Microsoft SharePoint 2010

UMT Consulting SA has been incorporating SharePoint into our overall PPM solutions for the past four years now. Microsoft has always closely interlinked and integrated SharePoint and project server, but with the release of the 2010 Suite, these two products are now more tightly integrated than ever before. Project Server 2010 has been built on-top of SharePoint 2010, how-ever SharePoint 2010 can still exist on its own and definitely within its own right.

The areas of improvement within SharePoint 2010 are shown within the image below:

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• SharePoint Sites
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  Rich User Experience:
• Easy site editing, including theming & branding
• Office Ribbon UI for faster training & adoption
• Rich offline experience with SharePoint Workspace
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  Anywhere Access:
• Mobile-based interaction with people and content
• Read-write web access using Office Web Application
• Cross-browser support for maximized participation
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  Single Platform:
• Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet & Internet
• Improved interoperability with standards support
• Out-of-box accessibility compliance for WCAG 2.0

 

• SharePoint Communities
• 
  Informal Knowledge
• Promote sharing with easy social authoring
• Easily navigate resources with pervasive tagging
• Find better answers faster via user feedback
• 
  Social Connections
• Connecting users through enhanced profiles
• Staying up-to-date using news feeds and alerts
• Make expertise discovery easy across the enterprise
• 
  Participation Anywhere
• Work with peers whether online or offline
• Collaborate on the go through the mobile UI
• Enrich existing applications with social context

 

• SharePoint Search
• 
  Better Answers Faster
• Improved relevance based on usage and history
• Rich results-navigators for shorter search time
• Support for 400+ content types and 85 languages
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  Knowledge Amplification
• Phonetic and multi-lingual for global relevance
• Social connections driven by interests and expertise
• Secure access to content, whether internal or external
• 
  Enterprise Deployment
• Improved scale to meet any demand volume
• Deployment-specific tuning for best results
• Search-driven applications to enrich platform

 

• SharePoint Insights
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  Data Interaction
• Advanced analysis with Excel Services
• Richer data visualization and easy sharing
• Incorporation of LOB data in data analysis
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  Decision Making
• Powerful Self-Service capabilities and visualizations
• Compelling dashboards to drive business results
• Rich reports with access to millions of rows
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  Organisational Effectiveness
• Drive accountability and alignment with scorecards
• Identify issues and opportunities with real-time access
• Improved API for richer extensibility and development

 

• SharePoint Composites
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  User Driven Solutions
• Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
• Process automation and data validation with Forms
• Visio services integration for data visualization
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  Data Connectivity
• Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
• LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
• SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs
• 
  Solution Deployment
• Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
• Platform stability with resource quota-management
• Standards support for integration and accessibility

 

• Investments for IT Professionals
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  Scale with Governance
• Terabytes of data and multi-million item lists
• Improved Platform resiliency and redundancy
• Advanced back-up, restore and disaster recovery
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  Deployment Flexibility
• Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet and Internet
• On-premise and/or hosted options
• Data storage inside and outside the SharePoint DB
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  IT Productivity
• Enterprise-wide management capabilities
• Robust installation and predictable upgrade process
• Higher availability with better patch management