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SharePoint Primary Features
SharePoint provides enterprise tools that connect people, processes, and information in a central loca-
tion. The following sections outline some of the more commonly used Enterprise features in SharePoint.
❑ Web Content Management: You use familiar applications, such as email or a web browser to
create and publish web content. Built-in tools make it easy to:
❑ Control documents via rights management and extensible policy management.
❑ Centrally create, store, and manage documents using built-in document library settings
to define workflow and retention settings or even add new content types.
❑ Manage web content using page layouts and master pages to create reusable templates
and variations to control multilingual content.
❑ Reduce the need for manual data entry with electronic web-based or InfoPath client-
based forms.
❑ Use workflow tools to automate content approval and publishing processes.
❑ Monitor Key Business Activities: Using enterprise tools, you can effectively manage and moni-
tor business events across your organization to:
❑ Manage critical business data through business intelligence portals using Dashboard
capabilities, key performance indicators, and a sophisticated Report Center.
❑ Quickly connect people with information using enterprise search. Use the Search Center
to find people and information in your SharePoint environment and external systems.
❑ Access important business information in real-time right from the browser, using fea-
tures such as the Business Data Catalog and Excel Services.
❑ Aggregate information from a wide variety of SharePoint sites onto a single page to
provide a personalized rollup of relevant information based on customizable criteria.
❑ Simplify Collaboration: SharePoint’s collaboration tools allow you to:
❑ Enhance customer and partner relationships by connecting them with important data
through intranet, extranet, and Internet-facing portals.
❑ Work offline with SharePoint lists and libraries using Outlook, making it easier to work
with information even when not connected to the corporate network.
❑ Use people networks to connect people inside and outside your organization, ensuring
that your organization has easy access to subject matter experts.
❑ Personalize operations using My Sites. Display personal information about colleagues,
managers, and groups.
Why Choose SharePoint ?
You commonly use SharePoint in enterprise-level organizations where you must track and maintain
operations via multiple mini-portals and business applications within the same main infrastructure. You
can then gather the important data from all units up to a central location. A common place you might see
SharePoint is a software support company. This section again presents the fictional company, Rossco
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