Microsoft Sharepoint and it's Uses

Microsoft SharePoint is a content management system designed to organize company information into a simple, centralized location. It is a server managed repository, that's web enabled for users to organize, manage, search and collaborate. Formal change management is typically embedded in the "check-in; check out" process to monitor, protect and control any and all changes. SharePoint, on the other hand, was designed to create an environment where workers can easily control data without being bound by these tight constraints. It's accessible from a variety of mobile communication tools in addition to direct company intranet access.

What is a SharePoint site?
A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. A SharePoint site is a tool for team efforts, just like a telephone is a tool for communication, or a meeting is a tool for decision making. A SharePoint site helps groups of people, whether working teams or social groups, exchange information and work together. Members of the site can contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment or contribute to other people's.
SharePoint is found in real world applications such as:

• Coordinating Projects,Calendars and Schedules


• Discussing Ideas and reviewing documents or Proposals


• Sharing Information and keeping in touch with other people

The underlying idea is to increase workers abilities to make well informed business decisions with the most current data available. Originally lacking in user acceptance, Microsoft recently tried increasing SharePoint's popularity by marrying it with Unity. Unity is known for specializing in back-end control systems and supplying its users with the latest networking tools. Unity is now the collaborative environment built on top of MS SharePoint Server's .NET application. SharePoint Unity is the new wave, which enables users to access their information over a standard web browser. It combines parts of the popular social networking scenes found in MySpace and Facebook with the capabilities of a corporate collaborative platform.
SharePoint's most notable features come from Unity's Web 2.0 foundation, offering:

• Social Bookmarking


• RSS


• Tag Clouds


• Blogs

Windows SharePoint Server Support - Is it Really Worth?

You can use Windows Share Point Services as a development platform for creating collaboration and information-sharing applications. Every organization let it be a Small, Medium Or Big needs it in as of in the business competitiveness world. In a business environment frequent information sharing is needed among the management level and for such kind of scenarios Microsoft came up with an idea of "Share point Server". With a share point configured, user never have to bother about connecting to a network. They can share and save there data mutually on a platform which is accessible commonly among the organizational structure. Here are some reason for a using share point.

1 Create a Complete View of Your Business Access

Microsoft Office Share Point Server 2003. Single Sign On and built in Microsoft Server and application connector integration enable IT Professionals to integrate. You can find and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects. Management systems, Outlook, file shares and web sites at the same time. 2.Put Relevant Information at Your Fingertips

Microsoft Office Share Point Portal Server 2003 enables you to be more productive by giving you immediate access to up-to-date. Single sign on and personalization services enable you to not only access applications through the portal; Share Point Portal Server provides direct access to those sections of the application you are most interested in, without having to remember your password.

3.Share Knowledge Across the Organization

Share Point Portal Server makes sure it easy for Business purpose, As teams and individuals to contribute contents to the portal. Business Units can integrate their Share Point Teams can easily make the content in their Microsoft Windows Share Point Services sites discoverable through the portal through browsing or searching. And users can publish documents and Best Practices.

4.Find and Leverage Your Organization's Intellectual Capital

Share Point lets you locate documents, project plans and Best Practices in file sharing, Exchange Public Folders in Windows. Share Point Services sites and databases. Create documents in Front Page and show reports using a live XML-based data connection. You can find more than just documents and websites; Share Point Portal Server provides access to the people and teams that contribute knowledge to your organization. Share Point sites so you can investigate other contributions from the experts.

5.Find, Aggregate and Provision Share Point Sites

Microsoft Office Share Point Portal Server 2003 utilizes Windows Share Point Services sites to create portal pages for people, information, and organizations. capabilities of Windows Share Point Services sites, enabling you to organize, manage and provision Share Point

Addition Feature of windows Share Point services,Share point Portal server include the following Features:

* News and topics
* My Site, with personal and public views.
* Information targeted to specific audiences
* Powerful indexing and searching across file shares,Web servers web servers, Exchange Public folders,lotus Notes, and share point site.
*Alerts that notify you when changes are made to relevant information documents, or applications
* Single sign on for enterprise application integration.
* Integration with Microsoft Biz talk server.

Note: All feature of Windows Share Point services are available in share point port server 2003.