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document repositories help organizations store and organize business documents in one
central location.
6. Connect people with information and expertise.
SharePoint Enterprise Search incorporates business data with information about people,
documents, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Rich search
functionality like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improves the relevance
of the results and helps users easily find what they need within the search results.
7. Accelerate business processes and maintain control of your electronic forms
environment.
Use smart, electronic forms-driven solutions to collect critical business information from
customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser without coding any custom
applications. Built-in data validation rules help you accurately and consistently gather data
that can be directly integrated into back-end systems, avoiding redundancy and errors
resulting from manual data re-entry.
8. Share business data while preserving its consistency and helping to protect
sensitive information.
Give employees access to real-time, interactive Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web
browser through Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use these
spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version while helping
to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents.
9. Facilitate better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in
one central location.
Make it easy to create live, interactive BI portals that assemble and display business-critical
information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web
Parts, scorecards, KPIs, and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report
Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.
10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet
applications across the enterprise.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 has an open, scalable, services-oriented architecture that
provides support for interoperability standards including XML and SOAP, which makes it
easier to integrate with existing processes and applications. You also get powerful, IT-focused
tools and templates for building and extending applications that incorporate business system
information and integrated workflow.