Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is an expansive product offering that enables businesses to
operate more efficiently at multiple levels.
Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Top Ten Benefits
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Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop
applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how
people interact with content, processes, and business data. This tight integration, coupled with
robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates product
adoption.
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Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business
activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. You can
complete these activities without any coding. Tight integration with familiar client applications,
e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with a simple, consistent experience. Modifying and extending
these out-of-the-box workflow processes is easy.
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Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for
business records in accordance with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive
business information can be controlled and managed effectively. Tight integration of Office
SharePoint Server 2007 with familiar desktop applications means that policy settings are rendered
onto client applications in the Microsoft Office system, making it simpler for employees to be aware
of and comply with regulatory requirements.
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Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment
to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library
templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and
different translations of a document.
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Simplify organizationwide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate
systems.
Give your users access to business data found in common line-of-business (LOB) systems like SAP and Siebel
through Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with LOB
systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections. Enterprisewide repositories help
your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.
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Connect people with information and expertise.
Enterprise search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data along with information about
documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate
collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find
what you need.
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Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect
critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data
validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end
systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.
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Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheets from a Web
browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use these spreadsheets to maintain
and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary
information embedded in the documents (such as financial models).
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Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one
central location.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI)
portals that assemble and display information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities
such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators, and business data connectivity
technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating information.
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Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications
across the enterprise.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services
and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich
application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide
integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate non-Microsoft IT investments.
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