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What is Microsoft SharePoint 2010?

SharePoint 2010 is a business collaboration platform which combines a number of Microsoft technologies which together provide a number of solutions to meet changing business or user needs. It will improve an organisation’s effectiveness by streamlining the management of data and simplifying how people find and share information. Its ability to integrate with existing systems, coupled with features that are flexible enough to meet individual business needs make its offering unique in the market place.

dhc have created a powerful integration tool to facilitate a link between Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Access Dimensions which will enable organisations to better distribute information, reduce duplication and save time. For more information click here Microsoft SharePoint to Access Dimensions Connector 

The platform contains a number of solutions for different business needs. Some of the key areas are:

• Document Management
• Collaboration
• Business Intelligence
• Search

Document Management

With no formal document management system in place, content is often created and saved in an unmanaged and decentralised way on file shares and individual hard drives. This makes the information difficult to find, share and collaborate with.

SharePoint 2010 can provide a single platform which focuses on the storage and organisation of documents throughout your organisation. It can help you:

• Store, organise and locate documents
• Implement automated version control and audit history
• Implement a workflow process for approval and consistency
• Manage content types and metadata
• Protect documents from unauthorised access
• Ensure consistent business process using workflow around creation and approval of content

Collaboration

Sharing information across individuals and teams is often an integral part of any organizations strategy. SharePoint 2010 provides capabilities to help transform the way we work together, whether reaching to business partners and customers or between individuals and teams within the organisation.

Features such as wikis, blogs and forums can be used to build a valuable information store tailored to your organisation. This is achieved by facilitating the sharing of knowledge from experience, training, past projects etc. In addition to this, features such as calendars, tasks lists and document libraries help create workspaces to manage projects, meetings or events.

This functionality can enable an organisation to build a valuable knowledgebase and, with the combination of features, allow people to become more productive whilst working in a secure and manageable environment.

 Business Intelligence

Business intelligence solutions provide access to relevant information and analysis to help the people in your organisation make the best possible business decisions. Information can typically exist in a number of different systems and applications. Using SQL Server and SharePoint 2010 information can be consolidated and distributed across the entire organisation.

SharePoint 2010 has a number BI features, including:

• Excel Services
• Visio Services
• Reporting Services
• Charting Controls
• Performance Point Services
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Search

Many organisations have to manage a lot of information which can be held in various formats and locations.  Its important people can find and retrieve this information quickly and effectively, not doing so can greatly impact productively.

SharePoint 2010 Search helps people find the information they need to get their jobs done. It includes an interactive and visual search experience, with visual cues help people find information quickly, while refiners let them drill into the results.

With SharePoint 2010 you can search:

• Content held in SharePoint
• File Shares
• Line of business applications