Microsoft 2007 manual Accelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes

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Accelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes

Make business process initiation, participation, tracking, and reporting easy and flexible by providing a simple, consistent user experience through familiar client applications. Optimize the way people, content, and processes interact within and across organizations.

Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities

Take advantage of workflows to automate and gain more visibility into common business activities like document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. Integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers simplifies the user experience. End users can easily define and model their own processes using familiar Microsoft tools.

Extend business processes across the organization

Enhance your relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers by making forms-based business processes easily accessible to them, even if they haven’t installed client software. Built-in validation rules and integration with Microsoft information rights management (IRM) help to ensure that critical business information can be collected with enhanced security and accuracy.

Focus on strategic, value-added tasks instead of redundant activities Information gathered using electronic forms can be integrated easily into line-of-business (LOB) systems, stored in document libraries, used to start workflow processes, or submitted to Web services. This helps users avoid duplicate efforts and costly errors from manual data entry, and it helps ensure they have access to accurate, real-time data.

Make Better-Informed Decisions through Centralized Access to Information

Provide a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently find organizational resources, access corporate knowledge, and leverage business insight in order to make better-informed decisions.

Present business-critical information in one central location

Create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies.

Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place to find the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.

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Contents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Evaluation Guide Abstract Table of Contents Introduction Overview of This Guide How to Use This GuideResources Available for Evaluating Office SharePoint Server Page Product Overview Effectively Manage and Repurpose Your Information AssetsAccelerate Internal and External Shared Business Processes Page Page Top 10 Benefits Page Features at a Glance PortalIt easier to discover social networking connections between Way video conversation Content Management Document Management Records Management Include Managing e-mail content across Microsoft Office Outlook Web Content Management Important company information to customers, partners Services for the end-to-end content management of content Search Improved rendering of search results Support for indexing and searching any Ldap directory Improved crawl rules and crawl log Business Processes Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form Business Intelligence Back-end systems in SharePoint lists, Web Parts, pages, By the new Report Center, provide consistent management Architectural Overview Office SharePoint Server 2007 ArchitectureOperating System and Database Services Windows SharePoint ServicesOffice SharePoint Server 2007 Applications and Services Server ApplicationsShared Services Installing Your Evaluation Server Product Tour An Administrator’s Perspective Developer’s Perspective For More Information Hardware and Software Requirements For complete system requirements, visit
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