The portal components of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 include features that are especially useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate Internet presence websites, and divisional portal sites.

The portal components also make it easy to connect to information workers within the organization that have the right skills, knowledge, and project experience. Total Productivity Solutions builds highly customized Intranets and Portals that fit the processes information workers use in their daily job, simplifing these processes increases the efficiency and productivity of your organization.

Information Access

Our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 solutions provide advanced features for organizing and finding data all through a central location. This makes it possible to find and re-use relevant information from systems, reports, project materials and documents just by searching or browsing.

Advanced portal personalization features provide a way for information workers to organize data in a way that fits their daily job processes. You can even vary the configuration dynamically depending on which user is logged in. The search functionality in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is an enterprise level search that makes it easy to find data in SharePoint sites, file shares, external websites, line of business applications, and many more sources.

Having immediate access to files, data and applications in a single platform makes it easy to keep track of information from multiple sources. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 can also act as a secure password manager, offering direct access to your applications without having to remember a password and integrating with your existing Active Directory security architecture.

Automate Organizational Processes

Alerts and Audience Targeting set within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 delivers relevant information to the fingertips of all the information workers in your organization. Alerts can be set to inform information workers when any relevant information within the organization's portal has been added or changed. Audience targeting allows groups of people with similar roles or interests to be targeted for important messages or memos.

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

All departments, teams and information workers can contribute content to your organization's portal using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 through a web browser on their client machines. This simplifies the process of publishing documents and encourages best practices throughout the entire organization.

In addition, employees can access HR systems to modify their personal information, apply for benefits and other HR related activities using the same portal that they use everyday to access colleagues, teams and information.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 can even be deployed as an Extranet. The organization can create and manage an Extranet that securely collects and stores information from suppliers, partners, and customers. Use electronic form-based solutions to gain critical business information using built-in validation rules.

Create Project and Team Sites

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides information workers with a personalized portal experience by allowing them to organise and share information more effectively therefore increasing the productivity of your organization. Creating a portal solution does not require coding a portal software application from scratch. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 includes pre-built components and features that make building a portal faster and more cost-effective. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 includes (among many other elements) the features previously available in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the ability to customize the portal with Microsoft SharePoint Designer and to create applications utilizing the data within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 with the ASP .NET framework.

Personalize information worker's user experience by customizing your orginization's portal with alternative views. Information workers can build their own profile and move their desktop online by storing documents in customisable My Sites. Present information such as skills and roles, project involvement, distribution lists they belong to and more. Enable greater collaboration, reduce work duplication and set privacy controls.

Create Project and Team Sites to enhance collaboration, productivity and enable information workers to work remotely. Teams are able to post news, add discussion boards, and edit documents with access to previous versions. Employees can also post answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), increasing productivity and reducing the number of calls to departments such as IT and human resources.

Portals provide a single location that bring together all of the information an information worker needs to get their job done (e.g., people, teams, knowledge, applications). Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 provides advanced functionality that lets you easily design and maintain advanced portal solutions. Site Manager provides an easy way to view and manage the overall site structure. Audience targeting lets you dynamically change the data seen by users based on who they are and the roles they perform.

Powerful and Robust Corporate-wide Search Engine

The search components in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 have been significantly enhanced to include increased relevance of search results, new functions to search for people and expertise to better maintain social networks internal and external to your organization, and the ability to index and search data in LOB applications, external repositories, shared drives, and even crawl external websites.

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