Sharepoint Products & Technologies - Overview

The key areas where Sharepoint Products and Technologies provide ROI are:

·         Collaboration between Individuals/Teams

·         Content Management

·         Human Workflow/Process Management

·         Platform for Web based applications

All of the above helps in improving the productivity.

Sharepoint Products and Technologies mainly comprises of following Products and Tools:

·         Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS)

·         Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS)

·         Office Sharepoint Designer

·         SDKs and Visual Studio Extensions for WSS and MOSS

WSS – is a set of web components and services which comes as a part of Windows 2003/2008 license and can be downloaded freely from Microsoft.com. The current version is 3.0 with SP1.

MOSS – is a licensed product which improves upon the capabilities of WSS and also provides some additional capabilities and features in the key ROI areas and Business Intelligence. The current version is 2007 with SP1.

Office Sharepoint Designer – Tool to customize WSS and MOSS and also to extend the sites hosted on WSS and MOSS. The current version is 2007.

SDKs and VS extensions: Provide programming interfaces and tooling support for automating and extending WSS and MOSS implementations.