Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables enterprises to
develop an intelligent portal that seamlessly connects users, teams, and
knowledge so that people can take advantage of relevant information
across business processes to help them work more efficiently. SharePoint
Portal Server 2003 provides an enterprise business solution that
integrates information from various systems into one solution through
single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities, with
flexible deployment options and management tools. The portal facilitates
end-to-end collaboration by enabling aggregation, organization, and
search capabilities for people, teams, and information. Users can find
relevant information quickly through customization and personalization
of portal content and layout, as well as by audience targeting.
Organizations can target information, programs, and updates to audiences
based on their organizational role, team membership, interest, security
group, or any other membership criteria that can be defined.
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 uses Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
2003 sites to create portal pages for people, information, and
organizations. The portal also extends the capabilities of Microsoft
Windows SharePoint Services sites with organization and management
tools, and enables teams to publish information in their sites to the
entire organization.
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables a single point of access to
multiple systems such as Microsoft Office System programs, business
intelligence and project management systems, and existing
line-of-business applications, including third-party and
industry-specific programs. The portal, built on a scalable, highly
distributed architecture, provides flexible tools for deployment,
development, and management, all of which enable the portal to grow with
your organization's needs. These integration features enable you to
harness information to make use of your company's resources. Users can
extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and
reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects, and best
practices across the company. The portal features search technology
developed by Microsoft Research that enables you to search file shares,
Web servers, Microsoft Exchange Server public folders, Lotus Notes, and
Windows SharePoint Services sites out of the box. In addition, you can
organize documents and information by topic and browse for relevant
content. Alerts notify you when new information is added or existing
information changes to help you better use the data.
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides a powerful team collaboration
environment that enables organizations to aggregate, organize, find, and
provision SharePoint sites across the enterprise. SharePoint sites for
teams, documents, and meetings can also be extended to customers and
partners, augmenting the reach and efficiency of existing collaboration
methods. The portal further facilitates end-to-end collaboration by
delivering document and content collaboration to individuals, teams,
business units, and the enterprise. Document versioning, approval
workflow, check in and check out, document profiling, and publishing
facilitate easy collaboration on documents, projects, and tasks. In
addition, the portal enables information workers to easily find and make
use of people, teams, and existing best practices - rather than reinvent
the wheel with each project.
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables IT departments and users to
customize and personalize the portal experience. Relevant content, such
as line-of-business and Office programs, Web services, news, sales, and
other company data, is delivered to the portal through Web Parts. Web
Parts can be downloaded from Microsoft and industry partners by IT
departments, or they can be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET. Authorized users can add Web Parts to organizational or divisional
portals from Web Part galleries, without the need for any Web
development experience. In addition, IT departments can "lock down"
specific Web Parts or page zones so that organizations can distribute
important information to all employees through the portal. Users are
also provided personal portal pages, called My Site, where they can
organize the information, programs, and SharePoint sites they access
throughout the day.
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