Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services (MOSS)

Benefits

The following section highlights the areas where MOSS can help your organization:

Collaboration

MOSS 2007 helps in sharing all the information, documents, ideas, and calendars from one place. It helps to manage projects and have a mobile access to the contents.

People and personalization

MOSS 2007 can connect to people within an organization to any personalized sites.

Search

The powerful search-related features in MOSS 2007 can be used to find exactly what you are looking for, such as the structured & unstructured information residing in MOSS and outside and search for people who have the expertise that you need to get your job done.

Content management

MOSS 2007 provides document management tasks, such as versioning, auditing, and workflow and extends these capabilities to deliver enhanced document authoring, business document processing, Web content management and publishing, records management, policy management, and support for multilingual publishing.

Business processes and forms

Business processes are at the center of any organization, and forms are often at the center of many business processes, such as the process of approving expense reports. MOSS 2007 provides built-in Workflow Templates (workflow: The automated movement of documents or items through a specific sequence of actions or tasks related to a business process. Workflows can be used to consistently manage common business processes, such as document approval or review) to help you automate your processes. Electronic forms provided through InfoPath Forms Services can help you to collect and validate information that drives your business processes.

Business intelligence

Traditionally, the tools for accessing large amounts of unstructured data for the purpose of analysis were available only to people with years of experience in data warehousing or data mining. Publishing to the Web by using data from multiple sources was historically restricted to developers and consultants. By using the new features available in MOSS 2007, information workers can assemble data from multiple sources and publish that data on the Web.