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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.

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