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MOSS Top 10 Benefits

Top 10 Benefits of
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly integrated with familiar client desktop applications, e-mail, and Web browsers to
provide a consistent user experience that simplifies how people interact with content, processes, and business data. This
tight integration, coupled with robust out-of-the-box functionality, helps you employ services themselves and facilitates
product adoption.

2. Boost employee productivity activities.

Take advantage of out-of-the-box work flows for initiating, tracking, and reporting common business activities such as
document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. You can complete these activities without any
coding. Tight integration with familiar client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers provide you with a simple, consistent
experience. Modifying and extending these out-of-the-box work flow processes is made easy through tools like Microsoft
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the next release of Microsoft Office FrontPage).

3. Help meet regulatory requirements through control.

By specifying security settings, storage policies, auditing policies, and expiration actions for business records in accordance
with compliance regulations, you can help ensure your sensitive business information can be controlled and managed
effectively. And you can reduce litigation risk for your organization. Tight integration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 with
familiar desktop applications means that policy settings are rendered onto client applications in the Microsoft Office system,
making it simpler for employees to be aware of and comply with regulatory requirements.

4. Effectively manage content to gain business value.

Business users and content authors can create and submit content for approval and scheduled deployment to intranet or
Internet sites. Managing multilingual content is simplified through new document library templates that are specifically
designed to maintain a relationship between the original version and different translations of a document.

5. Simplify organization-wide access.

Give your users access to business data found in common line-of-business systems like SAP and Siebel through Office
SharePoint Server 2007. Users can also create personalized views and interactions with business systems through a browser
by dragging configurable back-end connections. Enterprise-wide Managed Document Repositories help your organizations
store and organize business documents in one central location.

6. Connect people with information and expertise.

Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates business data along with information about documents,
people, and Web pages to produce comprehensive, relevant results. Features like duplicate collapsing, spelling correction,
and alerts improve the relevance of the results, so you can easily find what you need.

7. Accelerate shared business processes.

Without coding any custom applications, you can use smart, electronic forms–driven solutions to collect critical business
information from customers, partners, and suppliers through a Web browser. Built-in data validation rules help you gather
accurate and consistent data that can be directly integrated into back-end systems to avoid redundancy and errors that result
from manual data re-entry.

8. Share business data securely.

Give your employees access to real-time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser through Excel
Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central
and up-to-date version while helping to protect any proprietary information embedded in the documents (such as financial
models).

9. Business-critical information in one central location.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and
display business-critical information from disparate sources, using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts,
scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites
give users a single place for locating the latest reports, spreadsheets, or KPIs.

10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on an open, scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability
standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The server has rich, open application programming
interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. These features provide integration with existing systems and the
flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments.

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