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Provide a simple,
familiar, and consistent user experience.
Office SharePoint
Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client
desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to
provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how
people interact with content, processes, and business
data. This tight integration, coupled with robust
out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services
themselves and facilitates product adoption.
Boost employee
productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
Take advantage of
out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and
reporting common business activities such as document
review and approval, issue tracking, and signature
collection. You can complete these activities without
any coding. Tight integration with familiar client
applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with
a simple, consistent experience. Modifying and extending
these out-of-the-box workflow processes is made easy
through tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer
2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage).
Help meet regulatory
requirements through comprehensive control over content.
By specifying
security settings, storage policies, auditing policies,
and expiration actions for business records in
accordance with compliance regulations, you can help
ensure your sensitive business information can be
controlled and managed effectively. And you can reduce
litigation risk for your organization. Tight integration
of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with familiar desktop
applications means that policy settings are rendered
onto client applications in the Microsoft Office system,
making it simpler for employees to be aware of and
comply with regulatory requirements.
Effectively manage
and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
Business users and
content authors can create and submit content for
approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or
Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is
simplified through new document library templates that
are specifically designed to maintain a relationship
between the original version and different translations
of a document.
Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and
unstructured information across disparate systems.
Give your users
access to business data found in common line-of-business
systems like SAP and Siebel through Office SharePoint
Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views
and interactions with business systems through a browser
by dragging configurable back-end connections.
Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your
organizations store and organize business documents in
one central location.
Connect people with information and expertise.
Enterprise Search in
Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data
along with information about documents, people, and Web
pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results.
Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction,
and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you
can easily find what you need.
Accelerate shared
business processes across organizational boundaries.
Without coding any
custom applications, you can use smart, electronic
forms–driven solutions to collect critical business
information from customers, partners, and suppliers
through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules
help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be
directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid
redundancy and errors that result from manual data
re-entry.
Share business data without divulging sensitive
information.
Give your employees
access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel
spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services
running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use these
spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one
central and up-to-date version while helping to protect
any proprietary information embedded in the documents
(such as financial models).
Enable people to
make better-informed decisions by presenting
business-critical information in one central location.
Office SharePoint
Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive
business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and
display business-critical information from disparate
sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as
dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance
indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity
technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users
a single place for locating the latest reports,
spreadsheets, or KPIs.
Provide a single, integrated platform to manage
intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the
enterprise.
Office SharePoint
Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture,
with support for Web services and interoperability
standards including XML and Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application
programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for
lists and documents. These features provide integration
with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate
new non-Microsoft IT investments.
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