General information
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 improves organizational effectiveness by providing one unified suite of enterprise-scale applications that satisfies diverse business-critical needs, such as managing content and business processes, simplifying how people work together across boundaries, and enabling better informed decision-making.
Benefit Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007
Product overview Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search
Portal
The portal components of Office SharePoint Server 2007 include features that are especially useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate Internet presence Web sites, and divisional portal sites. The portal components also make it easy to connect to people within the organization that have the right skills, knowledge, and project experience. Office SharePoint Server 2007 simplifies the way in which people work together.
Content Management
The new and enhanced content management features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 fall within three areas:
- Document management
- Records management
- Web content management
Windows SharePoint Services provides core document management functionality: major and minor versioning, check-in/check-out document locking, rich descriptive metadata, workflow, content type–based policies, auditing, and role-based-access controls at the document library, folder, and individual document levels. Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on these capabilities to deliver enhanced authoring, business document processing, Web content management and publishing, records management, policy management, and support for multilingual publishing.
- Document Management. With the new document management components of Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Products and Technologies no longer simply provide a platform for document collaboration. Office SharePoint Server 2007 becomes a full-featured solution for managing business documents.
Enhanced document libraries in Windows SharePoint Services provide the foundation for the new document management features described below.
- Records Management. Every organization, whether privately held, publicly traded, or not-for-profit, needs a disciplined approach to record keeping. Proper records management is vital to an organization’s knowledge management, legal defense, and regulatory compliance.
Records management is the process of collecting, managing, and disposing of corporate records (information deemed important for the history, knowledge, or legal defense of a company) in a consistent and uniform manner based on the company’s policies. These policies are shaped by the type of work the organization does, the kinds of legal risks it faces, and the laws and regulations that govern it. Office SharePoint Server 2007 introduces a new set of features for creating and supporting formal records management capabilities in your organization.
- Web Content Management. A key goal for Office SharePoint Server 2007 is the complete integration of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 functionality, and further significant enhancement of the Web content management functionality, with the collaboration, portal, search, document management, and records management features of the new Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Search
The search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been significantly enhanced by this release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The new features provide a consistent and familiar search experience, increased relevance of search results, new functions to search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data in LOB applications, and improved manageability and extensibility.
Business Processes
Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 helps organizations streamline forms-driven business processes with easy-to-use, intelligent, XML-based electronic forms that integrate smoothly with existing systems. This security-enhanced, client/server platform provides rapid-solution creation and deployment, centralizes form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers.
Business Intelligence
Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organizations provide business intelligence (BI) capabilities to every employee, so they can share, control, and reuse business information in order to make better business decisions. The BI features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide Web and programmatic access to published Office Excel spreadsheets, programmatic reuse of critical LOB data, and easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound KPIs, Web Parts, and published spreadsheets.
SharePoint Server options through Client Access Licensing
With the 2007 Office systems release there will be new licensing options, based on features in response to end customer demand. For Office SharePoint Server 2007 there are two Client Access Licenses (CALs):
- Standard CAL = Base CAL with standard features: Collaboration portal + content management, Document lifecycle capabilities and Enterprise Search enhancements
- Enterprise CAL = Additive CAL* with additional features and functionality: E-forms services, Spreadsheet publishing & reporting and Business data integration.
* The additive CAL requires the base CAL.
More info about Licensing
More information on: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/servers/sharepointserver/