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SharePoint Solutions from Clearway
 Clearway is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Information
Worker solutions. Clearway was an
original launch sponsor and an early adopter of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. As a result, we have unrivaled experience and
expertise deploying SharePoint solutions.
Contact Clearway for more information about Microsoft SharePoint.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Overview
 Microsoft Office SharePoint
Server was designed with three goals in mind: personalization,
integration, and collaboration. SharePoint
enables enterprises to develop an intelligent portal that
seamlessly connects users, teams, and knowledge so that people can take
advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them
work more efficiently.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server
capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing
comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared
business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries
for better business insight. The
portal facilitates end-to-end collaboration by enabling aggregation,
organization, and search capabilities for people, teams, and information.
Users can find relevant information quickly through customization and
personalization of portal content and layout, as well as by audience
targeting. Organizations can target information, programs, and updates to
audiences based on their organizational role, team membership, interest,
security group, or any other membership criteria that can be defined.
SharePoint solutions from Clearway help our clients to:
Manage content and processes
Simplify compliance efforts and keep business information more secure
through a comprehensive set of tools to manage and control electronic
content. Streamline the everyday business processes that are a drain on
organizational productivity by using electronic forms and out-of-the-box
workflow processes that users can initiate, track, and participate in
through familiar Microsoft Office applications, e-mail, or Web browsers.
- Control documents through detailed, extensible
policy management. Define customized document management policies to
control access rights at a per-item level, specify retention period and
expiration actions, and track content through document-auditing
settings. Policy integration with familiar client applications makes
compliance transparent and easy for employees. Integration with
Information Rights Management helps ensure that proprietary and
confidential information is better protected even if it is not connected
to a server.
- Centrally store, manage, and access documents
across the enterprise. Organizations can store and organize all
business documents and content in one central location, and users have a
consistent mechanism to navigate and find relevant information. Default
repository settings can be modified to add workflow, define retention
policies, and add new templates and content types.
- Simplify Web content management. Provide
easy-to-use functionality to create, approve, and publish Web content.
Master Pages and Page Layouts provide reusable templates for a
consistent look and feel. New functionality enables enterprises to
publish content from one area to another (for example, from a
collaborative sites to a portal), or to cost-effectively manage
multilingual delivery of content on multiple intranet, extranet, and
Internet sites.
- Extend business processes across the organization.
Forms Services–driven solutions make it possible to more securely and
accurately collect information both inside and outside the organization
without coding any custom applications. This information can then be
integrated easily into line-of-business systems, stored in document
libraries, used to start workflow processes, or submitted to Web
services, thus avoiding duplicate effort and costly errors resulting
from manual data entry.
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Streamline everyday business
activities. Take advantage of workflows to automate and gain more
visibility into common business activities such as document review and
approval, issue tracking, and signature collection. Integration with
familiar Microsoft Office client applications, e-mail, and Web browsers
simplifies the user experience. Organizations can easily modify the
out-of-the-box processes or define their own processes using familiar
Microsoft tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (the
next generation Microsoft Office FrontPage) or Microsoft Visual Studio
development system.
Improve business insight
Effectively monitor business drivers, empower better informed decisions
throughout the organization, and proactively respond to important business
events.
- Present business-critical information in one
central location. Create live, interactive business intelligence
(BI) portals that assemble and display business information from
disparate sources by using integrated BI capabilities such as
dashboards, Web Parts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business
data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give
users a single place to find the latest spreadsheets, reports, or KPIs.
- Quickly connect people with information.
Enterprise Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 incorporates people
and business data along with documents and Web pages to provide more
comprehensive results. The Search Center provides a single integrated
location for employees to find content, processes, people, and business
data relevant to their specific needs. This enables people and
organizations to make decisions based on the latest information and
facts more quickly.
- Share business data broadly while helping to
protect sensitive information. Excel Services running on Office
SharePoint Server 2007 provides access to data and analytics in real
time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web
browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one
centralized and up-to-date version while helping to protect any
sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents (such as
financial models).
- Take advantage of your unstructured business
networks to drive better decisions. Employees can use new knowledge
management tools to get the most from their powerful unstructured
business networks, both inside and outside their organizations, thereby
connecting with people more quickly and efficiently. By exploring these
undocumented business relationships and finding subject-matter experts,
individuals are able to make better decisions more quickly.
- Unlock business data. The Business Data Catalog
enables structured data from line-of-business applications, such as SAP
and Siebel systems, to be integrated into Office SharePoint Server 2007
through Web Parts, lists, people profiles, search, or programmatically.
Centrally managed connections to back-end systems can be defined once
and then reused by end-users to access back-end data without writing any
code — easily making business data part of portal content. The Business
Data Catalog also provides the ability for Enterprise Search to
integrate back-end business data into the search experience, without
having to write any protocol handlers, iFilters, or custom code.
Simplify internal and external collaboration
Share knowledge, find information, and collaborate more
easily and more securely both within and across organizational boundaries.
Leverage your partner and customer network, and use your personal networks
to connect to other people effectively.
- Enhance customer and partner relationships.
With smart, standards-based, electronic forms–driven solutions, you can
collect business information from customers and partners through a Web
browser. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integration and
support for other pluggable authentication providers makes it easier to
work with non–Active Directory directory service sources, thereby
simplifying extranet setups and facilitating tighter connectivity with
customers, partners, and suppliers.
- Ubiquitous Enterprise Search. Enterprise Search
in Office SharePoint Server 2007 has great relevance and incorporates
enterprise content such as people and business data, along with
documents and Web pages, to provide more comprehensive results.
Enterprise Search is ubiquitous in Office SharePoint Server 2007, with
tight integration into SharePoint sites, Web Parts, SharePoint lists,
people profiles, and more. This enables people to look for the
information they need wherever they navigate within the portal.
Enterprise Search has the capability to search through business data,
and the search results can be highly customized; for example, surfacing
specific metadata elements of back-end records.
- Work when and where you want. With offline
access to SharePoint lists and document libraries, via Microsoft Office
Outlook 2007, you can free yourself from limitations of corporate
network connectivity. Tight integration with Microsoft Office Groove
Server 2007 further enhances the offline experience for users.
- Connect and share knowledge. New knowledge
management tools empower employees to create and use people networks,
both inside and outside their organizations, so they can connect and
share knowledge more quickly and efficiently with other people.
- Personalize operations. My Sites provides a
totally personalized experience for users, with a dedicated site for
each user. Each site can be used to store, present, view, and manage
content, information, and applications in a controlled fashion. Each
site can also be used to present information about the user, such as
skills and roles, colleagues and managers, groups and distribution lists
the user belongs to, and documents the user is working on. And each site
contains stringent privacy control and enhanced security mechanisms, so
that each user can choose how much information to present, and to whom.
My Sites can also be fully customized to suit individual requirements.
Empower IT to make a strategic impact
Increase responsiveness of IT to business needs and reduce the number of
platforms to maintain by supporting all intranets, extranets, and Web
applications across the enterprise with one integrated platform.
- Get enhanced interoperability support. Office
SharePoint Server 2007 is built on a scalable architecture, with support
for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Office SharePoint Server 2007 also has
rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers
for lists and documents. This enables integration with existing systems
and provides the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT
investments. LDAP integration support for other pluggable authentication
providers makes it easier to work with non–Active Directory sources.
Out-of-the-box WSRP Consumer Web Part enables integration with other
WSRP-compliant portal solutions.
- Enable IT to focus on more strategic tasks.
Users can now create sites, initiate workflows, self-provision
applications, access back-end data, define security at a per-item level,
restore deleted items, and complete other tasks without involving IT.
This reduced user dependence on IT improves productivity and also
enables the IT department to focus on providing real value-added
services to the organization. With the Business Data Catalog, you can
define and deploy business application configurations to access data
residing in back-end systems. This feature can be reused by business
users to create personalized views of business data without having to
develop any custom code.
- Simplify deployment, management, and system
administration. Managing a Web server farm, deploying new pieces of
content, and managing synchronization across those sites is now much
simpler. Deployment can be done in “top-down” or “bottom-up” fashion.
Simplify site staging through out-of-the-box Site-starter Templates for
common Web sites, with Area and Page Layout templates and preconfigured
navigation. And enhanced capabilities to back up and restore content
helps IT professionals schedule backups, back up multisite collections,
and then restore each one individually.
- Robust system monitoring, usage tracking, and
monitoring tools. These tools help isolate and solve problems faster
and improve the operational efficiency of the system infrastructure
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