Strategic Value
Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Gives Strategic Value
Effective information sharing and collaboration is rapidly becoming a strategic platform advantage, but that advantage can be compromised if collaboration technologies are deployed in a piecemeal fashion.
- Fast time-to-market functionality, assuring you a quick, cost-effective deployment that can be integrated into daily business workflows in no time.
- Incremental deployment options, enabling you to implement collaboration capabilities within your organization's timeframe and budget.
- Easy and cost-effective extensibility, enabling you to build organization-specific solutions and work with well-managed, hosted services connecting customers, partners, and suppliers.
- Integration with familiar tools, enabling users to quickly and easily share information and collaborate with peers.
- Organization-wide standards, providing persistent security, management, and integration on a scalable platform.
How Hosted Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Works
Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services sites take file storage to a new level, providing communities for team collaboration and making it easy for users to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and other information. In addition, team and site managers can coordinate site content and user activity easily. The Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development
Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 sites are made up of Web Parts and Windows ASP.NET-based components. Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 Services ships with a number of ready-to-use application templates; more will be available in the future from Microsoft and third-party vendors.
Individual Empowerment
Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 site members can find and communicate with key contacts and experts, both by e-mail and with instant messaging. Site content can be easily searched, and users can also receive alerts to tell them when existing documents and information have been changed, or when new information or documents have been added. Site content and layout can be personalized on a per-user basis, and Web Parts can be used to present targeted information to specific users on precise topics.
Microsoft Office System programs use Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 site content. All of a site's collaborative content-for example, documents, lists, events, task assignments, and membership rosters-can be read and edited within Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Picture editing of Web-based photo libraries is also possible. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 allows Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 site event calendars to be viewed side-by-side with personal calendars, and it also creates meeting-specific workspaces to augment group appointments - thereby making your Hosted Exchange solution with 123Together.com even more powerful.
Team Community
Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 sites provide places to capture and share ideas, information, communication, and documents. The sites facilitate team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration, and surveys. Site content is accessible from both a Web browser and through clients that support Web Services. The document collaboration features allow for easy check in, check out, and document version control.
