The Future of ICT

Microsoft cycle of innovation continues to deliver high as always. SharePoint 2010 is the new collaboration platform from Microsoft as a successor of SharePoint 2007.
The question knocking your head must be:
o How am I going to benefit with it?
o How is it superior from SharePoint 2007?
o How much will it cost?
o Does it require additional Hardware support? ….. and many more

Let explore more about SharePoint 2010…

What is SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint 2010 is a collaboration tool which connects & empowers people through its integrated set of rich features.
But does this statement really reflect its real capabilities!!!
To be closer we can say sharepoint applications facilitates business collaboration in its broadest sense and helps colleagues, partners, and customers to work together in new and effective ways.

Some of the business benefits with SharePoint 2010 are:

 SharePoint 2010 connects people through both formal and informal business communities, within the enterprise and beyond
 It enables to manage content throughout the information lifecycle
 It enhances search capabilities and enable users to quickly respond to the altering business requirements by making data-driven decisions & by deploying customized solutions
 It lowers training & maintenance costs and increases IT productivity

New inclusions!!!

SharePoint 2010 comes packed with a host of technologies like:
 SharePoint Foundation 2010 : It is the new version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint service
 SharePoint designer 2010: Provides the designers with their tools of choice for rapid development of SharePoint application
 SharePoint workspace 2010: It is the new name for Microsoft office groove that allows faster access to Microsoft SharePoint Team sites
 Duet Enterprise: It is the joint solution from Microsoft & SAP enabling interoperability between SAP and SharePoint 2010

Let see the benefits for the different Stake holders in an organization:
IT professionals:
• Improved administration with profound operational insights
• A scalable service architecture allows to manage services( MySite, taxonomy, search) through a centralized administration
• Extensible architecture allows third party companies to build and add services to platform
• Provides flexible deployment option with governance control
Developers:
• Provides a comprehensive collaboration platform with familiar tools, interoperable out of box features
• Developers can improve productivity with tools like Visual Studio 2010 & SharePoint designer 2010
• SharePoint 2010 provides new features for business collaboration for ex: Silver light hosting for user interfaces; Client object model; LINQ to SharePoint; data relationships; BCS; large list scalability
• Developers enjoy a flexible deployment option
Partners:
• Collaboration, content management, enterprise search, business intelligence & web capabilities enable partners to deliver innovative and extensible solutions for customers
• SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities like cloud service, new client side object model, advanced support for .NET & Silver light development & business connectivity open opportunities for partner solution
• Microsoft partner programs strengthen opportunities and capabilities to help serve the customer better

Why sharepoint 2010???
Comparison:: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 & Microsoft SharePoint 2007
• SharePoint 2010 works on 64 bit Share Point Server
• SharePoint 2010 makes updating content type easier
• It let users define the workflow with reusability
• SharePoint 2010 can associate SharePoint Designer workflows with content types
• It simplifies record management usage by using in place record management
• It provides hold & e discovery features to track external actions like litigation, investigation or audit
• It provides out of box support for compliancy
• It has improved quality of service making management of SharePoint much easier

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