Overview of the Major SharePoint Functions
SharePoint currently offers these major categories of software functionality:
· Collaboration – allows internal and/or external teams of people collaborating on and publishing documents, tasks list, calendars, web site templates, and workflows. These teams can either be internal staff located in remote locations, or they can be external resources from customers, vendors, or business partners.
· Web Site Portals – provide categories of uses secured access to web sites, tailoring the information that can be accessed based on category of the user, or based on other business rules
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· Content Management – the ability to create, publish, and manage content regardless whether it exists in discreet documents or is published on web site pages
· Workflows – the ability to define and monitor a series of steps that are required for individual business processes, assign resource responsibility for each step of each process, and assign a planned elapsed time for each step of each process. Automatic triggers can also be defined so that if any step is not completed in the planned elapsed time, a notice can be automatically generated and sent to a designated management resource.
· Business Processes & Forms – the ability to implement forms based business processes using standard web browsers. It also includes accessing data stored and maintained within business applications such as enterprise management software or customer relationship management software
· Business Intelligence – the ability to generate real time business performance metrics based on information maintained in business application data repositories
· SharePoint Management – the ability to manage the access to critical, or sensitive, information for both internal users and external users.
· SharePoint Platform Capabilities