At last, full Office Integration

SharePoint 2007 represents the future for any businesses with a Microsoft-led IT strategy and we are very excited by it. We have also delivered one of the earliest and biggest SharePoint 2007 implementations in the UK.

SharePoint 2007 - Technology Overview

SharePoint 2007 is the third major release of the Microsoft Portal suite. Content Management Server 2002 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 have been combined into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). Windows SharePoint Services version 2 has been upgraded to Windows SharePoint Services version 3.

Windows SharePoint Services offers online publishing of standard file formats, with version control, document approval and a basic search facility. An integrated Single Sign On (SSO) service, Active Directory connectors and presence information are a powerful mix. The front-end consists of ASP.NET pages served via Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 on Windows Server 2003. There is a Microsoft SQL Server back-end for storing data and an ISAPI filter is no longer required to map its web-based path to the database records.

New or Enhanced SharePoint 2007 features

• Realtime presence and communication - see whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation.
• Blogs - a publishing-oriented experience for a single user or a team. SharePoint templates support article posting, reader comments, archive views and RSS feed generation.
• Wikis – a new SharePoint site template which makes it easy to brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create guides or simply gather information in an easy-to-edit format.
• Content Management – fully integrated into the SharePoint Portal for the first time, making it easy to separate content from its presentation and devolve content authoring, review and approval to your business teams.
• Business Processes & Forms – New functionality through Office Forms Server 2007 makes it easy to create forms, set-up workflows and control authorisation in SharePoint.
• Business Intelligence – Publish results and key performance indicators (KPIs) from Excel direct to the SharePoint portal using Reports and Dashboards.

More from the MOSS 2007 website

Our SharePoint 2007 Experience

We have led the launch of one of the earliest and biggest SharePoint 2007 implementations in the UK; The Atkins plc Global Intranet Portal. Atkins is the largest engineering consultancy in the UK, the largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe and the third largest design firm in the world, with a £1.3bn capitalisation in the FTSE 250.  Atkins employ over 16,000 people across Europe, North America, the Middle East and China. See customer testimonial.

Our Intranet Consulting Services

Lead Consultant, David Viney, has delivered Intranet Portal projects at many of the UK’s largest companies, including British Airways and Centrica and is the author of the Intranet Portal Guide, used by literally thousands of people across the world to structure and deliver their Intranet Portal Programmes.

David and his “A-Team” network of associates are available for Strategic Consulting, Intranet Portal Design and Intranet Portal Delivery. We won’t waste your time and money; we simply provide the very best people with the most extensive experience in Intranet Project delivery. To find out more, why not contact us today.