CollaborationEmpower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces | Microsoft delivers a best-of-breed collaborative infrastructure that gives end users the tools to easily create their own workspaces and share assets across teams, departments, and organizations while maintaining IT control. | Connect Organizations Through Portals | Microsoft will help bring the full insight and data of the organization to the right people at the right time by making it easy to connect people with line-of-business data, experts, and business processes across the organization. | Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools | Microsoft gives organizations the tools to deliver a broad set of social computing capabilities within their existing workspace and portal infrastructure, so end users can more easily harness the collective intelligence of the organization. | Reduce Cost and Complexity for IT | The Microsoft collaboration infrastructure leverages existing investments, is extensible, and interoperates with other systems, so organizations can maintain a lower cost of ownership and more easily meet business demands by building a single infrastructure. |
PortalsConnect your people to information and expertise | Quick, easy access to critical information and expertise means better decisions and more rigorous execution. Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a comprehensive and highly scalable portal framework for building internal and external Web sites, with built-in social networking technologies. | Connect your people to key business applications | Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a comprehensive application development and integration framework for building highly customized applications and assembling composite applications from existing systems. | Connect your people to role-specific resources | Personalized information delivery, such as audience targeting features and My Sites, increases the relevance and value of information. |
Enterprise SearchBuilt for the enterprise |
In Office SharePoint Server 2007, search results are delivered quickly and relevance is tuned for enterprise and line-of-business data. | Unlock data and expertise | Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides out-of-the-box search for common enterprise repositories and file types as well as for people and experts. | Integrated user experience | Enterprise search functionality is integrated with all the features of SharePoint Server 2007 and can be integrated with other 2007 Office system products to help users easily find, use, and share information and increase productivity. |
Enterprise Content ManagementManage diverse content | The document management capabilities in the Microsoft integrated ECM solution can help organizations consolidate diverse content from multiple file shares and personal drives into a centrally managed repository with consistent categorization. | Satisfy compliance and legal requirements | The Microsoft ECM solution also includes integrated records management capabilities that give organizations the capability to store and protect business records in their final state. | Efficiently manage multiple Web sites | Integrated Web content management capabilities enable people to publish Web content with an easy-to-use content authoring tool and a built-in approval process.
Streamline business processes The Microsoft ECM solution enables businesses to streamline content-driven, collaborative business processes by providing the tools and platform for automating the tasks of these processes. |
Business Process and FormsBrowser-based forms with InfoPath Forms Services | InfoPath Forms Services, which is part of Office SharePoint Server 2007, extends your reach to organizations that do not use Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 by allowing you to fill out forms in a common browser or even a HTML-enabled mobile device. | Integrated workflow and document information panel | With Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can initiate and interact with workflows right from within your Microsoft Office application. You can also collect and validate important document metadata via the document information panel. | Custom workflow design | Office SharePoint Designer 2007 makes it easy to add business logic to sophisticated no-code composite applications with the rules-based Workflow Designer. |
Business IntelligenceMicrosoft Office Excel-based Business Intelligence | Excel Services, part of Office SharePoint Server 2007, extend the capabilities of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by allowing broad sharing of spreadsheets, improved manageability and security and the ability to re-use spreadsheet models using a scalable server-based calculation service and interactive Web-based user interface. | Dashboards and Report Center | Create interactive business intelligence (BI) dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built in Web Parts.
| Business data integration and discovery | Seamlessly integrate external data into your applications using the Business Data Catalog (BDC) to create a foundation for business intelligence search. |
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