What are SharePoint's capabilities?

Microsoft Sharepoint is an intranet portal application that allows its users to collaborate on a number of different business related activities. Among it's chief capabilities is the ability to host discussions on various topics, track meetings including agendas and action points and manage projects. Sharepoint may also be used as a repository for documents that can be edited by various team members. One of the more popular uses of Sharepoint is as an information portal. Developers have the ability to develop and host "live" reports that can be updated real time and used by management to keep an eye on the day-to-day metrics of their business. Additionally, it can serve as an internal social media hub by hosting internal blogs or bringing in posts from external blogs and RSS feeds. Sharepoint Administrators can also give users the ability to create their own sites based on that user's individual needs.Once implemented, all of this is managed through a hierarchal system similiar to LDAP so that Administrators can give one person the ability to manage and create sites and leave administration of these sites and subsequent "sub" sites to one or more people in an organization who have been given this ability. Since Sharepoint works with templates and wizards much of the end user site creation can be done with little training. It's sort of a website in a box.

Hi, Frank -

SharePoint has various capabilities that can address various business collaboration challenges. If you want to see a full list of its' features and capabilities, you can find it here:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/capabilities/Pages/default.aspx

Here are some example videos/articles to further see how SharePoint can be leveraged for your business:

- 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss http://spgur.us/7tKkKz
- How to Prioritize Business Needs Before Implementing SharePoint http://spgur.us/8sCiVR
- 7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for PM Success http://spgur.us/cureCt
- SharePoint as a Gov 2.0 Platform http://spgur.us/9PIbqI
- Delivering SharePoint Success: Why Collaboration is More Than Just Technology http://spgur.us/cX3I6G

All the best,
Dux