Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Juggling interactions between today’s business applications, the Web and enormous amounts of data is no easy task.  More and more companies are turning to portal solutions to help them manage mission-critical information, streamline operations, optimize costs and improve communications.  Portals enhance the ability to collaborate among team members, clients, partners and suppliers so that your business can be accessible from anywhere at anytime. 

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.  Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems.

Manage content and processes
Streamline everyday business processes that are a drain on organizational productivity by using electronic forms and out-of-the-box workflow processes that users can initiate, track, and participate in through familiar Microsoft Office applications, e-mail, or Web browsers.


Control documents through detailed, extensible policy management
Define customized document management policies to control access rights at a per-item level, specify retention period and expiration actions, and track content through document-auditing settings.

Centrally store, manage, and access documents across the enterprise
Organizations can store and organize all business documents and content in one central location, and users have a consistent mechanism to navigate and find relevant information.  Default repository settings can be modified to add workflow, define retention policies, and add new templates and content types.

Present business-critical information in one central location
Create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business information from Microsoft Dynamics or other disparate sources by using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies.

Quickly connect people with information
Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates people and business data along with documents and Web pages to provide more comprehensive results.  The Search Center provides a single integrated location for employees to find content, processes, people, and business data.

Unlock business data
The Business Data Catalog enables structured data from line-of-business applications such as Microsoft Dynamics to be integrated into Office SharePoint Server 2007 through Web Parts, lists, people profiles, search, or programmatically. Centrally managed connections to back-end systems can be defined once and then reused by end-users to access back-end data without writing any code — easily making business data part of portal content.  The Business Data Catalog also provides the ability for Enterprise Search to integrate back-end business data into the search experience.

Ubiquitous Enterprise Search
Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 has great relevance and incorporates enterprise content such as people and business data, along with documents and Web pages, to provide more comprehensive results.  Enterprise Search is ubiquitous in Office SharePoint Server 2007, with tight integration into SharePoint sites, Web Parts, SharePoint lists, people profiles, and more. Enterprise Search has the capability to search through business data from Microsoft Dynamics and other line-of-business applications.