Components and Purpose of SharePoint

Components of SharePoint

1.       SITES: SharePoint 2010 Sites provides a single infrastructure for all your business        Websites. Share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and     publish information to customers. 

2.       COMMUNITIES: SharePoint 2010 Communities delivers great collaboration tools     and a single platform to manage them. Make it easy for people to share ideas and   work together the way they want.

3.       CONTENT: SharePoint 2010 Content makes content management easy. Set up      compliance measures ”behind the scenes”—with features like document types,     retention polices, and automatic content sorting—and then let people work     naturally in Microsoft Office.

4.       SEARCH: SharePoint 2010 Search cuts through the clutter. A unique combination of    relevance, refinement, and social cues helps people find the information and    contacts they need to get their jobs done.

5.       INSIGHTS: SharePoint 2010 Insights gives everyone access to the information in    databases, reports, and business applications. Help people locate the information    they need to make good decisions.

6.       COMPOSITES: SharePoint 2010 Composites offers tools and components for    creating do-it-yourself business solutions. Build no-code solutions to rapidly    respond to business needs.​

Purpose of SharePoint

1)It is Portal Collaboration Software Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.

2)Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly

integrated into familiar, everyday applications.

3)Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partnersacross organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions.

4)Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In

          addition, access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into          this data can be personalized.

 5)Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment,          management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks.