Sharepoint

What is Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (often referred to as MOSS) is a web-based collaboration and document management platform that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization can use SharePoint to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.

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.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Capabilities

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

  • Collaboration Allow teams to work together effectively, collaborate on and publish documents, maintain task lists, implement workflows, and share information through the use of wikis and blogs. Receive updates to lists and libraries using RSS, manage projects
  • Portals Create a personal MySite portal to share information with others and personalize the user experience and content of an enterprise Web site based on the user's profile. Encourage internal social networking through a controlled environment.
  • Enterprise Search Quickly and easily find people, expertise, and content in business applications.
  • Enterprise Content Management Create and manage documents, records, and Web content. Target information to specific audiences and control visibility on item, list, or even site level.
  • Business Process and Forms Create workflows and electronic forms to automate and streamline your business processes.
  • Business Intelligence Allow information workers to easily access critical business information, analyze and view data, and publish reports to make more informed decisions.

Integration with 2007 Microsoft Office System

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies in the 2007 Office release. For example, with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you can create a slide library on a SharePoint site that allows other users to pick specific slides for their own presentation and receive notifications and updated versions when the slides have been modified. Take advantage of version history and change approval workflow for all your documents, spreadsheets and contacts by using SharePoint lists and customise workflows to match your business processes. You can also take your document libraries offline by integrating with Outlook, ensuring that the information you need is always to hand.

SharePoint Customisation

Built on Microsoft's ASP.NET platform, SharePoint has been designed with customisation in mind. Whether it's implementing custom styling to achieve a coherent corporate brand identity across an Intranet or Internet site, or document libraries that support metadata important to your business, SharePoint's flexibility makes it a great solution for delivering a comprehensive solution in a comparatively short space of time.
  • Enhance your sites with custom web parts, integrate with different data sources, and work alongside existing applications to drive productivity.
  • Develop custom site templates to rapidly deliver sites that meet your business requirements, making use of SharePoint's web parts and lists to present information in a meaningful way to your audience.
  • Use SharePoint Designer to create and customise your sites and produce rapid results.
  • Create forms using InfoPath 2007 and deploy them to Forms Server to streamline business processes and integrate with custom workflows.

The added advantage of working with Fernhart

As technology partners with Microsoft, Fernhart are experts in the installation and deployment of SharePoint to create innovative, hassle-free solutions for clients. We can also combine SharePoint with other applications, depending on your business requirements. We recently completed a successful SharePoint project for the NHS Confederation - and could do the same for your business.

Talk to Fernhart today about how a SharePoint solution could revolutionise your business.
Call +44 (0) 20 8296 1020.
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