Highlighted Topics

• Learn more about Social Computing
  SharePoint Server 2007 includes social computing web parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests.

• White paper: Creating business value through better Microsoft collaboration tools
  This whitepaper discusses the "New World of Work" of today's global economy and how the Microsoft collaboration vision can help address the four main areas of business challenges that are critical to effective collaboration.

• White paper: Are your people ready to create winning content?
  The purpose of this white paper is to demonstrate how the 2007 Microsoft Office system goes well beyond content authoring by enabling information workers to simplify and streamline the entire content creation process in today’s global workplace.

• Make the leap: Upgrade to Microsoft collaboration technologies from Lotus Notes
  This page includes links to case studies, analyst reports, white papers, and other resources to help you decide whether it's time you made the transition to upgrade your legacy collaboration solutions to Microsoft collaboration technologies.

• Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  Application Templates are out-of-the-box, custom solutions tailored for specific business processes, such as managing a help desk or tracking a marketing campaign, to help create a more efficient and effective way of working.

• Groove and SharePoint differ, but also work together
  This article explains the difference between Microsoft Office Groove and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as a collaboration tool and the benefits of using the two products together.

Webcasts

Learn more about collaboration solutions from the experts:

• TechNet Podcast: Collaboration in SharePoint Server 2007
  Join us and learn how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization increase productivity by providing a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities, and people-driven processes.

• Momentum: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Templates and SharePoint Server Introduction (Level 100)
  In this webcast, you will get insights and experience of a set of client and server-side supported Application Templates that extend the Windows SharePoint Services platform capabilities as well as facilitate adoption and target deployments in the context of business processes. Learn how these templates can help increase your organization business productivity.

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Analysts' Reviews of Microsoft Collaboration Software

Read what leading industry analysts have to say about the Microsoft collaboration strategy.

• Forrester report: Collaboration trends 2006 to 2007, August 2006
  Read this 2006 research document to see how interest in Microsoft's and other providers' workplace collaboration tools continues to grow.

• The Forrester Wave™: Collaboration platforms, Q2 2006: Microsoft recognized as a leader
  Forrester evaluated five leading collaboration platform vendors across 98 criteria and found Microsoft as a Leader in this market.

• Forrester report: Microsoft scorecard from The Forrester Wave for collaboration platforms
  Microsoft is a Leader in the collaboration platforms market with a suite of products that are part of the Windows Server System and the Microsoft Office System. Microsoft's deep strengths lie in strong security, Information Workplace (IW) readiness, and product road map, but it also has a strong positioning in architecture, administration, executive vision, and strategy. Get Adobe Acrobat Reader

Related News and Reviews

• Microsoft Adds Web 2.0 Enhancements To SharePoint
  June 20, 2007: TechWeb, David Gardner
  Read Gardner's interview with Derek Burney, General Manager of SharePoint Platform & Tools, on the Web 2.0 technologies Microsoft is delivering under the SharePoint platform. The article also references how customers like Hawaiian Airlines and the Body Shop are using SharePoint Server 2007 for their external facing websites.

• Chevron Chooses SharePoint for Collaboration and Search
  May 8, 2007: The Wall Street Journal Online, Pui-Wing Tam
  Oil company Chevron plans to deploy SharePoint Server to help reduce the flood of office documents that raise storage costs and decrease worker productivity. (Subscription required for full article)

• SharePoint Server makes collaboration easier
  April 11, 2007: Network World, Travis Berkley
  "With the release of Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has made some dramatic changes to its popular collaboration software. Our Clear Choice Test of the SharePoint collaboration and content-management server found the new version easier than its predecessor to install and use." (Login required for full article)

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Additional Resources

• Collaboration Help and How-to
  Read articles to learn how to create team sites, share documents, and everything else you need to know to collaborate within and beyond your organizational boundaries.

• Resources for moving to the Microsoft collaboration platform
  Get the technical resources you need to prepare for and deploy a migration from Lotus Notes or to implement a Microsoft collaboration system that coexists with Lotus Notes/Domino.