Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to simplify the companies’ shared operations and data management, to automate business processes and to provide user access to the necessary information. With the help of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server it is easy to create new internet and intranet pages and web-sites, to support publishing of a certain content, to manage data, entries, and business analytics.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server helps the company employees to organize efficient interactions with work group participants, to find resources, experts and corporate data, to manage information and work processes, as well as to analyze business data and to make sound decisions. All these functions are meant to increase the general performance of the company.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is offered only as a corporate license. Microsoft Corporate Licensing program provides special software sales and maintenance offers for five and more computers. The license acquisition under these licensing programs provides substantial economy.

Functionality

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with a complex of other Microsoft products provides the entire infrastructure for group work and data storage. The system offers a number of tools to solve such important business tasks as dynamic business analysis and support of decision making, data and business process management, data search and exchange between users and work groups. The modular structure of Microsoft SharePoint Server is described below:

• Corporate web portal. It includes tools for data management, collaboration, extended data search, document flow and other business processes.
• Business Analytics (Microsoft SharePoint Server PerformancePoint Services):

1. Monitoring Services are designed for key values monitoring, creation and publishing of dynamic and pre-setup reports, visualized interactive reports (ProClarity), and KPI dashboards.
2. Planning Services are designed to automate planning, budgeting and scenario modeling (what-if analysis) processes; to realize regulations and approval chains, to automate data entry.

Workspaces. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server gives its users the tools to create their own workspaces and shared resource usage by various groups, departments and companies. The system provides a secure and self-maintained infrastructure for shared operations. This helps the users to contact, exchange data, process tasks; it also extends the Microsoft Office system possibilities. The collaboration area can be extended beyond the firewall to ensure the secured cooperation with partners, vendors, and customers. It is possible to switch on the access to the collaboration area any time and from any place.

Portals. Portal sites provide the employee access to important business data, shared experience and applications. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is the world-class platform for corporate portals; it simplifies creation and maintenance of portal sites for any needs. The system gives the employees the access to internal company portals containing industry data, expert knowledge and business processes. The set of data and process available for a user depends on his access rights. The global corporate portal can unite various portals, business applications and business data into one single environment.

Business processes and forms. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes the built-in business processes templates to automate document approval, reviewing and archiving. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps to create, maintain, and analyze business processes thus organizing the team-work. Electronic forms provided via Microsoft Office InfoPath services are the integral part the business processes. These forms simplify data collection and verification for business processes. It is possible to collect data from the daily used Microsoft Office client applications.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 business analytics functions provide a certain infrastructure that allows the decision makers accessing data any time and from anywhere. It is possible to get the data needed in a daily work, for cooperation or decision making both in the PC desktops and via internet.

Social network tools. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server offers tools for creation of various social networks with their own infrastructure of workspaces and portals. This improves the conditions for user constant blog communication both inside and outside the company. Such collaborative infrastructure simplifies the document creation and data exchange processes; it speeds up and facilitates the creation of corporate analytical documents and reference books.

Scalable infrastructure. The collaborative infrastructure created by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is scalable and compatible with other systems. This helps the companies to create and maintain a single business infrastructure easily and at low costs; it increases the value of both other Microsoft products used by the company and the rest of business applications and business systems. As a result the TCO for an information system is decreased. Thus, the IT-technologies are turned from a cost center into a tool for extending business possibilities.