SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform that enables you to connect and empower people through formal and informal business communities, within the enterprise and beyond, and to manage content effectively throughout the information lifecycle.
The consolidation of collaboration solutions onto SharePoint 2010 makes it possible to cut costs through lower training costs, increased IT productivity and cost-effective maintenance, all within a governable and compliant platform.
Whether deployed on-premise or as hosted services, these integrated capabilities are enhanced by Search technologies and make it possible to rapidly respond to business needs based on data-driven business insight and faster solutions development and deployment.
Microsoft SharePoint makes working together easier for people. Your organization can create and run Web sites to share information, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports that help make better decisions.
SharePoint provides an information-sharing platform, document management platform, workflow platform, business process management framework, business intelligence, and development foundation on which information worker solutions can be created. Comprehensive business solutions can be easily assembled to support a company’s information management and business needs.
SharePoint can be used in an organization to:
- Connect people with colleagues and information through communities, so they can share knowledge and ideas.
- Manage and govern enterprise content while balancing user experience with policy and process.
- Respond to changing business needs by making data-driven decisions.
- Help users find the content, information, and people they need with enterprise search.
All versions of SharePoint offer solutions across a range of business issues:
Provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web sites. Share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and publish information to customers.
Delivers great collaboration tools—and a single platform to manage them. Make it easy for people to share ideas and work together the way they want.
Makes content management easy. Set up compliance measures ”behind the scenes”—with features like document types, retention polices, and automatic content sorting—and then let people work naturally in Microsoft Office.
Cuts through the clutter. A unique combination of relevance, refinement, and social cues helps people find the information and contacts they need to get their jobs done.
Gives everyone access to the information in databases, reports, and business applications. Help people locate the information they need to make good decisions
Offers tools and components for creating do-it-yourself business solutions. Build no-code solutions to rapidly respond to business needs.