About Microsoft Sharepoint
The most important item in today's environment is information, obtaining the right information efficiently is a key ingredient to the success of any concern. Organizations strive to host a common forum where each of their employees can be provided the right information at right time; a portal is the facility that makes that information readily available while providing the tool to publish said artefacts. Sharepoint provides the necessary collaboration around various projects, among the project team members, during meetings scaling across departments, the company, and beyond. Versioning on the data objects as well as electronic notification are needed to energize and stimulate communication between the relevant stakeholders. Enterprise portals are the concrete solution to overcome such limitation and ad hoc approach.
Enterprise portals provide web access to information and various related artefacts; this makes them ideal for remote access. The typical approach adopted by most organizations is to have one enterprise-wide portal that serves as the information backbone for all employees. Here, all the current information about the company, its strategy, upcoming events and various other details can be obtained. In this methodology there is a clear demarcation between each of the entities that may access of information. These entities can be physical, such as departments, or conceptual, such as projects and meetings. Most of the advanced portal solutions tout more features that enable distributed delivery and retrieval including search capabilities, document libraries, most importantly, robust management tools.
With Microsoft's latest portal solutions: "Windows SharePoint Services" (WSS) and "SharePoint Portal Server 2003." (SPS), efficient management and delivery of data has made it even easier to achieve a pure “Enterprise Portal Solutionâ€.
Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) VS Sharepoint Services
