SoftGistics Collaborative Workplace Portals Services
SoftGistics helps businesses achieve their collaborative workplace initiatives
by providing access to business process professionals that have the experience, expertise
and resources to assist businesses with all tasks related to Collaborative Workplace Portal implementations.
SharePoint Team Services!
Windows SharePoint Services allows teams to create Web sites for information sharing and document
collaboration, benefits that help increase individual and team productivity. Windows SharePoint
Services is a component of the Windows Server 2003 information worker infrastructure and provides
team services and sites to Microsoft Office System and other desktop programs.
Windows SharePoint Services also serves as a platform for application development. Including such
IT resources as portals, team workspaces, e-mail, presence awareness, and Web-based conferencing,
Windows SharePoint Services enables users to locate distributed information quickly and efficiently,
as well as connect to and work with others more productively. Next Steps
Windows SharePoint Services: A Strategic Value
Effective information sharing and collaboration is rapidly becoming a strategic platform advantage,
but that advantage can be compromised if collaboration technologies are deployed in a piecemeal fashion.
Microsoft's guiding vision of integrated innovation delivers a comprehensive set of technologies that
are designed to work together-from Windows Server 2003 with Windows SharePoint Services to a full
set of plug-and-play enterprise application servers, smart client applications such as Microsoft
Office 2003, and industry-leading development tools.
This unified platform provides the following advantages:
- Rich out-of-the-box functionality, assuring IT
professionals of quick, cost-effective deployment..
- Incremental deployment options, enabling IT professionals to implement
collaboration capabilities within their organization's
timeframe and budget.
- Easy and cost-effective extensibility, enabling IT
professionals to build organization-specific solutions
and develop managed, hosted services connecting
customers, partners, and suppliers.
- Integration with familiar tools, enabling users to quickly and easily share
information and collaborate with peers.
- Organization-wide standards, providing persistent security, management, and integration on a scalable platform.
How Windows SharePoint Services Works
Windows SharePoint Services sites take file storage to a new level, providing communities for team
collaboration and making it easy for users to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and
other information. In addition, team and site managers can coordinate site content and user activity
easily. The Windows SharePoint Services environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment,
administration, and application development.
Team Community
SharePoint sites provide places to capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents.
The sites facilitate team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration, and surveys. Site
content is accessible from both a Web browser and through clients that support Web Services. The document
collaboration features allow for easy check in, check out, and document version control.
Individual Empowerment
SharePoint site members can find and communicate with key contacts and experts, both by e-mail and with
instant messaging. Site content can be easily searched, and users can also receive alerts to tell them
when existing documents and information have been changed, or when new information or documents have been
added. Site content and layout can be personalized on a per-user basis, and Web Parts can be used to
present targeted information to specific users on precise topics.
Microsoft Office System programs use SharePoint site content. All of a site's collaborative content-for
example, documents, lists, events, task assignments, and membership rosters-can be read and edited within
Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Picture
editing of Web-based photo libraries is also possible. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 allows SharePoint
site event calendars to be viewed side-by-side with personal calendars, and it also creates meeting-specific
workspaces to augment group appointments.
Management Enabler
SharePoint site managers can customize the content and layout of sites to ensure that site members can access
and work with important and relevant information. Members' participation can also be monitored and moderated
when necessary. Security and task responsibilities are both flexible and easily accessible. Well-designed lists
and entire sites can be saved as templates and reused by individuals, teams, or business units across an
organization.
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