Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the overall Microsoft collaboration vision and integrates with other collaborative products to offer a comprehensive infrastructure for working with others.

Improve team productivity

High performing teams are a key to better business results.

• Give users the ability to create and control their own collaborative workspaces. Make it easy for teams to adapt workspaces to the needs of the project.
• Manage projects more efficiently with the project task list template. Visualise task relationships and project status with automated Gantt charts.
• Co-ordinate teamwork with shared calendars, alerts and notifications. Connect team calendars to the desktop with Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007.
• Communicate with team members in context using presence and instant messaging.
• Make it easy to include and work with team members from outside the organisation.
   

Author, review and publish documents

Improvements in key document-centric processes produce better content in less time.

• Use document workspaces to streamline the document creation process.
• Enable disconnected participation with offline support.
• Manage the document lifecycle with integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) capabilities.

Streamline people-driven business processes

Improved communication and coordination in people-driven processes means more rigorous execution in traditionally hard-to-reach parts of the business.

• Deploy standard site templates to improve common people driven processes like issue tracking.
• Drive out process variation with workflow.
• Create collaborative applications using integrated application development capabilities.
   

Create, capture and share community knowledge

• Sharing best practices in expert communities drives awareness and adoption of business process innovation.
• Broadcast information with blogs and Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
• Capture community knowledge with wikis.
  Encourage dialogue with surveys and discussions.