Moss 2007 features
This post will be of helpful to anyone who plans, builds, deploys, or manages business solutions using Office SharePoint Server 2007.
The following are the features of Office SharePoint Server 2007:
Ø Portal
Ø Search
Ø Content Management
Ø Business Processes
Ø Business Intelligence
Portal
Portal components in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 assist you in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portal sites, corporate Internet presence Web sites, and divisional portal sites.
The portal makes it easy to connect to people that have the right skills, knowledge, and project experience within the organization. Office SharePoint Server 2007 simplifies the way in which people work together.
Content Management
The new and enhanced content management features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 address three areas:
Document Management
With the new document management components of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Products and Technologies no longer simply provide a platform for document collaboration. Office SharePoint Server 2007 becomes a full-featured solution for managing business documents.
Document Information Panel Makes editing document properties an integral part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system document authoring experience. Encourages users to enter and update properties associated with each type of business document.
Records Management
Every organization, whether privately held, publicly traded, or not-for-profit, needs a disciplined approach to record keeping. Proper records management is vital to an organization’s knowledge management, legal defense, and regulatory compliance. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 introduces features for creating and supporting formal records management capabilities in your organization
Records management is the process of collecting, managing, and disposing of corporate records (information deemed important for the history, knowledge, or legal defense of a company) in a consistent and uniform manner based on the company's policies. These policies are shaped by the work of the organization, its legal risks, and the laws and regulations that govern it.
Web Content Management
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 completely integrates Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 functionality and provides significantly enhanced Web content management functionality.
Search
The search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007 is significantly enhanced to provide a consistent and familiar search experience, increased relevance of search results, functions to search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data in line-of-business (LOB) applications, and improved manageability and extensibility.
Business Process
InfoPath Forms Services, either as part of Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007, helps organizations streamline forms-driven business processes with easy-to-use, intelligent, XML-based electronic forms that integrate smoothly with existing systems. This security-enhanced, client/server platform provides rapid-solution creation and deployment, centralizes form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers.
Business intelligence
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 helps organizations provide business intelligence (BI) capabilities to every employee, for sharing, control, and reuse of business information to make better business decisions. The BI features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide the following:
- Web and programmatic access to Office Excel workbooks through Excel Services
- Programmatic reuse of critical line-of-business (LOB) data through the Business Data Catalog
- Easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound key performance indicators (KPIs), Web Parts, and workbooks that can be hosted within the new
Report Center
