sharepoint
SharePoint is a a web application platform developed by Microsoft and first launched in 2001. It is available in over 30 languages. While regularly used for web content management systems, the SharePoint platform actually has much broader capabilities and can be used to provide viable solutions in a range of areas.
SharePoint's design allows for wide spectrum operations, such as the management of intranet portals, collaboration spaces, extranets, document and file management, websites, social tools, enterprise search, business intelligence, system integration, process integration and core infrastructure for third-party solutions, while also being a platform for custom applications.
Microsoft offers the SharePoint Foundation platform free of charge, but will charge for premium editions with special features. SharePoint is also provided in Microsoft's cloud computing, as part of the company's Office 365 platform. Some third-party vendors may also sell the platform as a cloud solution.
One of the many applications of SharePoint includes an intranet portal, as a means of centralizing access to information and various applications across a corporate network. This is a commonly used tool which helps companies manage data with greater ease. Some of the benefits associated with intranets are increased employee engagement and reduced new staff on-boarding costs.
Enterprise content management with SharePoint enables companies to store and track different virtual documents, or images or paper documents. It can also help organize different versions of the same document. SharePoint can thus help reduce email flow within an organization, as well as optimize document tracking.
SharePoint has an extranet feature which allows password-protected access to a network for people outside the organization. Companies will usually use extranet as a means of integrating third-parties into different business processes.
SharePoint also has a "Publish" feature which enables web masters to manage large public websites with ease. Moreover, SharePoints' user friendly interface is familiar to regular users of Microsoft Office.
Its web configuration and customization abilities allow users to arrange content, pages and sites; create, copy and delete lists, pages, sites and libraries; in addition to managing user permissions and managing definitions and properties of pages and websites. In simpler terms, SharePoint provides all the necessary tools to manipulate content and pages, as well as add new functionality to websites.
You'll find bloggers talking about SharePoint at sites like blogs.technet.com.
Original Technorati articles tagged “sharepoint”
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in BusinessIs SharePoint 2010 Ready for Social Business? Nope!

10 years later, SharePoint still lacks basic social business capabilitiesby lbenitez / on Jun 23, 2011 -
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Set Web Applications outgoing email address
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from Secret of #SharePoint – Tip of the Day You can use #PowerShell to set a Web Applications outgoing email address and SMTP Server. Simply use the Set-SPWebApplication cmdlet. PS > Set-SPWebApplication -Identity http://SP01 ` >> -OutgoingEmailAddress mail@domain.com ` >> … Continue reading →1 day ago -
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I need a development team to build the application that I have designed. It will : **** Automate data storage and processing. **** Workflows will be pre defined and totally customisable. **** Data of company workflow breakdown… (Budget: $250-$750 USD, Jobs: .NET, C# Programming, PHP, Sharepoint, Software ...1 day ago -
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The SQL Server team blog has posted recently about customers using SQL Server 2012 today . This post has five case studies of big customers who are on the early adopters programs for SQL Server, putting to use the new features of SQL Server 2012. Source: ...3 days ago -
Wine and Shine: Be Agile with Mobile BI
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February 23, 2012 AON Center, Chicago IL With the extending usage and reach of organizations’ existing BI infrastructure to mobile devices, they are able to respond faster and more efficiently to market changes and their client needs. This fast-tracks time-to-information for key business decisions, while ...4 days ago -
Inconvenient using widgets in SharePoint for end users
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It’s a common approach to use widgets to enrich web solutions. Unfortunately using widgets with SharePoint 2010 has a number of challenges. Find out why using widgets with SharePoint is inconvenient and how you can simplify it. Widgets – they’re everywhere In the last few years many web services started ...1 week ago -
Previewing Information Management in 2012
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Every New Year affords us the opportunity to dust down our collective crystal balls and predict what we think will be the key trends and technologies dominating our respective coverage areas over the coming 12 months. We at 451 Research just published our 2012 Preview report; at almost 100 pages it’s a monster, but ...1 week ago -
Dew Drop – January 26, 2012 (#1,251)
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SharePoint 2010 SOAP Service Error (The top XML element string...)
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Today we were experimenting with SharePoint 2010 CSOM (Client Side Object Model) and we noticed strange errors such as HTTP ERROR 417 were returned. When browsing to Lists.asmx and Sites.asmx we got the following error: The top XML element string from namespace http://schemas.microsoft.com/sha... (More)1 week ago -
Interesting SharePoint Articles
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1. Managing Value for SharePoint Solutions URL: http://www.sharepointgeoff.com/managing-value-for-sharepoint-solutions/ 2. Start Managing Your Projects on SharePoint Today! (Via William Guinan) URL: ...1 week ago -
Maximise SharePoint Value using the “Start Your Day” Game
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Background I recently ran a very quick overview presentation (find it on SlideShare ) of Innovation Games to the East Anglia SharePoint User Group. The aim of the 1 hour session was to give a little insight into where SharePoint project challenges are and how, through the use of Serious Games techniques, such as ...1 week ago -
Dew Drop–January 24, 2012 – (#1,249)
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Sharepoint
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Are You Sure Sharepoint is Really Effective? Read This First! Let me ask you some questions first. In your opinion, do you know about Sharepoint ? Well, for some people business is something that plays an important role in their life. Or it can be said that without business it means nothing. That is why there are ...1 week ago -
Cartoon: SharePoint Stakeholder Fog of Despair!
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We all have those SharePoint projects where life would be great if the client stakeholders stopped arguing with each other and actually got on with delivering value for their organisation… Take some solace in the fact that you are not alone… Take some advice from 21apps and let us help you clear the mists ...1 week ago -
Interesting SharePoint Articles
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1. SharePoint 2010 | Copy text to clipboard (Via Varun Malhotra) URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/varun_malhotra/archive/2012/01/22/sharepoint-2010-copy-text-to-clipboard.aspx 2. Why You Need SharePoint Training URL: http://elucidate.org/2012/01/why-you-need-sharepoint-training/ 3. COMPANIES URGED TO DISCOURAGE POOR ...1 week ago -
Instalando Granja de Servidores SharePoint 2010
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Para un programador SharePoint es importante conocer la arquitectura de la plataforma y en ese sentido realizar un proceso de instalación de una granja SharePoint es un deber. En esta ocasión quiero compartir como lograr en una topología llamada Small Farm (Three Tier). Básicamente tenemos un software ...1 week ago -
Microsoft Office 2010 Blue EditionWith Activation
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Download Microsoft Office 2010 offers powerful new ways to deliver the best work – whether you’re at work, at home or in school – the computer’s web browser, or smartphone. Engage your audience’s attention and provide them with their ideas with enhanced tools The structure includes: - Microsoft Word 2010 - ...1 week ago -
Case study: Embedding cloud SSO portal into Sharepoint
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Edutechnow Launches Business Arm
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Edutechnow has been blogging about ICT in education for a number of years, sharing all of my ups and down with the world has been great and, with any luck, will continue to carry on for many more years. Today though, I am pleased to announce the launch of Edutechnow, the business. Taking all of … Continue reading ...1 week ago -
The SharePoint Language Store
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We feel the SharePoint Language Store ( http://splanguagestore.codeplex.com/ ) is an interesting idea for situations where you don’t want (or are not allowed to) to roll out a new resource file every time there is a change in the UI multilingual text.1 week ago -
SharePoint Saturday Austin Session
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SharePoint Saturday Austin was terrific! I am grateful for all the speakers that traveled to Austin as well as the attendees (some from as far away as Nebraska!) that came and made it a wonderful collaborative and educational day. We could not have done it without the sponsors and volunteers. All in all an amazing ...1 week ago


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