Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
Over the last several years, organizations have created a huge volume of unstructured content that includes documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages, and more. This content often exists in a state of unmanaged chaos that prevents an organization from properly using these valuable assets for better knowledge sharing, improved customer communications, and increased process efficiency. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Microsoft is a key component of an organization's infrastructure that can help companies overcome these challenges.
Built on a well-integrated platform, ECM from Microsoft easily extends content management to every information worker in an organization through integration with familiar tools such as the Microsoft Office system. More....
Business Processes and Forms
Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 provides built-in workflow templates to automate approval, review, and archiving processes. With Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010, you can also create, maintain, and analyze custom workflows, enabling you to streamline your collaborative processes. Electronic forms provided through InfoPath Forms Services are an integral part of such workflows. These electronic forms designed in InfoPath make it easy to collect and validate information that drives your business processes. And you can collect and validate this information right from the Microsoft Office client applications you use every day. More....
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 provides an infrastructure that makes it easy for decision-makers to access information anytime, anywhere. People can get up-to-date information where they work, collaborate, and make decisions, whether it's on the desktop or over the Web. More....
Web Content Management
Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 is the foundation of an optimized business productivity infrastructure—the first comprehensive approach to solving the problems that people encounter in the unstructured world of work. Rather than treating information management and access, collaboration, and people-driven processes as isolated challenges, Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 encompasses the whole continuum of unstructured work as a single set of related issues that demand a single, strategic approach. This offers the following significant benefits.
- Simplicity for end users, who can leverage their familiarity with Office-based applications and the browser environment for all their information-work activities, regardless of their role or task. Value and governance for IT, which only needs to support a single set of technologies to enable comprehensive capabilities across the enterprise.
- Speed and flexibility for the business, which can customize and extend the platform quickly and easily at a variety of levels from personalization to enterprise application development.
- The security and scalability of a platform built for the enterprise.
The Microsoft Web Content Management solution included in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 helps businesses communicate, collaborate, and interact with employees, partners, and customers around the globe by providing a unified enterprise platform for enabling individual agility. By helping customers to project a consistent corporate brand and to put publishing power into the hands of business users, organizations can improve the effectiveness of the online channel while dramatically decreasing the cost associated with managing multiple Web sites. Learn more about these Enterprise Content Management features. More....