SharePoint

SharePoint is a web-based, collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. Launched in
2001,[3]SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product
is highly configurable and usage varies substantially between organizations.

Microsoft states that SharePoint has 190 million users across 200,000 customer organizations.[4]

SharePoint Standard[edit]
Microsoft SharePoint Standard builds on the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation in a few key product
areas.

 Sites: Audience targeting, governance tools, Secure store service, web analytics functionality.[6]
 Communities: 'MySites' (personal profiles including skills management, and search tools),
enterprise wikis, organization hierarchy browser, tags and notes.[7]
 Content: Improved tooling and compliance for document & record management, managed
metadata, word automation services, content type management.[8]
 Search: Better search results, search customization abilities, mobile search, 'Did you mean?',
OS search integration, Faceted Search, and metadata/relevancy/date/location-based refinement
options.[9]
 Composites: Pre-built workflow templates, BCS profile pages.[10]

SharePoint Standard licensing includes a CAL (client access license) component and a server fee.
SharePoint Standard may also be licensed through a cloud model.

Applications[edit]

SharePoint usage varies from organization to organization. The product encompasses a wide variety
of capabilities, most of which require configuration and governance.[15]

The most common uses of the SharePoint include:

Enterprise Content and Document Management[edit]

Main articles: Enterprise content management and document management

SharePoint allows for storage, retrieval, searching, archiving, tracking, management, and reporting
on of electronic documents and records. Many of the functions in this product are designed around
various legal, information management, and process requirements in organizations. SharePoint also
provides search and 'graph' functionality.[16] SharePoint's integration with Microsoft
Windows and Microsoft Office allow for collaborative real-time editing, and encrypted/information
rights managed synchronization.
This capability is often used to replace an existing corporate file server, and is typically coupled with
an enterprise content management policy.[17]

Intranet and Social Network[edit]

Main articles: Intranet portal and Social Network

A SharePoint intranet or intranet portal is a way to centralize access to enterprise information and
applications. It is a tool that helps an organization manage its internal communications, applications
and information more easily. Microsoft claims that this has organizational benefits such as
increased employee engagement, centralizing process management, reducing new staff on-
boarding costs, and providing the means to capture and share tacit knowledge (e.g. via tools such
as wikis).

Collaborative Software[edit]
SharePoint contains team collaboration groupware capabilities, including: Project
scheduling (integrated with Outlook and Project), social collaboration, shared mailboxes, and project
related document storage and collaboration. Groupware in SharePoint is based around the concept
of a "Team Site".

File Hosting Service (Personal Cloud)[edit]

Main articles: Personal Cloud and File hosting service

SharePoint Server hosts OneDrive for Business, which allows storage and synchronization of an
individual's personal documents, as well as public/private file sharing of those documents. This is
typically combined with other Microsoft Office Servers/Services such as Microsoft Exchange, to
produce a "personal cloud",

This capability is often compared to services like Box or Dropbox.

WebDAV can be used to access files without using the web interface. However, Microsoft's
implementation of WebDAV doesn't conform to the official WebDAV protocol and therefore isn't
compliant to the WebDAV standard. For example, WebDAV applications have to support the
language tagging functionality of the XML specification[18] which Microsoft's implementation doesn't.
Only Windows XP to Windows 8 are supported.[19]

Custom Web Applications[edit]

Main article: Software framework

SharePoint's custom development capabilities provide an additional layer of services that allow rapid
prototyping of integrated (typically line-of-business) web applications.[20] SharePoint provides
developers with integration into corporate directories and data sources through standards such as
REST/OData/OAuth. Enterprise application developers use SharePoint's security and information
management capabilities across a variety of development platforms and scenarios. SharePoint also
contains an enterprise "app store" that has different types of external applications with encapsulated
and managed to access to resources such as corporate user data and document data.

Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics

Developer(s) Microsoft

Preview release None

Development status Active - Existing Customers Only

Operating system Microsoft Windows

Type enterprise resource

planning and customer relationship

management

Website www.microsoft.com/dynamics