SharePoint

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.