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Choosing SharePoint 2010 as a platform for your site provides customers with a variety of features and great capabilities. It is a service for creating sites and work areas for the most productive working and work in teams for industries and firms of all sizes, without any dependence of whether you have a small business or large establishment. The first thing users get acquainted with is SharePoint wheel. You can see it in all whitepapers and often in official documentation. This is the round schema which describes the areas of abilities of SharePoint 2010 platform.
This wheel contains from six key areas. They are Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights and Composites. Let's describe each of them in more detail.
Sites enables users to create sites for sharing documents, publishing info, making projects and far more capabilities with preconfigured site templates - as blank site, team site, document workspace, Blog, Wiki, Meeting workspaces and so on. Also customers can create SharePoint lists, share calendars, set up an alerts and workflow notifications, and, what is more, invite external users to collaborate on their sites. SharePoint service 2010 provides multi-lingual interface for staffs of a variety of countries and languages to make partnership more operative internationally. For building secure work they can assign permissions of the sites to other users.
Communities make cooperation much simpler and effective with creating blogs and wikis, discussion forums," Ask me about" sections, college suggestions, profiles and personal sites. There is an advantage of tagging the content, which is needed for easier navigation.
As for the Content area, this one shows the facilities for creation different types of files, store and export multiple documentations, open and edit documents directly from the SharePoint site, assign them unique IDs, create meta-data fields.
Search area allows clients to find the needed content or libraries across site collections with contextual search, phonetic or people search, and expertise search for finding partners and experts; additionally enables viewing documents in browser.
Insights is the area for accessing information in databases with a help of Excel services, distribution Visio diagrams, making business data web parts and chart web parts.
And, finally, Composites - the area for customizing sites for exact business requirements without help of IT guys. Users are allowed to connect to external data by Business Connectivity services, upload custom sandbox solutions, create workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, publish and edit Access data bases in browser and create InfoPath form templates.
Worth paying attention also the fact that not all of the facilities of SharePoint 2010 are available immediately, some of them need to be configured and any particular subscription plan includes its number of SharePoint features. To start using SharePoint and evaluate all its advantages you need to subscribe it from one of the reliable hosting company. Pay attention while choosing it.
This wheel contains from six key areas. They are Sites, Communities, Content, Search, Insights and Composites. Let's describe each of them in more detail.
Sites enables users to create sites for sharing documents, publishing info, making projects and far more capabilities with preconfigured site templates - as blank site, team site, document workspace, Blog, Wiki, Meeting workspaces and so on. Also customers can create SharePoint lists, share calendars, set up an alerts and workflow notifications, and, what is more, invite external users to collaborate on their sites. SharePoint service 2010 provides multi-lingual interface for staffs of a variety of countries and languages to make partnership more operative internationally. For building secure work they can assign permissions of the sites to other users.
Communities make cooperation much simpler and effective with creating blogs and wikis, discussion forums," Ask me about" sections, college suggestions, profiles and personal sites. There is an advantage of tagging the content, which is needed for easier navigation.
As for the Content area, this one shows the facilities for creation different types of files, store and export multiple documentations, open and edit documents directly from the SharePoint site, assign them unique IDs, create meta-data fields.
Search area allows clients to find the needed content or libraries across site collections with contextual search, phonetic or people search, and expertise search for finding partners and experts; additionally enables viewing documents in browser.
Insights is the area for accessing information in databases with a help of Excel services, distribution Visio diagrams, making business data web parts and chart web parts.
And, finally, Composites - the area for customizing sites for exact business requirements without help of IT guys. Users are allowed to connect to external data by Business Connectivity services, upload custom sandbox solutions, create workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010, publish and edit Access data bases in browser and create InfoPath form templates.
Worth paying attention also the fact that not all of the facilities of SharePoint 2010 are available immediately, some of them need to be configured and any particular subscription plan includes its number of SharePoint features. To start using SharePoint and evaluate all its advantages you need to subscribe it from one of the reliable hosting company. Pay attention while choosing it.
