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This document discusses Collaboration in today's environment and how to understand and discover the different Collaboration tools what to look for in making a decision to determining the greatest ROI available.
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This paper examines the value organizations can gain from enhancing their collaborative environment with corporate social computing capabilities. Not only does better collaboration in the form of business communities enable people to work more efficiently, it engages them more fully in the work they do.
SharePoint 2010 helps organizations and users improve efficiencies and effectiveness by enabling them to better manage their information sharing. The Sites capability of SharePoint 2010 serves as a “one-stop shop” for all of an organization’s business Web sites. Whether a team site for employees, an extranet site for partners, or an Internet site for customers, users can share and publish information using one familiar system.
Robust Business Intelligence capabilities within SharePoint 2010 help organizations manage and access both structured and unstructured data, providing you with the ability to empower your decision makers, improve organizational effectiveness, and enable IT efficiency.
SharePoint Composites allows your organization to derive more value from existing and future IT investments, from those made on SharePoint to those made on your own enterprise systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and on other proprietary applications.
SharePoint Server 2010 enables companies to democratize content management and improve organizations by providing content management to all employees and compliance across all documents.
In December 2009, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
This evaluation guide is designed to give IT Professionals an introduction and overview of the features in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 that are most pertinent to installing, managing, and configuring the SharePoint farm.
A guide to understanding the differences between SharePoint 2010 and IBM in regards to Collaboration
Use this white paper to learn about the value of deploying the latest and greatest of SharePoint and Office for everyday business scenarios.
This white paper covers the topics of how Microsoft IT implemented enterprise search within the company's intranet using SharePoint Server 2007.
This paper describes how Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 is the next step forward for the Microsoft fundamental collaboration technology framework, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. An overview of SharePoint Foundation 2010 as the essential solution for organizations that want a secure, manageable, Web-based collaboration platform is provided.
This white paper describes how planning for governance, although challenging, can provide benefits in the enterprise by eliminating chaos and improving productivity.
The purpose of Web analytics is to derive actionable intelligence from the behavior of users in Web-based solutions. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers an integrated platform to build a flexible and scalable Web analytics infrastructure that delivers the needed intelligence without pulling the IT organization into analytics minutiae or turning business units into creators of isolated application and data silos.
This white paper describes the innovations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that make interoperability with SAP easier than ever.
This document explores how SharePoint Products and Technologies can help organizations more easily leverage their knowledge capital of enterprise data, human expertise, process knowledge, and content to operate with greater agility in a dynamic and complex world.
This white paper discusses the "New World of Work" of today's global economy and how the Microsoft collaboration vision can help address the four main areas of business challenges that are critical to effective collaboration.
This white paper, written for the Technical Decision Makers, takes a look at the drivers and challenges that define Enterprise Search and examines the key elements of a successful Enterprise Search solution.
With employees and information spread across many different locations, Sony was looking for ways to improve information access, enhance collaboration, and make better use of internal expert resources.
Learn how Prudential Douglas Elliman was able to take control of their content, re-develop the corporate intranet, and provide a consolidated view of business data all with SharePoint 2007
Learn about the importance of empowering the people of your organization with data that can allow them to make better, faster decisions and how to think about BI for all members of your company. It will also review different BI functionality and approaches to Business Intelligence.
Find out how Microsoft SQL Server 2008 makes business intelligence (BI) available to everyone through deep integration with Microsoft Office, providing the right tool, to the right user, at the right price.
Your line-of-business applications play a critical role in empowering people to make decisions and drive business success. Connecting your people with the processes and information they need to be successful, with software that is flexible, familiar, and easy to use can give your business the edge. Microsoft calls this “software for the People-Ready Business.”
This paper focuses on the advantages of using SQL Server Integration Services to extract data from heterogeneous sources and import data into Microsoft® SQL Server™ for business intelligence (BI) analysis and reporting.
Read this exclusive report from BusinessWeek Research Services on distributing data analysis tools from the executive suite to the shop floor.
See how Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your business get to a single version of the truth
Learn how Prudential Douglas Elliman was able to take over a dozen data sources and create a consolidated view of business data and create key financial and market reports with SharePoint 2007 and SQL 2005
Learn how the Global Financial Leader deploys solution for compliance and operational advantages