SharePoint is the foundation for a business productivity infrastructure that is optimized around people and the way they work.
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
SharePoint Products and Technologies is the foundation of an optimized business productivity infrastructure – the first comprehensive approach to solving the problems that people encounter in the unstructured world of work. Rather than treating information management and access, collaboration, and people-driven processes as isolated challenges, SharePoint encompasses the whole continuum of unstructured work as a single set of related issues that demand a single, strategic approach.
Benefits
- Simplicity for end users, who can leverage their familiarity with Office-based applications and the browser environment for all their information-work activities, regardless of their role or task.
- Value and governance for IT, which only needs to support a single set of technologies to enable comprehensive capabilities across the enterprise.
- Speed and flexibility for the business, which can customize and extend the platform quickly and easily at a variety of levels from personalization to enterprise application development.
- The security and scalability of a platform built for the enterprise
SharePoint integrates collaborative, information-centric, and process-oriented activities into a single, extensible platform that fits seamlessly into people’s natural work environment.
At a basic level, SharePoint can address specific needs related to collaboration, information access, enterprise content management, capture of information through electronic forms, dissemination of business intelligence data, and enterprise application integration through portal sites.
The real value of SharePoint is the way that it integrates the whole spectrum of collaborative, information-centric, and process-oriented activities into a single, extensible platform that fits seamlessly into people’s natural work environment. This integration solves the business need for rapid responsiveness and IT’s need for governance, while giving people the right tools for their job in an easy, familiar context. As organizations deploy SharePoint for specific purposes, they will find that the unique combination of capabilities, accessibility, extensibility, and manageability opens up new vistas of potential for people and the business.