Windows SharePoint Services
Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology included in Windows Server 2003 that enables organizations and business units of all sizes to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to documents and information they need. With a familiar, Web-based interface and close integration with everyday tools including the Microsoft Office system of productivity programs, Windows SharePoint Services is easy to use and can be deployed rapidly. Users can create workspaces and then publish, store, share, and keep track of information, workflow, and documents.
Built on Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also gives organizations a cost-effective foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that can scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of business. Robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage a high-performance collaboration environment.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 gives developers the programmability support they need for server administration and application extensibility and interoperability. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 helps organizations by enabling the following:
Teams to stay connected and be more productive by providing access to the people, documents, and information they need.
Collaboration solutions to be deployed more easily and integrate with everyday, familiar tools such as the Microsoft Office system applications.
IT staff to more easily manage, control, and secure information resources using a highly scalable infrastructure with powerful administration services.
Increased business process efficiency by making it easy to create versatile Web applications and workflow solutions using a cost-effective, highly extensible platform.
The Windows SharePoint Services platform services provide the following security-enhanced, scalable and reliable, high-performance capabilities to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which implements this platform:
Storage
Management
Deployment
Site Model
Extensibility