage diverse content
- Protect business records
- Manage multiple websites
- Streamline business process
With the ECM Solutions you can save your documents, improve legal compliance, protect your chief information, publish the content easily and manage it.
Are you feeling loss of productivity even with all the information and documents available in organization, for your employees? When there is overload of information, it becomes difficult and time consuming to find the right information what one is looking for. At that point of time SharePoint Server can serve the best solutions due to its enterprise search feature. For desktop search we have the facility of Windows Desktop Search but what if the information is locked somewhere in portals or in shares! Enterprise Search Solution of SharePoint Server combines desktop Search as well as intranet search. It caters the exact information what your employees search for, in the minimal time and with the maximum efficiency. Wherever your data is saved, enterprise search tool can find it out and present to the employee who is searching for it.
Enterprise Search of SharePoint Server can work integrating with SharePoint sites, Web Parts, SharePoint lists, people profiles, and more. This makes it possible for information worker to get the information they need, swiftly. The Enterprise Search Solution enhances your employees’ productivity as well as provides wide scope to maximize the data of the organization.
Approve, review and archive- Microsoft SharePoint Server gives the ready to use templates for this process. The main motive of SharePoint Server is to facilitate you to create, maintain, and analyze custom workflows that can streamline your business processes. Using the InfoPath Forms Service technology in Office SharePoint Server, you can create browser-based forms and incorporate the data from the organizations that do not use MS Office InfoPath.
See how SharePoint Server provides ease to the users with its Business Processes and Forms feature:
- Its built-in collaborative workflow templates enable to streamline approval, review, and archiving processes.
- It streamlines your business process applications through InfoPath forms, which congregate and validate the data that drives your workflows.
- It makes easier for the employees to submit their reports to their concerned departments.
- It increases the efficiency of the employees as they can see the status of approval.
- It enables you to extend your reach to organizations that don’t use InfoPath Forms Service Technology.
SharePoint Server caters ready to use workflows for some of the most common business processes. Moreover, with SharePoint you can design custom workflows including the steps and processes you wish.
