Connect your people to information and expertise
Quick, easy access to critical information and expertise means better decisions and more rigorous execution.
- A comprehensive portal framework makes it easy to build portal sites that meet the specific requirements of your audience. A flexible, highly scalable architecture supports personal, divisional, intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.
- Integrated web content management makes customizing site look-and-feel easy. Powerful authoring features simplify content contribution. Centrally managed site design, publishing and deployment capabilities seamlessly integrate cutting-edge web content management into the overall portal platform.
- Cutting-edge social networking technology makes finding and managing expertise easier than ever before.
Connect your people to key business applications
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.
- A sophisticated application development environment shortens development time for highly customized business applications.
- A comprehensive application integration framework allows you to quickly assemble composite applications from existing systems.
- State-of-the-art application governance features provide fine-grained control over the application execution environment.
Connect your people to role-specific resources
Personalized information delivery increases the relevance and value of information.
- Audience targeting features allow information owners to decide how, when and where specific audiences consume their information.
- The My Site personal site pulls together summary views of personal information, providing full control over information "for me, by me, and about me."
- Personalized information rollup allows users to create customized summaries of important information in the portal.
The following table outlines and compares the portal features included in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL. For the complete feature outline, please refer to the. Office SharePoint Server edition comparison document.
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My Site personal site
The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information "for me," "by me," and "about me." |
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Content syndication
Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site. |
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Privacy and security
Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view. |
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Site Directory
The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content. |
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User Profiles and the Profile Store
User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance. |
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Audience targeting
Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences. |
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Site Manager
Manage a SharePoint site's navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts. |
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Mobile device support
All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render on international and North American mobile devices (including Web-enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format. |
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Portal site templates
Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Web sites. |
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SharePoint Sites and Documents Aggregation Web Parts
List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. |
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Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts
List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups. |
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Integration with Microsoft Office Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 2007
Users of 2007 Microsoft Office system programs can directly interact with information stored in SharePoint sites without having to manually download the content.Users can create workspaces, post and edit documents, and assign tasks, all while working on documents stored in SharePoint sites. |
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Integration with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
With Office Outlook 2007, users can view calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint sites, and create and manage sites for editing documents and organizing meetings. |
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Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft FrontPage technology, will provide tools for rich customization of sites, and creating reporting tools and application templates, without any coding. |
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