What Sharepoint can do?
Microsoft® Windows SharePoint Services is perfect for public or private use, as an intranet or extranet. Everything you need to build your website in one package with no programming required. The ultimate goal of Sharepoint is to enhance communication and collaboration within an organization and increase the productivity of its workforce.
SharePoint sites capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents and facilitate team participation in surveys, discussions, and shared document collaboration. Site content is accessible from a Web browser and so you are never away from your office, anywhere in the world. The document collaboration features allow easy check in, check out, and document version control. SharePoint seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office applications
With Sharepoint you can collaborate with team members across town, across the country or with suppliers overseas. Compare notes, share schedules and work together on virtually any type of file. You can access critical documents from any web browser. The SharePoint server also makes it easy to launch and maintain intranets, web sites, bulletin boards, and picture libraries.
Team Collaboration
Sharepoint sites provide a central place for people to share ideas, information and documents. Members of team can participate in discussions, blogs, wiki and surveys. The site content is accessible from any browser without any new tool. The document collaboration feature built into Sharepoint allows for easy check in and checkout of documents of any type.
Team Communication
Sharepoint site members can communicate easily through email or instant messenger. Users can also sign up for email alerts when information is created or changed. Administrators can setup announcements when they want broadcast information across the organization.
Streamline Business Process
Stream line every day business process by using electronic forms and out of the box Sharepoint workflow. Users can instigate, track and participate in workflows using familiar applications such as Microsoft office, email, web browser etc. Workflows can be used for common business activities such as document review, approval etc.
Document Management
With Sharepoint all business documents can be stored in one central location and users will have a consistent interface to navigate and search them. You can store documents of all type such as word, excel, pdf etc. Access polices can be set at per document level or at a library level so that information is shared only on a need to know basis.
Content Management
Sharepoint provides out of the box tools for easily creating and publishing content. Master pages, Site templates and themes support reusable mechanism for consistency. Tools such as Sharepoint designer can be used to customize the sites. Furthermore built in Sharepoint functionality can be extended with web parts.
WSS links
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MOSS links
MOSS demo
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