SharePoint Products and Technologies

SharePoint™ Products and Technologies consist of:

Windows SharePoint Services, a Windows Server 2003 technology, is an engine for delivering scalable, manageable, extensible Web sites with document collaboration, information sharing, and team productivity tools.

SharePoint Services' extensibility offerings begin with Web Parts, ASP.NET-based building blocks users can assemble
at runtime into customized pages that meet their specialized needs.  In addition to this, each SharePoint site and its contents are accessible via managed code and Web services, delivering Web sites as programmable objects.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, part of the Microsoft Office System, provides a single point of access to people, team, knowledge, and application resources across the entire enterprise.

SharePoint Portal Server, being built on Windows SharePoint Services, contains additional object models and Web services for user profiling, audience targeting, content categorization, indexing and search, single sign-on to line-of-business applications, and much more.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an intelligent, enterprise portal solution that connects people, teams, and information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a central place for a person to access, manage, share and interact with relevant information, documents, applications and other people. It enables quicker and better decisions, more effective sharing across teams and more streamlined business processes.

The primary goal of SharePoint Portal Server is to aggregate or bring together, in a role and task relevant way, all of the diverse sources of knowledge and information available inside and outside an organization.  This includes connecting people, teams and projects with the knowledge, information and data they’ve created in a way that makes them easy to find, retrieve and re-use in a familiar way.

SharePoint Portal Server provides an advanced set of capabilities (or services) including:

·   Creating, deploying and managing highly customizable corporate intranet, extranet and Internet portal solutions
    for small groups, large business units or entire enterprises with hundreds of thousands of users, tens of thousands
    of sites and millions and millions of documents.

·   Enterprise searching of all of the information in an organization – regardless of whether the information is stored
    on file servers, Web sites, other document storage systems or line-of-business applications.

·   Supporting customizable structures (taxonomies) for creating, organizing and locating all sources of information  within an organization including division and business unit portal sites, team collaboration project Web sites, My Site personal Web sites and other content using a searchable hierarchy of keyword bet bets.

·   Personalized categorization and delivery of portal and other enterprise information and data based on customizable user profiles and organization-defined audiences.

Windows SharePoint Services	SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Scenarios    Collaborating on documents    Sharing team and project-based information    Managing virtual teams	Scenarios    Organize sites across the enterprise    Connect people with people    Connect people with team and project sites    Integrate people with line-of-business processes
Key Features    Presence integration    Document libraries and lists    Versioning, check-in and check-out    Alerts    Web Parts    Shared calendars and discussions    Web site creating and management    Microsoft Office integration	Key Features    Creation of SharePoint sites using Site Directory    (corporate site taxonomy)    Centralized administration of all portal and team sites in an organization    Single-sign on for enterprise applications    Enterprise search for all data and information in the organization
Benefits    Improved personal and team productivity    Re-use of information    Role-based security always in effect    More productive collaborative work environment    Ease of use, deployment and customization	Benefits    Improved enterprise efficiency and effectiveness    More efficient searching and retrieval of information and data from anywhere in the organization    Greater overall productivity resulting from greater re-use and more effective team collaboration