WSS 3.0 – Top 10 Benefits
1. Improve team productivity with easy-to-use collaborative tools
Users can create team workspaces, coordinate calendars, organise documents, and receive important notifications and updates through communication features including announcements and alerts, as well as the new templates for creating blogs and wikis.
2. Easily manage documents and help ensure integrity of content
WSS 3.0 provides enhanced document management capabilities including the option to activate required document checkout before editing, the ability to view revisions to documents and restore to previous versions, and the control to set document- and item-level security.
3. Get users up to speed quickly
WSS 3.0 features enhanced views and menus that simplify navigation within and among SharePoint sites. Integration with familiar productivity tools, including programs in the Microsoft Office system, makes it easy for users to get up to speed quickly.
4. Deploy solutions tailored to your business processes
While standard workspaces in WSS 3.0 are easy to implement, organisations seeking a more customised deployment can get started quickly with application templates for addressing specific business processes or sets of tasks.
5. Build a collaboration environment quickly and easily
WSS 3.0 is easy to manage and easy to scale, enablng IT departments to deploy a collaborative environment with minimal administrative time and effort, from simple, single-server configurations to more robust enterprise configurations.
6. Reduce the complexity of securing business information
WSS 3.0 provides IT with advanced administrative controls for increasing the security of information resources, while decreasing cost and complexity associated with site provisioning, site management, and support.
7. Provide sophisticated controls for securing company resources
IT departments can now set permissions as deep down as the document or item level, and site managers, teams, and other work groups can initiate self-service collaborative workspaces and tasks within these preset parameters.
8. Take file sharing to a new level with robust storage capabilities
WSS 3.0 supplies workspaces with document storage and retrieval features, including check-in/check-out functionality, version history, custom metadata, and customizable views.
9. Easily scale your collaboration solution to meet business needs
Quickly and easily manage and configure WSS 3.0 using a Web browser or command-line utilities. Manage server farms, servers, and sites using the Microsoft .NET Framework, which enables a variety of custom and third-party administration solution offerings.
10. Provide a cost-effective foundation for building Web-based applications
WSS 3.0 exposes a common framework for document management and collaboration from which flexible and scalable Web applications and Internet sites, specific to the needs of the organisation, can be built. Integration with MOSS 2007 expands these capabilities further to offer enterprise-wide functionality for records management, search, workflows, portals, personalised sites, and more.