SharePoint 2007 Key Facts & Figures

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has a positive look on its future banking on the success of its predecessor:

1. 75 million licenses were sold to 10 thousand customers
2. SharePoint is a leader in Gartner Portals Magic Quadrant
3. Forrester list SharePoint as the number 1 portal
4. More than 1 thousand partners work on SharePoint
5. Community continue to grow
6. More than 380 customer case studies

The list of Partners with SharePoint solutions are: AvePoint, BrightWork , Bentley,
Captaris, Casahl, Colligo, CorasWorks, FileNet, Idiom, IntraLearn, iORa, IT IS, KnowledgeLake, KoFax, MetaLogix, Mondosoft, Nintex, nSynergy, Open Text, OTB Solutions, QuestSoftware, Syntergy, Tata Consulting Services, Vorsite, Wipro

The new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has addressed business activities and challenges.

Customer Service/Support - SharePoint 2007 use business intelligence to track issues, and is able to manage content better with Web Content Management while its collaborative nature resolves support scenarios.

Sourcing - Since it can be a single infrastructure to face the internet, announcement for requirements and inquiry is easy with SharePoint 2007s feature.

Research and Development - The improved search engine built into SharePoint 2007 helps speed up retrieval of archived information and they are able to communicate their findings better and use Web Content Management to keep whitepapers and publications.

Delivering Products/Services - Workflows and alerts are highly improved to communicate orders and requirements faster.

Customer Acquisition - The built-in project management tools in SharePoint makes analysis of companies’ performance so easy and convenient.

Operations - An integrated environment delivering information quickly can standardize various business processed like HR, Accounting, etc. Business Intelligence is also used to analyze cost better.

SharePoint Key Areas

Collaboration - The major developments on SharePoint 2007 as a collaboration tool is taking internet concepts into the enterprise. The tight integration between SharePoint 2007 and messaging infrastructure makes communication between people across departments and locations easier, integration into one presentation with documents/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail, project management “lite”, Outlook, and capability to work offline brings collaboration into the next level that will produce high-productivity output in businesses.

Business Intelligence - Business Intelligence targets the whole business from top management to the lower ranks which connects clients and servers and provides delivery of in-context BI, enhanced KPIs, Reports and Dashboards.

Key technologies of BI are excel services, report center, KPIs and KPI lists, business data catalog, and OCD library.

Portal - The portal capabilities of SharePoint 2007 is taken to the next level with the availability of a number of enterprise portal templates, enhancements of site directory, my sites, social networking and privacy controls. It’s major and noticeable improvement is the rich and personalized aggregation point of user experience, application and information. It also provides rich canvas for building composite applications and web part framework was built into the .NET framework.

Key technologies are .NET 2.0 support, redesigned My Site, inclusion of information aggregation web parts, and pluggable authentication and rich deployment models.

Search - Search got major improvements in from its predecessor as it is now capable of handling enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, ability to find people and expertise, ability to perform business data search and features to easily connect to backend systems.

Key technologies are relevance, hit highlighting, query correction, business data catalog, customizable search center, and rich people search.

Enterprise Content Management - Powerful integration of document management, records management, web content management (formerly CMS) with policies and workflow plus compliance and multi-lingual scenario capabilities, and seamless office integration makes SharePoint 2007 a full blown Enterprise Content Management platform.

Key technologies are content types, integrated workflow, internet scale web content management (WCM), records management with policies and auditing, and integrated rights management.

Business Forms - Rich and web forms based front-end, LOB actions, pluggable SSO.

Platform Services Server - based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards

Business Process Integration

Integration of structured business processes is addressed through people centric workflow out-of-the-box which uses Windows Workflow Foundation.

Key technologies are out of the box workflow templates, InfoPath forms, business data catalog, xml file format, out-of-the-box connectors between SharePoint 2007 and SAP, Siebel and Dynamics.

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