SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated set of rich features. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs.
we can also define SharePoint as: "SharePoint 2010 is a collaboration tool which connects & empowers people through its integrated set of rich features. "
But does this statement really reflect its real capabilities !!!
- To be closer we can say SharePoint 2010 facilitates business collaboration in its broadest sense and helps colleagues, partners, and customers to work together in new and effective ways.
Some of the business benefits with SharePoint 2010 are:
- SharePoint 2010 connects people through both formal and informal business communities, within the enterprise and beyond
- It enables to manage content throughout the information lifecycle
- It enhances search capabilities and enable users to quickly respond to the altering business requirements by making data-driven decisions & by deploying customized solutions
New inclusions!!!
Sharepoint 2010 comes packed with a host of technologies like:
SharePoint Foundation 2010 : It is the new version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint service
SharePoint designer 2010: Provides the designers with their tools of choice for rapid development of SharePoint application
SharePoint workspace 2010: It is the new name for Microsoft office groove that allows faster access to Microsoft SharePoint Team sites
Duet Enterprise: It is the joint solution from Microsoft & SAP enabling interoperability between SAP and SharePoint 2010
Let see the benefits for the different Stake holders in an organization:
IT professionals:
- Improved administration with profound operational insights
- A scalable service architecture allows to manage services( MySite, taxonomy, search) through a centralized administration
- Extensible architecture allows third party companies to build and add services to platform
Provides flexible deployment option with governance control
Developers:
- Provides a comprehensive collaboration platform with familiar tools, interoperable out of box features
- Developers can improve productivity with tools like Visual Studio 2010 & SharePoint designer 2010
- SharePoint 2010 provides new features for business collaboration for ex: Silver light hosting for user interfaces; Client object model; LINQ to SharePoint; data relationships; BCS; large list scalability,flexible deployment option
Partners:
- Collaboration, content management, enterprise search, business intelligence & web capabilities enable partners to deliver innovative and extensible solutions for customers.
- SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities like cloud service, new client side object model, advanced support for .NET & Silver light development & business connectivity open opportunities for partner solution
Why SharePoint 2010???
Comparison:: SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2007
- SharePoint 2010 works on 64 bit Share Point Server
- SharePoint 2010 makes updating content type easier
- It let users define the workflow with reusability
- SharePoint 2010 can associate SharePoint Designer workflows with content types
- It simplifies record management usage by using in place record management
- It provides hold & e discovery features to track external actions like litigation, investigation or audit
- It provides out of box support for compliancy
- It has improved quality of service making management of SharePoint much easier
Disclaimer : This is a personal weblog. The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer.
