The SharePoint wheel
The SharePoint wheel is actually a graphical representation to show what Microsoft SharePoint can help achieve within organizations. There are 6 main categories of tools available with SharePoint. These are:
Site (s
SharePoint allows you to create custom subsites on a SharePoint site. These subsites are commonly known as Sites. Sites can be directed to a particular department of a particular organization or group of users. Consider a school that implements a SharePoint intranet portal. The school administration can search for individual sites for each class or each teacher. This will help create an individual environment for each class and therefore make the best use of SharePoint features.
Communities
The “built-in communities” is one of the most attractive features of SharePoint. Communities allow users to share knowledge and information with each other. Communities can involve activities such as information sharing, knowledge sharing, content tagging, social media, content rating, user comments, and many more. In addition to this, the communities include blogs and wikis for wider support. Many companies use SharePoint communities to strengthen communication and coordination within the organization. For example, displaying profiles of people who recently joined helps existing employees learn more about them. This facilitates a better merger of new and existing employees.
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One of the most basic but very important features of SharePoint portals is content management. The extraordinary capabilities of SharePoint, while integrating with Microsoft Office tools, make it the preferred choice for companies that want to have their own intranet portals. SharePoint portals are completely CMS-based and can be easily updated by the administrator. The administrator can add, edit and delete portal content. In addition to this, SharePoint portals are capable of handling documents, images and other multimedia content. Documents can be shared with specific user groups. Users can update the document. SharePoint is able to maintain the version history of the document when more than one person is working on the document simultaneously.
Look for
Microsoft SharePoint provides extensive search capabilities. The search engine provides extreme support for multilingual content. Users can search for content, documents, images or people within the portal with the powerful search engine. This is why SharePoint is considered a strong platform for building search-based web applications.
Perspectives
SharePoint 2010 was developed with the basic idea of allowing it to natively integrate with other products and services provided by Microsoft such as Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPivot, Performance Point, SQL Server, reporting services, and many more. It provides an incredible experience for end users by facilitating easy sharing of content and applications. In this way, SharePoint allows you to create a completely personalized portal for a company or any other type of organization, thus facilitating the availability of daily information for members.
Composition
SharePoint 2010 enables you to develop highly customized solutions by integrating existing separately developed applications. These can be external software or external data connectivity. SharePoint portals are capable of obtaining external data from third-party applications such as CRM and ERP, allowing the company to work on a single application for all business needs. This feature also makes SharePoint development a practical task for developers. This is yet another reason for SharePoint’s success as the preferred choice for intranet and extranet portals.
