What is SharePoint?
SharePoint is a family of products from Microsoft that enables organizations to have one stop solutions for collaboration, content management, business processes and portal development.
SharePoint Family
The SharePoint family consists of:
1. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS): WSS is a free add-on to the windows server.
2. Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS): MOSS or SharePoint 2007 is a paid component of the Microsoft Office server suite.
3. Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD): SPD is a HTML editor aimed at editing SharePoint sites and end-user work flows for WSS sites.
SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)
Components of SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)
The components of SharePoint 2007 are:
1. Portal:
The features of Portal component are:
a. Enterprise Portal Template
b. Site Directory
c. My site
d. Social Networking
e. Privacy Control
2. Search:
The features of Search component are:
a. Enterprise Scalability
b. Contextual Relevance
c. People and Business Data Search
d. Collaboration
3. Content Management:
The features of Content Management component are:
a. Integrated Document Management
b. Records Management
c. Web Content Management
4. Business Forms:
The features of Business Forms component are:
a. Web forms based front ends
b. Line-of-business actions
c. Pluggable Single Sing-On (SSO)
d. Collaboration
5. Business Intelligence (BI):
The features of Business Intelligence component are:
a. Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualizations
b. Report Center
c. BI Web Parts
d. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and dashboards
Benefits or Gains
Some of the benefits of Windows SharePoint Services are:
1. Easy-to-use collaborative tool that increases team productivity.
2. Ensure content integration
3. Ease to secure business information
4. Advanced file sharing with robust capabilities
5. Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources
6. Cost effective foundation for web-based applications
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