SharePoint Top 10 Benefits

Symbiosys Business Solutions can help users achieve some key benefits from their MOSS 2007 implementation.

1. Ensure a simple, consistent user interface
MOSS 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data.

2. Boost productivity
Take advantage of out-of-the-box workflows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. Modifying and extending these out-of-the-box workflow processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

3. Meet compliance requirements
By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance with compliance regulations, we can help ensure that your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed effectively.

4. Manage and repurpose content
Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.

5. Simplify access to structured and unstructured information
Give users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through MOSS 2007. Users can also create personalised views and interactions with business systems through a browser by dragging configurable back-end connections. Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help organisations store and organise business documents in one central location.

6. Connect people with information
Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007 incorporates business data along with information about documents, people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction, and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need.

7. Accelerate shared business processes
Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result from manual data re-entry.

8. Share business data confidentially
Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel Services running on MOSS 2007. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents (such as financial models).

9. Let people make better decisions
MOSS 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.

10. Implement one platform for internet, intranet and extranet applications
MOSS 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.