Top 10 Benefits Enterprise MOSS

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an integrated suite of easy-to-use server applications that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize how people, content, processes, and business applications interact. Here are the top 10 ways Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization.

1. Security and Protection of Your Information

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data. This tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates product adoption.

2. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities

Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. You can complete these activities without any coding. Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with a simple, consistent experience. Modifying and extending these out-of-the-box workflow processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage).

3. Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.

Team collaboration and working has become a vital part of a business efficiency. Hosted Exchange messaging solutions are designed to work with Microsoft Outlook 2003, collaborative applications including Office 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services to deliver strong team performance.

4. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.

Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.

5. Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.

Give your users access to business data in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through out-of-the-box connectors in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging and dropping predefined, configurable back-end connections. Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations store and organize business documents in one central location.

6. Connect people with information and expertise.

Office SharePoint Enterprise Search incorporates business data along with information about documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results so you can easily find what you need.

7. Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries

Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms-driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems avoiding redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.

8. Share business data without divulging sensitive information

Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents (such as financial models).

9. Enable better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location

Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.

10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.