Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Relationships
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
SharePoint Products and Technologies provide enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, and enabling better informed decisions. Using the combined collaboration features of Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007, plus the design and customization capabilities of Office SharePoint Designer 2007, organizations can enable their users to create, manage, and easily build their own SharePoint sites, and enable these sites to be discovered throughout the organization.
How are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services related?
Windows SharePoint Services, a technology in Windows Server, provides a platform for collaboration applications, offering a common framework for document management and a common repository for storing documents of all types. It exposes key Windows Server services like Windows Workflow Services and Windows Rights Management Services.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities built on top of Windows SharePoint Services. Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides information technology professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability. Additionally, IT professionals benefit from one integrated platform that supports intranets, extranets, and Web applications across an enterprise, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems.
For a complete breakdown of the features of Office SharePoint Server 2007, including a comparison with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features, view the product comparison chart (168 KB .xls worksheet).
How is Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 related to both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services?
While Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services provide the technology and platform, Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the tools to tailor SharePoint sites to meet specific business needs. With Office SharePoint Designer 2007, organizations can deliver compelling SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools without having to write or deploy code on the server.