SharePoint is a document management and collaboration platform from Microsoft, amongst
many other things! It provides a web based tool for the management of documents
and information across an organisation and includes features such as document versioning
and workflow “out of the box”. Further, it provides an infrastucture for 'power
users' to develop application functionality themselves.
SharePoint is two main products: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office
SharePoint 2007.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 facilitates team collaboration via provision
of the infrastructure for collaboration and a foundation for building web-based
applications with this versatile technology that is free with Windows Server.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is
WSS3's big, commercial brother based on the same underlying technologies. It is
a new server program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Your organization
can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content
management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information
that is essential to organizational goals and processes.
You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing,
content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can
also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in
forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business
data.
At Propona we like to practise what we preach. We utilise SharePoint as our Intranet
solution and have experience in tailoring and configuring SharePoint to offer real
business benefits.