Collaboration

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps your organization get more done by providing a platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities and people-driven processes. Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the overall Microsoft collaboration vision and integrates with other collaborative products to offer a comprehensive infrastructure for working with others.

Empower Teams Through Collaborative Workspaces

Microsoft delivers a best-of-breed collaborative infrastructure that gives end users the tools to easily create their own workspaces and share assets across teams, departments, and organizations while maintaining IT control.

• Deliver a secure, self-service collaborative workspace infrastructure that keeps people connected, informed, and on task.
• Maximize the value of Microsoft Office desktop programs by seamlessly integrating with collaborative workspace capabilities.
• Extend collaborative workspaces beyond the firewall to enable secure collaboration with partners, suppliers, and customers.
• Enable collaborative workspace access anytime, anywhere.
• Customize collaborative workspaces for specific business processes.

Connect Organizations Through Portals
Microsoft will help bring the full insight and data of the organization to the right people at the right time by making it easy to connect people with line-of-business data, experts, and business processes across the organization.

• Easily deliver targeted content, data, and information to users based on their network and corporate identities.
• Rapidly build composite applications or mashups using a common portal framework that aggregates multiple portals, business applications, and LOB data into a single environment.
• Offer users a single, personalized view of their work and the tools and resources they need to do their jobs with My Sites.
• Reduce cycle times and promote efficiency by automating business processes.

Enable Communities with Social Computing Tools
Microsoft gives organizations the tools to deliver a broad set of social computing capabilities within their existing workspace and portal infrastructure, so end users can more easily harness the collective intelligence of the organization.

• Accelerate innovation and collaboration across the organization by automating the process for people to find, connect, and build social networks across business and geographical boundaries.
• Leverage the collaborative workspace infrastructure to streamline collaborative authoring and information sharing to quickly and easily build collective intelligence with enterprise-grade wikis.
• Leverage the collaboration workspace infrastructure to provide users with better ways for users to have persistent conversations with others, both within and outside the organization, using blogs.

Reduce Cost and Complexity for IT by Using an Integrated Infrastructure, Existing Investments, and an Extensible Architectural Platform
The Microsoft collaboration infrastructure leverages existing investments, is extensible, and interoperates with other systems, so organizations can maintain a lower cost of ownership and more easily meet business demands by building a single infrastructure.

• Leverage existing Microsoft investments.
• Maximize the value of existing LOB systems and other business applications by using SharePoint as their interface.
• Lower total cost of ownership by consolidating silo collaboration applications onto a single, extensible platform.
• Shift the perception of IT from cost center to strategic business enabler.