Features and Benefits of SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal solution for intelligently connecting people, teams and information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a central place for your employees or clients to access, manage, share and interact with relevant information, documents, applications and other people. It enables quicker and better decisions, more effective sharing across teams and more streamlined business processes.

The primary goal of SharePoint Portal Server is to bring together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of knowledge and information available inside and outside an organization. This includes connecting workers, customers, teams and projects with the knowledge, information and data they’ve created in a way that makes them easy to find, retrieve and re-use.

SharePoint Portal Server provides an advanced set of capabilities including:

• Creating, deploying and managing customizable corporate intranet, extranet and Internet portal solutions for small groups, large business units or entire enterprises, dramatically expanding the number of users, sites and documents that can be managed.
• Enterprise searching of all of the information in an organization – regardless of whether the information is stored on file servers, Web sites, other document storage systems or line-of-business applications.
• Supporting customizable structures for creating, organizing and locating all sources of information within an organization including division and business unit portal sites, team collaboration project web sites, My Site personal web sites and other content using a searchable hierarchy of keyword bet bets.
• Personalized categorization and delivery of portal and other enterprise information and data based on customizable user profiles and organization-defined audiences.