Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) is a business productivity system that brings information management, collaboration, and people-driven processes into a familiar environment where people can work every day. People can benefit from a familiar and consistent single environment for all information and collaboration tasks which is easy to learn, use and personalise.

As an award-winning Microsoft Partner, Enlighten has the talent and track record to increase the efficiency of your business processes and improve productivity through the deployment of MOSS technologies. Enlighten is one of New Zealand’s most experienced team of SharePoint specialists. We have been working with various versions of SharePoint Server since the product was released in 2001.

 

MOSS is designed to help facilitate team collaboration, enhance productivity, enable enterprise content management and enterprise search, support business processes, automate workflows, manage information and improve access.

As outlined in the MOSS pie chart above, benefits delivered through SharePoint server include:

Simplified Internal and External Collaboration:

MOSS enables teams to work together more effectively by improving knowledge and information sharing. Key elements include:

• Blogs – create blogs that integrate with Office products for rich text and offline work
• Wikis – maintain organisational knowledge in Wikis with versioning controls and rollback abilities
• Familiar Tools - work within familiar Office products to update SharePoint workspaces
• Identity and Presence - integrate with Office Communicator to see who is online and quick search functionality for users

Dynamic Portal:

Design and manage enterprise intranet portals, corporate websites and divisional portal sites:

• RSS Feeds – RSS feeds can be enabled on all information lists and can be easily managed
• Self Service Workspaces – create and maintain browser based workspaces
• Outlook 2007 Integration – view and synchronise information through Outlook and utilise offline folders to work offline with documents
• Team calendars, events lists and tasks
• My Site – a personalised SharePoint page where users can store contact information, personal content and provide access to others
• Site Directory – tracks links to sites, displays site maps and site navigation lists and search capabilities

Quicker Search for wider range of Data:

A site-wide search provides an easy way to locate files and information:

• Search Box - scans for keywords through all site content, including discussions, tasks and libraries

Strong Control over Content:

Empower users while securing content and controlling data integrity:

• People and Groups - offer a unified place to find and manage people on your site. You can add people to groups and manage access permissions more efficiently
• Item Level Permissions: Access permissions can now be set at multiple levels, including new item and folder level security that ensures the integrity of files stored
• Document Lifecycle Management - enhanced new version with check-out and recycle bin features to help users monitor document changes and keep the document lifecycle intact
• Security-trimmed UI: administrators can control which links and buttons appear based on a specific user’s security profile and permission level

MOSS enables dispersed teams to find and use
information dynamically with improved access:

• Improved Navigation – new navigation links provide users with quick navigational context and a greater sense of location
• Microsoft Office Integration – users can directly interact with information stored on SharePoint sites while working with Microsoft Office files, without the need to download content separately
• Mobile Access – users can access task lists, blogs, documents and receive alerts as lists are edited
• Extranet Support – allowing team members to open content up to business partners and customers

Stronger Control over Business Processes:

MOSS integrates team collaboration in context of various business processes:

• Application Templates – tailored for various business processes: managing a help desk, tracking a marketing campaign, inventory tracking, business performance reporting and competitive analysis
• Integrated Process - users can associate workflows with content types, lists; initiate workflows automatically when items are edited and receive notification when a workflow requires interaction

Enhanced Business Intelligence:

Help organisations collect, analyse and exchange information to make better business decisions:

• Excel Server - Excel heavy businesses can share, manage and control Excel spreadsheets through server-calculated, interactive office Excel spreadsheets from a web browser
• Business Data Catalogue – provides SharePoint users seamless access to any form of external electronic data regardless of the format, structure or database platform

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