Publish Access databases in SharePoint.

Work with external data, whether online or offline, in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications using Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly named the Business Data Catalog).

Manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you're dealing with traditional content, Web content, or social content.

Create rich dashboards that convey the right information the first time, aggregating content from multiple sources and displaying it in a Web browser in an understandable and collaborate environment. Rich interactivity lets you to analyze up-to-the-minute information and work with the data quickly and easily to identify key opportunities and trends.

Perform root cause analyses using powerful analytics to examine core data. View only the most pertinent information using the new Decomposition Tree.

Create a Document Set to manage related content as a single entity, speeding up common processes like RFP responses.

Use the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010 to narrow the results of your search and find the right content faster.

Learn more about your colleagues with Profile pages. The My Profile page contains information about employees, including biographies, job titles, location, contact information, interests and skills, and previous projects.

Use more than 40 out-of-the-box Web Parts to add functionality anywhere in a site with point-and-click simplicity.

Search for people by name or by associated terms.

Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems.

Quickly and easily find and use relevant features with the new contextual SharePoint Ribbon.

Upload Silverlight XAP applications to a document library and use them immediately with the built-in Silverlight Web Part.

Classify and organize large amounts of information in your company by applying tags. Use standardized taxonomy tags defined by the organization and informal social tags defined by employees.

Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 but keep the SharePoint 2007 look-and-feel until you are ready to switch. View a site with the SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it.

Use Web Parts to add new functionality to SharePoint sites. Add a Web Part to any page, and a the new functionality will appear when the page is displayed.