Collaboration and Document Sharing

Through Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, project-driven organizations can increase their efficiency and improve team productivity. SharePoint delivers tools for collaboration and document management and sharing that keep people connected across organizational and geographic boundaries. It also provides a platform for building flexible and scalable Web-based business applications.

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Top Ten Benefits of SharePoint 3.0

1. Improve team productivity with easy-to-use collaborative tools - Users can create team workspaces, coordinate calendars, organize documents, and receive important notifications and updates through communication features.



2. Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content - Activate required document checkout before editing, the ability to view revisions to documents and restore to previous versions, and the control to set document- and item-level security.



3. Get users up to speed quickly - Integration with familiar productivity tools, including programs in the Microsoft Office system, makes it easy for users to get up to speed quickly. Users manage documents all while working within Microsoft Office.



4. Deploy solutions tailored to your business processes - Organizations seeking a more customized deployment can get started quickly with application templates for addressing specific business processes or sets of tasks.



5. Build a collaboration environment quickly and easily - SharePoint enables IT departments to deploy a collaborative environment with minimal administrative time and effort, from simple, single-server configurations to more robust enterprise configurations.



6. Reduce the complexity of securing business information - Take advantage of better, less complex controls for site life-cycle management, site memberships and permissions, and storage limits.



7. Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources - IT departments can set permissions as deep down as the document or item level, and site managers, teams, and other work groups can initiate self-service collaborative workspaces and tasks within these preset parameters.



8. Take file sharing to a new level with robust storage capabilities - Includes retrieval features, check-in/check-out functionality, version history, custom metadata, customizable views, enhanced recycle bin functionality, and improved backup and restoration.



9. Easily scale your collaboration solution to meet business needs - Using a Web browser or command-line utilities, manage server farms, servers, and sites using the Microsoft .NET Framework, which enables a variety of custom and third-party administration solution offerings.



10. Provide a cost-effective foundation for building Web-based applications - Build flexible and scalable Web applications and Internet sites specific to the needs of the organization. Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 expands these capabilities further to offer enterprise-wide functionality.

• Factsheet: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  

• Factsheet: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 7.0
  

How Microsoft Technology Integrates with SharePoint