The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise and the Web ^[1]

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products collaboration software provides enterprise-scale capabilities to meet business-critical needs such as managing content and business processes, simplifying how people find and share information across boundaries, and enabling informed decisions.

SharePoint Capabilities

SharePoint Capabilities is divided into 6 categories: Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights and Composites with more than 40 feature areas.

· Sites – A “one-stop-shop” for all your business websites, includes team site for colleagues, extranet site for partners and Internet site for customers, where people can share and publish information using one familiar system.

· Communities – A full set of collaboration tools—from wikis to workflows and team sites to tagging built upon a secure, manageable and scalable platform, establishing an ecosystem over SharePoint Server 2010 that encompass your content, people and learning.

· Content – A comprehensive enterprise content management (ECM) system combining traditional content management, social capabilities, and powerful search.

· Search – A single, cost-effective infrastructure helps your people find the information they need through intranet search, people search, and a platform to build search-driven applications.

· Insights – A business intelligence (BI) solution with powerful features like interactive dashboards and scorecards lets everyone access the business information they need to make good decisions.

· Composites – provides building blocks that you can use to assemble, connect, and configure collaborative business solutions.

SharePoint Benefits

Benefits SharePoint brings to your organization can be expressed as the abilities of:

· Connect and Empower People – Make you people work more productive through faster adoption to with the friendly Office Ribbon user interface, improved collaboration with Office 2010 and a diverse set of capabilities that extends people’s access to resources and allows them to be productive regardless of the tools or devices.

· Cut Costs with a Unified Infrastructure – The consolidation of business productivity solutions onto SharePoint 2010 makes it possible to cut costs with lower training costs, increased IT productivity and cost-effective maintenance.

· Rapidly respond to Business Needs – The ability of creating no-code customization and linking to external line of business applications (CRM, Office, ERP…) enable users to address specific business needs more quickly and more effectively.

SharePoint Architecture

A complete SharePoint 2010 architecture is built up from SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010 and other client applications. Based on SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server is added with a large number of Service Applications to enhance its functionalities. Customers can also integrate their own services or purchase other third-party add-ons. A rich set of client applications allow user to connect and manipulate data with server through these services.