Friday, February 5, 2010

What is SharePoint?

Sharepoint at its core is a portal that offers features for people to share data, information and knowledge. It can be and important tool in your knowledge management strategy.

The basic portal and sharing features are provided by SharePoint Services which is offered for free by Microsoft.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is an extended version of SharePoint the provides more enterprise features which Microsoft licenses.

Some of the extended features include:

  • Search
  • Web Content Management
  • Social Networking
  • My Sites
  • Electronic Forms
  • Business Intelligence