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