Centralized resources and workflow management - Microsoft SharePoint Online
Give your business a highly secure, central location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, manage content and workflow, and gain the business insight to make better-informed decisions. Employees can create and manage custom team- and project-focused intranet sites for collaboration and document sharing.
Building intranet sites with SharePoint Online
Collaboration platform for sharing information and working together in teams, communities, and people-driven processes
Workflow to automate approval, review, and archiving processes
Content management that is extended through integration with familiar tools like the Microsoft Office system
Compatibility with other products
SharePoint Server 2007
Workflow to automate approval, review, and archiving processes
Office 2007
SharePoint Online
In this information economy, companies are increasingly realizing that people are their most important asset. Communication and collaboration solutions are among the most critical tools for information workers. Yet businesses must overcome significant challenges to keep pace with fast-changing technology, free their IT staff to work on strategic areas, and help protect the corporate network against security breaches and disruptive emergencies. By equipping people with the right software tools, businesses can help their employees drive business success.
Microsoft SharePoint Online provides a single, integrated location where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, search your site, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions. Based on Office SharePoint Server 2007, this Microsoft-hosted solution enables employees to easily create and manage custom team and project-focused sites for collaboration including document sharing. Users get the flexibility and customization they need to truly work efficiently across teams. Microsoft handles setup, provisioning, ongoing maintenance and upgrades of your SharePoint Server Infrastructure reducing workload on your IT resources which helps enable them to work on core strategic initiatives that can help you move your business forward.
How it Works
SharePoint Online leverages redundant and geographically dispersed data centers. Each data center houses a reliable redundant infrastructure needed to support the service. SharePoint Online helps simplify IT management by removing customers’ need to deploy, configure, monitor and update/upgrade a collaboration solution on premises. From the Microsoft Online Services Administration Center, IT administrators can create new site collections, sites and enable access to specific users. With SharePoint Online, your enterprise can be up and running quickly. SharePoint Online offers you a comprehensive set of functionality spread across the Portal, Collaboration, Search, Content Management and Business Process Forms workloads.
Key features include:
· Use of https helps keep internet access secure.
· Forefront anti-virus scanning.
· Shared document and meeting workspaces, document libraries with version control, seamless integration with Microsoft Office.
· Standard Templates including Wikis, Blogs, and Surveys.
· Content management features for documents and Web content.
· Site search.
· E-mail alerts when documents or other items have been changed or added to a site.
· Offline access to documents on the service from Outlook.
· Native RSS feeds for SharePoint libraries and lists.
· Sign-In tool providing single sign-on capability.
· 99.9% scheduled uptime with financially backed Service Level Agreements.
· Web form and phone based Tier-2 support for IT Administrators—24/7 for general availability.
Migration: Many customers have existing collaborative platforms or older versions of SharePoint. Working with our partners, Microsoft can help you develop a strategy for migration, and outline environment.
Technical Requirements
Windows Vista: 1 gigahertz (GHz) Pentium processor or faster and 1 gigabyte (GB) or more of system RAM
Windows XP: 500 megahertz (MHz) Pentium processor or faster (recommended 1 GHz) and 256 megabytes (MB) or more of system RAM
