Introducing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Connecting people, process, and information

 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a server application that is part of the Microsoft Office system. Your organisation can use it to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and provide access to information that is essential to organisational goals and processes.

 

You can quickly create SharePoint sites that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyse large amounts of business data.

 

In addition, Office SharePoint Server is designed to work effectively with other programs, servers, and technologies in the latest Office release. For example, in many Office release programs, you can initiate or participate in workflows, which are the automated movements of documents or items through specific sequences of actions or tasks that are related to a business process, such as the approval process for an expense report.

 

Below are a some examples of how specific Office release programs work with Office SharePoint Server:

 

  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint: Create a library of PowerPoint slides that can be shared with other users on an Office SharePoint Server site.
  • Microsoft Office Access: Take a SharePoint list off-line and use the reporting features in Office Access to view the data and create reports while travelling. Forms and reports that use the SharePoint list are fully interactive — and Office Access can later synchronize the local list with the online list when you bring your laptop back online.
  • Microsoft Office Outlook: Take document libraries off-line. SharePoint folders are displayed just as other Outlook folders are.
  • Microsoft Office InfoPath: Design browser-compatible form templates, publish them to an Office SharePoint Server site, and enable them for use in a Web browser.
  • Microsoft Office Excel: Save worksheets on a SharePoint site so that users can access them by using a browser. You can use these worksheets to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version, while helping to protect any proprietary information, such as financial models, that is embedded in the worksheet.
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer: Create and customize Office SharePoint Server sites and workflows. Create your own master pages and content pages, so that your site has a consistent look and feel, or customize sites by using the latest ASP.NET technology, established Web standards such as Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) code, and cascading style sheets.

Use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to gain better control and insight over your content, streamline your business processes, and share information with others in your organisation.

 

How we can help ....

At Beacon, our team of consultants and software developers have experience in working with Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies and can help you with all your consulting, development, migration and integration needs.