Nicoleta Nastase's List: SharePoint

• In the pie diagrams below you see that Microsoft divided both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 into 6 different core functional areas, and that these core concepts have evolved from the 2007 to the 2010 version.

  
  SharePoint 2007 and 2010 — Core Functional Area Comparison
• Sites: Building and Managing Internal and External Websites
• SharePoint 2010 comes with native Web CMS functionality. Regardless of how you use SharePoint, you will likely use some of this functionality, at least for internal collaboration websites. Broader uses could include running your entire intranet on SharePoint, or running your public-facing website(s) on SharePoint
• The ability to create detailed user profiles (think employee Facebook pages)
• Use of modern tools for sharing and collaboration including blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and activity streams
• The creation of special interest groups (Communities) to share knowledge or work on projects (these often map directly to your company's org chart)
• Interactivity and engagement via commenting and discussions around content items, and social tagging/bookmarking of content 
• The creation of separate personal spaces or dashboards called MySites where you can keep track of your own content, and the work you are doing in certain communities, projects and more
• Content: Managing Your Documents, Information and Records
• Organizations typically have two types of content: documents and information used to complete tasks and activities, and records.
• Records differ from the previous category in that they are documents and information that must be frozen and stored for compliance and/or regulatory purposes.
• Microsoft has greatly improved the usability of both document and records management within SharePoint 2010.
• SharePoint 2010 has two levels of search: the built in functionality which is greatly improved from SharePoint 2007 and FAST Search, offering additional functionality
• Refine results based on user profile or audience
• . Insights: Digging for Business Intelligence
• Use tools like Excel to gather and analyze data that is stored in SharePoint
• Use SharePoint's native Excel Services engine to crunch data and build web-based reports
• Pull together information from different systems and present it in SharePoint
• Create dashboards, scorecards, and other views — making key performance indicators widely accessible to information workers and process managers
• Composites: Integrating Your Business Systems
• nstead of having to work in multiple systems, you can create composite applications — mashups, if you like that term — on the SharePoint platform that pull together various data and content from different systems, including SharePoint content, to provide a single location for an employee to work.
• Using SharePoint you can create web-based forms that update SharePoint databases or update external databases. These forms can even feed into Word or Excel documents — the disparate data can become a composite right inside your MS Office applications, or in your browser.
• SharePoint As A Cloud Platform
• This is the vision of Enterprise 2.0 and the one Microsoft seeks to enable via their SharePoint platform and tools.

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