Features and Benefits of SharePoint Server 2007
SharePoint Portal Server ConsultingMicrosoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

SharePoint Server 2007 includes a variety of new features that give it significant advantages over SharePoint Portal Server 2003. An example is Site Manager, which allows you to manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel via an easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts.

Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007
Office SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to manage content and processes by allowing you to:

  • Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management
  • Centrally store, manage, and access documents across the enterprise
  • Simplify Web content management
  • Extend business processes across the organization
  • Streamline everyday business activities

    SharePoint Server improves business insight by making it easy to:

  • Present business-critical information in one central location
  • Quickly connect people with information
  • Share business data broadly while helping to protect sensitive information
  • Take advantage of your unstructured business networks to drive better decisions
  • Unlock business data

    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 streamlines internal and external collaboration by providing a platform for you to:

  • Enhance customer and partner relationships
  • Provide ubiquitous Enterprise Search
  • Work when and where you want
  • Connect and share knowledge
  • Personalize operations

    SharePoint Server also empowers IT to make a strategic impact by offering:

  • Enhanced interoperability support
  • Freedom for IT to focus on more strategic tasks
  • Simpler web deployment, management, and system administration
  • Robust system monitoring, usage tracking, and monitoring tools

    Benefits of SharePoint Server 2007
    Key benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 include:

    • Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience
    • Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities
    • Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content
    • Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value
    • Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems
    • Connect people with information and expertise
    • Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries
    • Share business data without divulging sensitive information
    • Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location
    • Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise

    Versions of SharePoint Server 2007
    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is available in several versions:

    Standard Edition
    This version of Office SharePoint Server includes the core capabilities of Office SharePoint Server such as managing content and business processes, enabling better-informed decisions, finding information and organizational expertise, and simplifying how people work together across boundaries.

    Enterprise Edition
    This version of Office SharePoint Server adds rights for you to use the Line of Business data integration and search, Business Intelligence including performance management dashboard and web-based spreadsheets, and electronic forms.

    SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet Sites
    This version has all the features of the Enterprise Edition of Office SharePoint Server but is restricted to Internet-facing websites.

    SharePoint Server 2007 for Search
    Available for Standard and Enterprise Editions of SharePoint Server, this package offers a security-enhanced, scalable, extensible, and manageable search solution. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search meets the core search needs of enterprises while offering the simplicity and ease of use needed by small and medium businesses to increase productivity and alleviate information overload. The Standard Edition is limited to indexing 500,000 documents.

    How Progent Can Help You with SharePoint Server 2007
    Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you evaluate the business case for implementing SharePoint Server 2007, advise you on the most appropriate version of SharePoint for your application, provide configuration and deployment expertise, help you set up Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end database, optimize your network infrastructure, integrate your standard and custom application software to operate with SharePoint Portal Server, develop a company-wide security plan that incorporates portal technology, and deliver troubleshooting and Help Desk support.

    Progent's Consulting Services for Microsoft Technology
    For small and mid-sized businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, or anywhere in the U.S., Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide computer assistance and IT consulting services for the whole family of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003. Progent's migration, installation, update, and support services cover network architecture, configuration, and administration help for project management and documentation, on-site and off-site technical support and network diagnosis, HelpDesk Call Center Support, comprehensive security expertise, and IT outsourcing.

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    If you wish to get in touch with Progent about consulting assistance for Microsoft SharePoint Server technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or email sharepoint-server-help@progent.com.
















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