The solution leverages Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and eLearning Portal as a base for Global online learning environment, which provides scalable platform for e-learning, supporting tens of thousands users. The environment supports automatic tests, integrated storage of training materials, and access to e-shop with online courses as well as to online dean’s office.

SharePoint Server 2007 is the industry standard for creating convenient, easy-to-use enterprise portals that are compatible with other corporate software. TNK-BP's SharePoint portal supports the work of 18,000 users across twenty Russian regions, making it the largest such portal in Russia.

When the Egyptian government wanted to build a tourism portal for the City of Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, it turned to Microsoft Services for expert assistance. Microsoft Services coordinated a diverse project team, including cultural experts from the University of Cairo and local IT partners, to create a comprehensive, virtual tourist destination. The portal takes advantage of the latest Microsoft products and technologies to deliver sophisticated, interactive multimedia experiences, including a customized mapping service that details lodging, recreation, and amenities in Luxor. In addition, Microsoft Services transferred the skills needed to create and maintain the portal to local IT partners. Now, the City of Luxor anticipates capturing a greater share of tourism and investment in the region.

To give fans the ultimate preview of its Stargate Universe television series, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) worked with Microsoft to create a three-dimensional virtual tour of the show’s set. The team used Microsoft® Photosynth™ to stitch together hundreds of digital images of the set and then embedded the synths in a rich Internet application built on Microsoft Silverlight™. Now, visitors to the Stargate Web site can virtually explore every corner of the 1,000-year-old spaceship Destiny, the backdrop for the upcoming series. MGM expects that the new application will strengthen its connection to existing fans and extend the reach of the series to new audiences.

Deployment of Corporate Portal, based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 platform allows to build integrated information space of the holding, which provides single entry point to corporate information and effective execution of key business processes. Due to developing and automating formalized processes in HR dept, terms of implementation of key corporate procedures has been reduced more than four times.

The Dept. of Social and Family Affairs in Ireland promotes a caring society by providing income and other supports to enable active participation in society, promote social inclusion, and support families. It wanted to use the reach and immediacy of Internet communications to raise public awareness of its mandate and provide secure e-government services. To accomplish these goals, the Department had to upgrade its HTML-based Web site and streamline its content publication processes. It chose Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to support its portal and launched www.welfare.ie to immediate acclaim. The site boasts 50 percent more content, improved search, intuitive navigation, and new online services. It won an Irish eGovernment accessibility award. The new portal is supported by a streamlined Web publication process that significantly reduced the time required for site updates.

To ensure that 1C-Beatrix's (1С-Битрикс) CMS application, "Website Management System ("Управление сайтом") works 100% reliably on the Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 platform, the company decided to test their application according to Microsoft requirements. Stellar test results led to the software gaining the status of “Certified for Windows Server 2008,” the first time a PHP application has achieved this standard worldwide.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 made it possible for SkyLink Telecommunciations to achieve its goal of creating an integrated information work space to streamline business processes, increase collaboration between regional branches, and to better optimize the productivity of each employee.

The National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. (NCCI) offers workers compensation insurance information on its custom-built Web portal. However, manual content management processes that required IT involvement hindered NCCI employees’ ability to update content on the portal and keep up with archiving old data. Also, an outdated tool negatively impacted search results. To improve content management for employees and the search experience for any site visitor, NCCI migrated its Web portal to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and used its Web content management and integrated search capabilities. Now employees use Office SharePoint Server 2007 workflows to control content lifecycles, maintaining a pared-down site with timely information that serves visitors who perform more than 800 daily searches.

Little has more than 10 terabytes of data that it needs to search on a regular basis to serve its clients, and thought that a Google appliance was the way to provide that ability—the price, however, was deemed unaffordable. Instead, Little got the search capability it would have gotten from Google, and more, with a technology that it already licensed: enterprise search capability in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. The use of enterprise search helps employees find information that may have been created long before they joined the company, helps the company collaborate more successfully with its clients through the use of searchable extranets, and helps the firm save time worth up to U.S.$1.8 million per year in billings.