Microsoft 2007 manual Top 10 Benefits

Top 10 Benefits

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an integrated suite of easy-to-use server applications that boost organizational effectiveness and optimize the way that people, content, processes, and business applications interact. Here are the top 10 ways Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization:

1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data. Employees can easily use services to accomplish business activities without having to depend on IT staff.

2. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities. Take advantage of OOB workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business processes such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection— without any coding. Modifying and extending these OOB processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft Visual Studio® and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage® 2003).

3.Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content. Help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively— and reduce litigation risk for your organization—by specifying retention and auditing policies for business records in accordance with compliance regulations. IRM and the content control mechanisms help protect proprietary and confidential information, even when users aren’t connected to a server.

4.Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value. Business users can easily author content for Web sites and submit it for approval and scheduled deployment to the Internet. Managing multilingual content is simplified in Office SharePoint Server 2007 through new document library templates specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original and translated versions of a document.

5.Simplify organization-wide access to structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.

Give users access to business data in common LOB systems like SAP and Siebel through OOB

connectors in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized interactions with business systems by dragging predefined, configurable back-end connections. Managed

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