Microsoft SharePoint 2007

Microsoft SharePoint is the server application for ensuring joint work, providing management tools to contents, implementation of business processes and representation of access to the data important for organizational goals and processes. Based on Microsoft Sharepoint technologies development, both corporate web portals, and custom applications is possible.

SharePoint, or Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies is a collection of software products and components which, apart from constantly increasing number of available solutions, includes the following elements:

• A set of web applications for the organization of joint work
• Functionality for creation of portals
• The information search module in documents and information systems
• Functionality of management of workflows and system of content management of an enterprise scale
• The module of creation of forms for information input
• Functionality for the Business analysis

SharePoint can be used for creation of the websites giving to users an opportunity for joint work. The websites created on the SharePoint platform can be used as an information warehouse, knowledge and documents and also to be used for execution of the web applications facilitating interaction, such as Wiki and blogs. Users can manage and interact with information in lists and libraries of documents using kontrola, the called web parts (SharePoint WebParts)

Features

For the last time, very many began to think concerning the integrated software environment in which employees will be able effectively to work with commands, as within the company, and far off. Owing to numerous advertizing lately the solution of Google gains popularity, but there is a certain number of defects. Let's say you have an opportunity to prepare work of group using an intranet, (what will lead to increase in data protection and what, will be the main wish of the customer)? Or, documents change periodically and recovered, it took place in your work? Not each of holders of information will be ready to store the documents, files in the general access for all people (though Google and positions the confidentiality pretty seriously).

Especially for the solution of such and close tasks the product Microsoft SharePoint is developed. It helps to reduce risks which are formed owing to joint work of divisions and departments of the company with documents. In other words, SharePoint allows to control document revisions in the general working environment, well and of course big advantage at the same time is its integration into applications and services Microsoft (for example, with Word, Excel). As a result, it is not the just suitable and practical platform for maintaining and storage of documentation electronic document management, but also a set of means, for joint work with support of the structured flows of works.

In what system effectiveness of SharePoint? - Shared access. For creation of shared access of a command SharePoint Server is used (even if some participants of group to be in different points). Also there is an opportunity to set settings of the server which will allow commands (participants) to use that part of the server to which access is configured it will allow to conduct simultaneous operation of commands on the server.<

• Control of versions. In a system it is possible to observe version control of documents which will allow to trace at any time who and what made changes. And will also help to get access to the previous document revisions if there is such need.
• Wiki. The technology allowing to create quickly and, to arrange the arriving information and to store it in the knowledge base of the company.
• Websites. Depending on requirements and tasks of the company you can select the mode of work which is most suitable for you from SharePoint Server: portal and by means of the small websites. Access rights for these two methods are configured almost equally.

We listed only the most considerable pluses of the provided system. Still there are many useful developments which will please you in the course of work.

Microsoft started upgraded version of SharePoint 2010 on the market recently. Now with entry into the market of the long-awaited version of SharePoint 2010, old WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 receded into the background. WSS exchanged on Microsoft Fundation 2010 and SharePoint Server changed only 2007 for 2010. These products and components of Microsoft SharePoint technology exceeded the predecessors on the following functions:

• Improvement of technology of processing of one document a user group is borrowed from Microsoft Office OneNote.
• SharePoint 2010 became most compatible to the popular browsers Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari. User login on the server can automatically take place, using Login/Pass of login. Though the environment was initially developed under Internet Explorer. But in it there are also defects, web browsers repeatedly, Login and Pass request, this circumstance can slow down work.
• Work with web pages in respect of editing became simpler, now it is necessary to be guided at data which you want to edit and just to click them a mouse, the same principle of work, as well as in Word.
• Improvement of the SharePoint interface – application of the film Ribbon familiar to most of users on the products Microsoft Office.
• SharePoint 2010 is not tired to surprise us with new products, windows of dialogs are intensively used in the program now. They are executed in Web 2.0 key using AJAX technologies and also as the Film Ribbon, appear during editing contents of lists and so forth. The website (node) in SharePoint 2010 purchased pleasant design which can be transformed beyond recognition now.
• Now for the staff of the international organizations it is possible to set freely language settings for ensuring convenience in management of the portal. One language for work with your applications now in the past.
• The set of technical new products which will make happy SharePoint-developer, such as automatic creation of XML for BDC models and applications which are applied to interaction with external applications or LINQ technology for a request to data in SharePoint and many other things is entered.