Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Overview

Microsoft® Office SharePoint™ Portal Server 2003 enables enterprises to seamlessly connect users, teams and knowledge via a web portal turning current islands of information into uniified data across business processes. The portal facilitates end-to-end collaboration by enabling aggregation, organization, and search capabilities for people, teams, and information. Users can find relevant information quickly through customization and personalization of portal content and layout, as well as by audience targeting. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 also provides enterprise application integration capabilities, flexible deployment options and easy to use management tools.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 was designed with the following goals in mind:

Put Information to Work

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables a single point of access to multiple systems.  These systems include Microsoft Office System 2003 applications, business intelligence systems, project management systems, Line of Business applications, and industry-specific applications. Users can extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects, and Best Practices across the company.  The portal is built on a highly scalable, highly distributed architecture, and provides flexible tools for deployment, development, and management.  This enables the portal to grow with your organization’s needs.

 

Connect Collaborative People and Spaces

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides a powerful team collaboration environment that enables organizations to aggregate, organize, find, and distribute information across the enterprise. This enables employees to easily find and leverage existing resources rather than reinvent the wheel with each new project. SharePoint sites can also be extended to customers and partners. Document versioning, approval workflow, check in and check out, document profiling, and publishing facilitate collaboration on documents, projects, and tasks.

Target and Tailor Information to Be More Productive

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides users with the ability to customize and personalize the portal experience. Relevant content is delivered to the portal through Web Parts. Web Parts can be downloaded from Microsoft, industry partners, or developed using Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET. Authorized users can add Web Parts to organizational or divisional portals, without the need for any Web development experience. In addition, IT departments can “lock down” specific Web Parts or page zones so that organizations can distribute important information to all employees through the portal. Each user is also provided a personal portal page, called My Site, where they can organize the information, applications and sites they access throughout the day.