More about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
The challenge when describing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is that it can mean so many things to so many people - it is a server capable of delivering not just collaboration, but also business intelligence, business process integration, enterprise content management and enterprise search.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables users to:
Manage content effectively
Maximise the information assets
Accelerate internal and external shared business processes
Efficiently find and access information to drive better-informed decisions
Share business information more effectively
Provide IT with a single, integrated, extensible platform to manage internet, extranet, and website applications across the organisation.
MOSS works across six functional areas:
1. Collaboration: this function helps keep teams connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information users need to make more well-informed decisions within their jobs.
2. Portal: with features useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate internet presence Web sites, and divisional portal sites. This function helps keep teams connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information users need to make more well-informed decisions within their jobs.
3. Search: with features to provide searches for people and expertise, index and search data in line-of-business applications.
4. Enterprise Content Management: 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 at the document library, folder, and individual document levels. Microsoft 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.
5. Forms Driven Business Process: this function 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, centralises form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers, and finally:
6. Business Intelligence: allows you to share, control and reuse business information ‘in order to make better business decisions’. The BI features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide Web and programmatic access to published Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets, programmatic reuse of critical line-of-business data, and easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound key performance indicators (KPIs), Web Parts, and published spreadsheets