| Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is an integrated | | | | management tool |
| suite of server capabilities that can help improve | | | | - Provides easy interface to share and collaborate on |
| organizational effectiveness by providing | | | | documents to achieve focused goals |
| comprehensive content management and enterprise | | | | - Document content types provide template based |
| search, accelerating shared business processes, and | | | | creation of documents right from the SharePoint |
| facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for | | | | interface. |
| better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 | | | | 2. SharePoint as an Extranet Platform |
| supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications | | | | The following are the factors that make SharePoint an |
| across an enterprise within one integrated platform, | | | | ideal platform for implementing an Extranet in your |
| instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. | | | | organization: |
| Additionally, this collaboration and content management | | | | Secure Access |
| server provides IT professionals and developers with | | | | - SharePoint can be easily configured to provide |
| the platform and tools they need for server | | | | secure access to the extranet to the external users |
| administration, application extensibility, and | | | | like customers, partners, vendors etc. |
| interoperability. | | | | - With support for multiple authentication providers, the |
| SharePoint as a Platform for Intranets, Extranets and | | | | external users profile information can be stored in |
| Internet sites | | | | separate database, and can be managed separately |
| 1. Share Point as an Intranet Platform: | | | | Extending the Enterprise |
| The following are the features that make SharePoint | | | | - With the intranet and the extranet implemented using |
| an ideal platform for implementing an intranet website. | | | | Microsoft SharePoint, communication between the |
| Collaboration | | | | internal and external users of the organization is |
| - SharePoint by default is an Collaboration platform | | | | delivered in a seamless manner. |
| aimed at improving the collaboration and | | | | - Only a subset of information from the intranet that is |
| communication between the internal users of the | | | | pertinent to a given customer, partner, vendor etc. can |
| organization. | | | | be published to the extranet to provide up to date |
| - Provides out of the box collaboration features like | | | | information to both the internal and external users of |
| tasks, issues, surveys, discussions etc. that can be | | | | the organization. |
| quickly setup and be used to publish and share | | | | - With the workflow engine being the same for the |
| information across the intranet. | | | | intranet and extranet implementation, workflows can |
| Search | | | | be extended to automate the processes that are |
| - The inbuilt search capabilities provide a quick and | | | | carried out between the two implementations. |
| easy method that can be used to find information | | | | - With a single platform implementation for the intranets |
| residing throughout the portal without additional | | | | and the extranets, SharePoint truly extends the |
| configurations. | | | | enterprise to include not only the internal users, but also |
| - Its extensibility features allow the search to be | | | | the external users of the enterprise under a single |
| customized to suit the organizations information | | | | umbrella. |
| targeting requirements. | | | | 3. SharePoint as an Internet Web Site: |
| - Provides inbuilt crawling and indexing capabilities, | | | | The following features make SharePoint the ideal |
| provide search results in very less amount of time. | | | | platform for implementing your organization's internet |
| Self Service | | | | sites |
| - SharePoint as defined by its characteristics is a self | | | | Site Customization and Branding |
| service platform | | | | - SharePoint provides a build once, use many times |
| - Users can easily create and publish information, as | | | | option using ASP.NET Master pages and page layouts |
| well as customize the SharePoint lists, libraries and | | | | - SharePoint Themes allow customizations to change |
| pages according to their preferences | | | | the look and feel of the site to meet your |
| - Tools can include personalized tools or cross | | | | organizations branding requirements |
| departmental tools that can automate the business | | | | Content Management |
| processes across the organization from a single, | | | | - Content authors need not wait for the site |
| central location. | | | | administrators to publish content. |
| Content Management | | | | - Content can be published in a pre defined format, |
| - SharePoint's Web Content Management abilities | | | | requiring no help from the web designers |
| make it possible to differentiate and manage the | | | | - On the screen rich text editors to format the text on |
| different types of content present on the intranet | | | | the fly |
| - Using the content types, SharePoint allows | | | | - Supports standardized look and feel across the web |
| organizations to build the content type framework for | | | | site without much effort |
| the information residing on the intranet and reuse the | | | | - A structured hierarchy makes it easy to maintain and |
| same in different locations throughout the intranet | | | | manage the sites and content on the web site. |
| Document Management | | | | Web Communities |
| - SharePoint provides document management through | | | | - Inbuilt templates for blogs and wikis allow user |
| the document library feature | | | | communities to be created on specific topics on your |
| - The document libraries can be customized to include | | | | web site that can be used as an effective feedback |
| metadata that by default are indexed by the | | | | mechanisms on your solutions and product offerings |
| SharePoint search | | | | Rich Media |
| - Features like document level security, advanced | | | | - SharePoint supports rich media like images, videos, |
| versioning etc. make SharePoint a powerful document | | | | flash files etc. |