“Brasfield &
Gorrie has tried
about every firm
in the region
that has a
SharePoint
practice, ACP
separates
themselves by
delivering the
results we need
to run our
business.”
James Purcell,
CTO
“ACP has done a
superb job on a
very intricate,
corporate-wide
international
SharePoint 2007
deployment. They
got us the
results we new
were out there.”
Rod Reisner, IT
Director, McWane
Cast Iron Pipe
Company
The portal, built on a scalable, highly distributed
architecture,
provides
flexible tools
for deployment,
development, and
management, all
of which enable
the portal to
grow with your
organization’s
needs. These
integration
features enable
you to harness
information to
make use of your
company’s
resources. Users
can extract and
reuse timely and
relevant
information from
systems and
reports, and
quickly locate
and access
documents,
projects, and
best practices
across the
company.
In keeping with our core value of having the
highest level of
technical
expertise
attainable;
every technical
staff member at
ACP holds one or
more of
Microsoft’s
highest level of
Certifications.
Multiple staff
members have
been on the
Microsoft Office
2007 Rapid
Deployment
program,
multiple ACP
associates are
also serving as
board members
for Microsoft
Project
Association. One ACP
associate
currently serves
as a Most
Valuable
Professional
(MVP) for the
Microsoft
Management Users
Group and a
member of the
SharePoint Pro
Research Panel.
Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
Capabilities
Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
provides a
single,
integrated
location where
employees can
efficiently
collaborate with
team members,
find
organizational
resources,
search for
experts and
corporate
information,
manage content
and workflow,
and leverage
business insight
to make
better-informed
decisions.
|
Collaborate-
Allow
teams to
work
together
effectively,
collaborate
on and
publish
documents,
maintain
task
lists,
implement
workflows,
and
share
information
through
the use
of wikis
and
blogs.
|
|
Portals-
Create a
personal
MySite
portal
to share
information
with
others
and
personalize
the user
experience
and
content
of an
enterprise
Web site
based on
the
user’s
profile. |
|
Enterprise Search-
Quickly
and
easily
find
people,
expertise,
and
content
in
business
applications.
|
|
Enterprise Content
Management-
Create
and
manage
documents,
records,
and Web
content.
|
|
Business Process and
Forms-
Easily
create
workflows
and
electronic
forms to
automate
and
streamline
your
business
processes.
|
|
Business Intelligence-
Allow
information
workers
to
easily
access
critical
business
information,
analyze
and view
data,
and
publish
reports
to make
more
informed
decisions.
|
Integration with
2007 Microsoft
Office System
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007 is
designed to work
effectively with
other programs,
servers, and
technologies in
the 2007 Office
release.
For Example,
with Microsoft
Office
PowerPoint 2007,
you can create a
slide library on
an Office
SharePoint
Server 2007 site
that allows
other users to
pick specific
slides for their
own presentation
and receive
notifications
and updated
versions when
the slides have
been modified.
Microsoft
Products and
Technologies
SharePoint
Products and
Technologies
provide
enterprise-scale
capabilities to
meet
business-critical
needs like
managing content
and business
processes,
simplifying how
people find and
share
information
across
boundaries, and
enabling better
informed
decisions.
Using the
combined
collaboration
features of
Windows
SharePoint
Services and
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007,
plus the design
and
customization
capabilities of
Office
SharePoint
Designer 2007,
organizations
can enable their
users to create,
manage, and
easily build
their own
SharePoint
sites, and
enable these
sites to be
discovered
throughout the
organization.
How are
Microsoft Office
SharePoint
Server 2007 and
Microsoft
Windows
SharePoint
Services
related?
If
you've heard
about Microsoft
Windows
SharePoint
Services, you
may wonder how
it relates to
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007.
Windows
SharePoint
Services is an
enabling
technology that
is included in
Microsoft
Windows Server
2003. It
helps teams stay
connected and
productive by
providing easy
access to the
people,
documents, and
information that
they need to
make
well-informed
decisions and
get work done.
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
relies on the
Windows
SharePoint
Services 3.0
technology to
provide a
consistent,
familiar
framework for
lists and
libraries, site
administration,
and site
customization.
Any features
that are
available in
Windows
SharePoint
Services 3.0 are also
available in
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007.
Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
offers enhanced
and additional
features that
are unavailable
on a Windows
SharePoint
Services site.
For example,
both Office
SharePoint
Server 2007 and
Windows
SharePoint
Services include
site templates
for
collaborating
with colleagues
and setting up
meetings.
However, Office
SharePoint
Server 2007
includes a
number of
additional site
templates
related to
enterprise and
publishing
scenarios.
The chart below shows a quick overview of the capabilities available
under Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007
Standard edition, and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise edition.
| Capabilities |
SharePoint Services 3.0 |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL |
Office SharePoint Server For Internet Sites |
| Collaboration |
X |
X |
X |
X |
| Portals |
|
X |
X |
X |
| Enterprise Search |
|
X |
X |
X |
| Enterprise Content Management |
|
X |
X |
X |
| Business Process and Forms |
|
|
X |
X |
| Business Intelligence |
|
|
X |
X |
| Licensed for Intranet/Extranet |
X |
X |
X |
X |
How is Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 related to
both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows
SharePoint Services?
While Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint
Services provide the technology and platform, Office SharePoint
Designer 2007 provides the tools to tailor SharePoint sites to
meet specific business needs. With Office SharePoint Designer
2007, organizations can deliver compelling SharePoint sites and
quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools
without having to write or deploy code on the server..