The Sharepoint platform comprises Six Pillars that operate in a fully integrated manner, and which may be implemented in part or whole. Alternatively. the Pillars may be implemented in stages to suit the requirements, budget and resouces of a particular organisation.
1. Collaboration and Social Computing
Provides Workspaces, Tasks, Forums, Surveys, Blogs, RSS and Wikis, and many other Web 2.0 features.
· Give users the ability to create and control their own collaborative workspaces. Make it easy for teams to adapt workspaces to the needs of the project.
· Coordinate teamwork with shared calendars, alerts and notifications. Connect team calendars to the desktop with Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007.
· Make it easy to include and work with team members from outside the organization.
· Broadcast information with blogs and Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
· Capture community knowledge with wikis.
· Encourage dialogue with surveys and discussions.
2. Portal
Provides a world class Enterprise Portal platform that makes it easy to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect of a business.
· A comprehensive portal framework makes it easy to build portal sites that meet the specific requirements of your audience. A flexible, highly scalable architecture supports personal, divisional, intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.
· Integrated web content management makes customizing site look-and-feel easy. Powerful authoring features simplify content contribution. Centrally managed site design, publishing and deployment capabilities seamlessly integrate cutting-edge web content management into the overall portal platform.
3. Enterprise Search
Enterprise search functionality is integrated with the collaboration, portals, content management, forms and business intelligence features of SharePoint and can be integrated with other Microsoft products and Non-Microsoft products alike.
· Search file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out of the box and easily extend search to third party sources and file types.
· Index, search, and intelligently display information from line-of-business applications, relational databases, and other structured content using the Business Data Catalog.
· Leverage "people search" capabilities to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.
4. Web & Enterprise Content Management
Provides integrated content management for a range of unstructured content that includes documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages, and more. Giving core document management, major and minor versioning, check-in/check-out document locking, rich descriptive metadata, workflow, content type-based policies, auditing, and role-based-access controls.
· Document management capabilities to consolidate diverse content from multiple file shares and personal drives into a centrally managed repository with consistent categorization
· Web content management capabilities enable people to publish Web content with an easy-to-use content authoring tool and a built-in approval process
· Records Management capabilities to apply information retention, protection, and auditing policies to business records to help ensure these records are appropriately retained
5. Business Processes and Forms
Provides XML driven electronic forms and work-flow capabilities to implement business processes, and data collection /entry using any standard browser or Microsoft Office.
· Deliver forms with a consistent user experience regardless of where they are used. InfoPath 2007 uses built-in controls to deliver easy-to-use forms with predictable behaviour, mouse-over tips, and built-in data validation.
· Streamline business process applications through InfoPath forms, which collect and validate the data driving workflows.
· Use built-in collaborative workflow templates to streamline approval, review, and archiving processes.
· Deploy document templates with advanced document management capability built directly into a document in a way that is easy and straightforward for document authors.
6. Business Intelligence
Provides web-based dashboards, server-based Excel Services, line of business application and data repository integration using built-in Business Data Catalogue ( BDC ), and more sophisticated abilities to monitor key performance indicators.
· Broaden the access and availability of spreadsheets by incorporating interactive spreadsheets into business intelligence portals, dashboards, and scorecards
· Manage reports, spreadsheets, and data connections consistently using the new Report Center—an out-of-the-box site template and document library optimized for report access and management including a report library, data connection library, and a business intelligence dashboard template.
· Seamlessly integrate external data into applications using the Business Data Catalog (BDC), which simplifies the process of discovering and accessing data residing within back-end line-of-business applications.
· Communicate goals and status to drive results using a Web Part without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPI from Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets, SharePoint Lists, or manually entered data.
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