SharePoint 2010 Benefits Overview
  • SharePoint 2010 offers enhancements to drive productivity, a scalable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment.
  • SharePoint 2010 provides a robust development platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs.
  • Building products on the SharePoint platform is a proven way to maximize your ability to deliver value and your development investment. SharePoint provides a foundation of building-block features for your custom solution and application that enables you to meet and exceed the business requirements.
  • SharePoint 2010 provides a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
  • SharePoint 2010 boosts employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
  • SharePoint 2010 meets regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
  • SharePoint 2010 effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
  • SharePoint 2010 simplifies organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
  • SharePoint 2010 connects people with information and expertise.
  • SharePoint 2010 accelerates shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
  • SharePoint 2010 shares business data without divulging sensitive information.
  • SharePoint 2010 enables people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.
  • SharePoint 2010 provides a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.


SharePoint Products & Technology

SharePoint Products and Technology provide a foundation for collaboration, business intelligence, enterprise content management, people and personalization services, Enterprise Search, integration of LOB data, and processes.

 

SharePoint Products and Technologies include the following:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.

 

Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that can flex and scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your business. Robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage a high-performance collaboration environment. With a familiar, Web-based interface and close integration with everyday tools including the Microsoft Office system, Windows SharePoint Services is easy to use and can be deployed rapidly.

Collaborate Easily and Effectively

Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information they need to make more informed decisions and get the job done. Enhancements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 make it easier than ever to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information.

Get Started Quickly

As a built-in component of Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services makes it easy for IT departments to implement a dependable, scalable collaboration infrastructure with minimal administrative time and effort. Close integration of Windows SharePoint Services with familiar tools for authoring, publishing, organizing, and finding information, including the Microsoft Office system, helps users get up to speed quickly.

Deploy a Manageable Infrastructure

Deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 increases control over and enhances security of your organization’s data and information resources. Reduce the dependency of business units on your company’s IT department for site provisioning, implementation, backup, and support. Whether you’re a contributor to a team site, a site owner, or a server administrator, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides better administrative controls for managing content, users, and sites so that individuals and teams can operate more efficiently and effectively.

Provide a Foundation for Web-Based Applications

With Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, IT professionals can tailor or extend the Windows SharePoint Services foundation to create new, efficient, Web-based tools and services specific to the organization, department, business process, or industry vertical. Through a highly customizable and extensible platform, companies can tie these new tools and services to existing line-of-business applications, capitalizing on existing IT investments and valuable information stored in back-end systems.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 brings enterprise class collaboration features, enriched user interface, better tram integration features and most of all the ability to interact through SharePoint no matter what browser one is using, the time zone or whether or not one is connected to the Internet all the time.

 

You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data.

SharePoint Workspace Works Offline

The new SharePoint Workspace feature brings the ability to work offline with SharePoint applications, Lists and Libraries. Combined with the new Business Connectivity Services, application migrated to SharePoint - from Lotus Notes – can provide the same offline and replicated user experience that Lotus Notes users are accustomed to. For details please write to us at: Clifford.johnson@visionetsystems.com , or call us at 609-409-1063 x1116

 

Some of the more important highlights of the SharePoint 2010 version are:

  • 64-bit platform offers better performance
  • Better support for Internet facing sites
  • More security features & flexibility in managing permissions
  • Email management for users
  • Faster search
  • More storage options such as SAN, NAS, RAID etc. (currently only SQL)
  • Improved taxonomy management
  • Better Dashboards and reports
  • Records and archiving policies
  • Easy to use templates
  • More commands
  • Microsoft Groove is renamed as ‘SharePoint Workspace Manager’
  • Improved InfoPath form capabilities
  • More workflow types
  • Native support for Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and Opera
  • Better support for Mobile devices
  • Easy migration from SPS2003 and MOSS 2010
  • Snapshot backup and recovery
  • Granular recovery at item level
  • Office Client Ribbon Interface for In-place editing of SharePoint
  • Silver Light Web Parts
  • Business Connectivity Services (MAP backend system with SharePoint Server)
  • Visio Service, Users can publish Visio diagrams on their sites.
  • SharePoint Workspace a smart client for SharePoint. Supports online, offline and Synchronization of data

 

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