Microsoft 2007 manual

Enhance customer and partner relationships

With smart, standards-based, electronic forms–driven solutions, you can collect business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration and support for other pluggable authentication providers makes it easier to implement extranet SharePoint environments, improving connectivity outside your organization.

Effectively manage and share business insight

Report Center provides a centralized location to access business-critical information. It simplifies control and sharing of reports, Office Excel spreadsheets, KPIs, and dashboards within organizations and teams. Users can define personalized reports and dashboards, browse reports by category, or view a calendar of upcoming reports and subscribe to ones that are relevant.

Use a Single, Integrated Platform to Manage Intranet, Extranet, and Internet Applications

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a scalable enterprise platform that can grow with your business without the need for costly add-ons. IT staff can spend more time on the strategic tasks only they can perform and help drive enhanced business value and positive change throughout your organization.

Boost employee productivity through innovative, enterprise-wide solutions

Make use of powerful development tools and an open, scalable architecture with support for Web services and interoperability standards, including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), to build and extend applications that incorporate business system information and integrated workflow.

Simplify site staging and content deployment

Use OOB site-starter templates for common Web sites, with Area and Page Layout templates and preconfigured navigation. Configure content deployment paths between different computers or the same computer. Schedule processes that define the scope of content and the frequency of recurring deployments.

Get the tools you need to ease deployment, management, and system administration

Robust system-monitoring and usage-tracking tools help to isolate and solve problems faster, and improve the operational efficiency of the system infrastructure.