SharePoint and WSS 3.0 Allow Your Organization to Collaborate, Manage Documents, and Build Websites All in One Server System 


How much time would you regain if you could manage all the company’s information, and your entire website – from the same application?

How much time would your co-workers recoup if they could all work on the same project at once, without endless emails on one small decision and countless hours deciding what the final document contains?

How much more website traffic would you get if several (authorized) people could update it instead of just one?

Thanks to interactive technologies like ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0), we now have a server platform with all these capabilities. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – MOSS 2007 for short.

MOSS 2007 provides a complete system in which to build custom, interactive websites and knowledge bases. MOSS supports all intranet, extranet and enterprise-level Web applications within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems.

MOSS 2007 has both internal and external (customer-facing) functionalities. Devote custom internal WebPages to teams or specific projects. Store company documents and/or processes in a shared repository. Build interactive websites which are easy to update later. Use the workflow built into MOSS 2007 to create simple approval processes.

All from within the MOSS2007 interface.

We’ve divided up a selection of MOSS 2007’s capabilities below, into Internal and External (customer-facing) categories.

MOSS 2007 Internal Capabilities

• Gather together all the content in your organization with the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features. Reports, emails, customer data, services information, team plans, calendars, task lists, workflow, you name it.
• Use MOSS 2007 as an intranet, knowledge base, BI platform for Performance Point Server, and shared calendars – all at once!
• Build specialized sites for specific projects, team collaboration, even portals for department operations.
• Keep teams up-to-date on any information changed for their projects with their own RSS feeds.
• Modify MOSS with Office: Use your everyday applications to update data on the MOSS server. Access document libraries in Word, shared worksheets in Excel, reports in Access, etc.
• Use MOSS 2007 Web Parts to build Dashboards. Assemble data from multiple sources, like KPIs, shared Excel spreadsheets, and SQL Server 2005 reports. View important customer or market information all in one place.
• Use MOSS 2007 to access and query your organization’s Line of Business (LOB) data, which helps you organize your company’s data into one unified platform.

MOSS 2007 External (Customer-Facing) Capabilities

• Build your entire website in MOSS 2007, like you would with a CMS. Modify any page in real time, publish it on-demand.
• Design your website with the built-in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 application. With ASP.NET Master Pages, design changes in SharePoint Designer 2007 are reflected automatically to the rest of the site.
• All users (with appropriate permissions) can update documents on SharePoint sites themselves. Instead of funneling webpage changes through one already-overworked administrator.
• All MOSS 2007 content is stored in SQL 2005 databases. SQL 2005 contains built-in security precautions, as well as backup mechanisms. Your website’s content is always safe.
• Work on documents remotely from a familiar Office interface. With MOSS 2007’s Web Parts you can log into your workspace or My Site from anywhere.
• Run a search engine inside your company with MOSS 2007’s Enterprise Search capability. Search through documents, people’s records, emails, etc.
• Use a workflow to control the approval process for document publishing.

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We’ve received more demand for SharePoint 2007 consulting than any other type of project. MOSS technology is fast replacing content management systems (CMS) and ECM platforms in enterprise networks.


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