What is SharePoint?

• An integrated server platform designed to enable collaboration of work forces separated by geography and time, and to assist organizations in organizing and finding the growing amount of critical information

• Connecting people, processes and information
• Intranet, extranet, public web sites

SharePoint Features

Portal

Access your information and applications from a single, secure location.

Includes: Built-in Windows (network) authentication, integration with Active Directory, Single Sign On provider, security trimmed menus, personalization features, etc.

Content Management

Publish web content using intuitive tools and approval controls. 

Includes: Records policies and auditing, publishing infrastructure with templates and content approval workflows, multilingual support, re-usable content, target audiences

Organize and access your documents with a mature, full-featured document management system.

Includes: Check-in/check-out, revision history (change log and restore previous), recycle bin, alerts, retention policies, workflows, full-text search (including contents of documents), content types for categorizing documents using metadata, off-line support via Outlook and Groove,  PowerPoint slide libraries

Collaboration

Enable your employees, departments or teams to collaborate more efficiently through the use of familiar tools.

Includes: Calendars, blogs, wikis, discussion boards, surveys, team sites, My Sites, integration with Outlook/Exchange

Business Processes and Forms

Replace paper forms with regulatory-compliant online forms and workflows.

Includes: Integration with InfoPath forms designer and the .NET Windows Workflow Foundation, out of the box workflows and form templates, XML-based data or integration with web services and relational database systems, centralized forms management, user-friendly forms designer with validation controls

Business Intelligence

Create dashboards to monitor Key Performance Indicators for your organization or to visually analyze information collected from your online forms.

Includes: Report centers with dashboards, Excel Services, KPI tools, integration with SQL Server Reporting Services (similar to Crystal Reports), integration SQL Server Analysis Services for data mining

Enterprise Search

Find the information you are looking for on your portal, file shares, other web sites or from your own core business systems.  Manage crawl and index settings.

Includes: Relevance, best bets, full text and metadata searched, security trimmed

Customization

Brand your portal with your own look and feel. 

Includes: Web designer for simple customizations, download free SharePoint Designer for more complex customizations, master pages, themes, style sheets, templates

Extend your portal to integrate with your core business systems.

Includes: Integration via .NET or web services, integrates with office products including Access and Excel