Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Business Collaboration Platform For Any Enterprise
Convergent Technologies would help customers and partners in adopting Sharepoint 2010 for their enterprise either in form of new implementation or upgrading from MOSS 2007 to Sharepoint 2010.
Convergent Technologies has done over 15 implementations in MOSS 2007 in the areas of Enterprise Business Workflows, Large Intranets, Public Portals, Enterprise Content Search and Integration with Existing Legacy Systems.
Some of these projects have been done in collaboration with Microsoft India.
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Features and Benefits
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables organizations to connect and empower people through an integrated set of rich features. SharePoint 2010 facilitates business collaboration in its broadest sense and helps colleagues, partners, and customers to work together in new and effective ways.
Sites
SharePoint Sites delivers a single infrastructure to provide portal and collaboration capabilities across Intranet, Extranet, and Internet sites to bring users together to share Knowledge across organizations.
Collaboration Capabilities
SharePoint 2010 provides portal and collaboration capabilities across Intranet, Extranet, and Internet sites. SharePoint 2010 brings users together to share information, data, and expertise across organizations. It offers great usability, personalized experiences, and a single infrastructure that saves valuable time and dollars.
Simple User Interface
Great usability is the key to broad adoption. A new Fluent UI, an enhanced mobile experience, cross-browser support, and built-in accessibility standards make it easy and rewarding for anyone to use SharePoint 2010.
Content Personalisation
Features such as My Sites, user tagging, content targeting, and multilingual support allow users to create individualized experiences. People can find, use, and share information and contacts easily and naturally.
Reduce Costs and Complexity
SharePoint 2010 saves organizations time and money with a unified infrastructure that is manageable and scalable. IT professionals can centrally manage and monitor sites, integrate applications, and reuse popular solutions via web parts and templates.
Communities
SharePoint Communities empowers people to work together in ways that are most effective for them. Allow people to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts easily.
SharePoint 2010 Communities: Work Together Effectively
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Communities provides a comprehensive, flexible platform that empowers people to work together in ways that are most effective for them. Allow your people to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts naturally.
Work Together the Way You Want
The global workforce of the twenty-first century is more diverse than ever. Connect and engage all of your employees with a flexible collaboration platform and a diverse set of tools that range from Wikis to Workflows to Workspaces—allowing people to work together the way they want.
Rely on a Secure Collaboration Platform
Let your IT staff rely on an enterprise-ready collaboration platform that is secure and easy to manage and will support your organization’s growing needs. SharePoint 2010 makes social safe with granular security and privacy controls, centralized management and policy setting, and robust reporting and analysis.
Extend the Value of Your Community Solutions
The SharePoint platform seamlessly integrates with the rest of the Microsoft Business Productivity infrastructure, including the Office applications, Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, and Dynamics. In addition, SharePoint provides Business Connectivity Services and adheres to open standards and protocols, making it easy to integrate third-party applications.
Search
SharePoint Search give users the ability to find the content, information, and people they need by combining an integrated, easy-to-manage platform with best-of-breed enterprise search technology.
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search: Find People and Information Anywhere
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Search can help the members of your organization find the content, information, and people they need by combining an integrated, easy-to-manage platform with best-of-breed enterprise search technology. Now more than ever, all your employees, from sales associates to developers, can do more with search to get their jobs done.
Go Beyond the Search Box
SharePoint 2010 moves beyond the traditional “10 blue links” and introduces a visual and interactive experience, allowing users to find, explore, and connect to information and people.
Eliminate Compromise Between Manageability and Capability
SharePoint 2010 offers an integrated solution that can tackle the most challenging enterprise search requirements while maintaining the out-of-box simplicity and consistency of a durable and secure platform.
Do More with Search
SharePoint 2010 is a powerful platform for building custom search solutions and applications using common out-of-box tools.
Insights
SharePoint Insights enables users to access and interact with information across unstructured and structured data sources. Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better and more agile business decisions.
SharePoint 2010 Insights: Make Informed Business Decisions
As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Insights enables users to find the information they need across unstructured assets (blogs, wikis, presentations, documents) and structured assets (reports, spreadsheets, analytical systems). Empower users to discover the right people and expertise to make better informed and more agile business decisions.
Empower Decision Makers
Empower users to collaborate better and make more agile business decisions by accessing the information they need, when they need it. With powerful self-service capabilities integrated into familiar tools, users can create and share the right information and drive the business forward by providing timely responses and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Improve Organizational Effectiveness
Manage, drive, and define organizational success by aligning to key metrics and strategy through context-driven dashboards. Measure critical success factors and empower everyone to create and analyze the information necessary to stay informed and move the business forward. Enable accountability and transparency across the company and remove barriers to productivity.
Enable IT Efficiency
Use a complete, integrated business collaboration platform that can empower users to discover, analyze, and share the right information across unstructured and structured assets. With a platform built on standards, IT can address business requirements by putting information in the hands of users and focusing on developing, maintaining, and securing systems.
Content
SharePoint Content enables all users to participate in a governed, compliant content management lifecycle. SharePoint Content makes it possible to expertly balance user experience with policy and process.
SharePoint 2010 Content: Manage Content Lifecycle From Creation to Disposition
With Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Microsoft, your people can participate in the content management lifecycle, helping to govern information and promote compliance. As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Content expertly balances user experience with policy and process, ensuring that everyone participates and all content is managed.
Increase Productivity and Information Value
With SharePoint 2010, content management is simple and intuitive, allowing employees to focus on higher value tasks. In addition, SharePoint 2010 provides co-authoring, metadata driven navigation, search refiners, and a rich social overlay to help people turn information into action.
Drive Compliance and Reduce Risk
SharePoint 2010 provides a single platform for managing content across the enterprise. By consistently applying metadata, retention schedules, record declarations, and legal holds, SharePoint 2010 can help to ensure that information is managed in accordance with policy and regulation. This can reduce the risk of incorrectly deleting relevant information or retaining information beyond its useful life.
Consolidate Systems and Simplify Integration
Reducing the need to purchase multiple ECM solutions, SharePoint 2010 delivers the management of documents, records, Web content, rich media, and document output in an integrated, extensible platform. In addition, SharePoint 2010 is built on an open platform that supports interoperability standards like XML, SOAP, RSS, REST, WebDAV, and WSRP, which significantly reduces the cost of maintaining a heterogeneous environment.
Composites
SharePoint Composites empowers users to rapidly respond to business needs by creating their own no-code solutions on-premises or in the cloud, through a rich set of building blocks, tools, and self-service capabilities.
SharePoint 2010 Composites: Take Action with Managed Solutions
SharePoint Composites empowers business users to rapidly respond to a broad array of business needs with collaborative solutions of their own, without code, both on-premises or in the cloud, through a rich set of building blocks, tools, and self-service capabilities, while providing IT professionals with manageability and operational insights to ensure a stable platform and control over end-user solutions.
Rapidly Create No-Code Collaborative Solutions
Empower business users to rapidly and easily address a broad array of business needs using the browser, or to share their Office Access databases and Office Visio diagrams with others, while allowing advanced users to customize SharePoint with no-code tools in SharePoint Designer and Office InfoPath.
Unlock the Value of Enterprise Data
Allow your organization to interact with enterprise data directly within the SharePoint and Office experience, in both read and write modes. Users are able to work with enterprise data as easily as with SharePoint data, either offline or connected, or directly in the rich experience of Microsoft Office.
Maintain Control over End User Solutions
IT professionals can manage user solutions and define resource throttling controls on resource consumption on your server infrastructure, letting SharePoint take care of ensuring that solutions stay within your predefined limits. This allows them to maintain operational insight and a stable platform, whether online or on-premises.