Quick, easy access to critical information and expertise means better decisions and more rigorous execution.

Consolidated access to existing business applications drives consistent performance of common business tasks. Streamlined development of new composite applications can lead to order of magnitude improvements in important business processes.

Personalized information delivery increases the relevance and value of information.

Learn more about these Portal Features.

• SharePoint Server 2007 Taking Leads in Collaboration Business Software Market
  April 24, 2007: The Wall Street Journal Online, Robert A. Guth
  Miami-Dade County Public Schools created a SharePoint application to help students and teachers collaborate, with over 50,000 students accessing the system within the first two months. (Subscription required for full WSJ.com article.)

• Microsoft cures its connectile dysfunction: Redmond has injected SharePoint with a potent collaboration boost
  February 7, 2007: InfoWorld, Oliver Rist
  “Most important: It’s all about collaboration. SharePoint used to be pretty much an HTML-based Web site that could talk to public folders. Now you've got personal vs. team sharing built right in.” 

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• Frequently Asked Questions About Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites
  This page includes additional information about the availability, functionality, and extensibility of the role-based templates for SharePoint My Sites.

• People and Personalization Help and How-To
  Read articles to learn more about My Site and how to present content to specific audiences.

• Office Business Applications (OBA): Building Composite Applications Using the Microsoft Platform
  This book is about composite applications and how they can be developed as OBAs by using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. It provides an overview of the technologies available in the 2007 Microsoft Office System, and gives several examples from various industries to build OBAs by using composition at the presentation, business logic, and data layers. This book is meant for solution architects, industry architects, or senior developers who are designing, developing, and deploying composite applications. Download this book (6.6 MB .pdf document).

• Introduction to Workflows
  Workflows help people to collaborate on documents and to manage project tasks by implementing business processes on documents and items in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. This page includes an overview of workflows, a list of out-of-the-box workflows included in SharePoint Server 2007, an introduction to creating custom workflows, and the steps involved in using workflows.