 SharePoint Portal Server is the flexible portal solution that lets you find,
share, and publish information easily. With SharePoint Portal Server, you are
able to utilize existing information effectively, and to capture information in
new ways that make sense for your business. In addition, you can rapidly deploy
an out-of-the-box portal site and easily use Web-Parts technology to customize a
Web-based view of your organization.
IntentionallyU utilizes the powerful SharePoint technologies from Microsoft to create an IntraNet that meets your business needs.
Customized Portal Solution
 A portal needs to be easy to set up, and for maximum benefit needs to be
tailored to an organization's specific needs. With SharePoint Portal Server, you
have the ability to quickly deploy an out-of-the-box portal solution that
facilitates finding, creating, and sharing all of your mission-critical data
from a browser-based interface. And because the SharePoint Portal is comprised
fully of Web Parts, it can be easily customized for your business needs. With
Web Part technology, you can also customize this interface, managing common
resources, such as your contacts, calendars, and messages.
Customers can
also extend SharePoint Portal Server and add additional Web application
functionality. SharePoint Portal Server is designed around industry and Internet
standards, such as OLE DB, Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects
(ADO), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Microsoft Web Distributed Authoring
and Versioning (WebDAV), making it easy for developers familiar with these
standards. Due to this support of standards, the use of tools like Microsoft
Visual Studio® allows you to integrate Active Server Pages
(ASP) functionality into the portal.
Integrated Document Management
 Everyone works with documents, but not everyone has the ability to use
technology to structure how they work with their colleagues on these documents.
The process from document creation through intranet publishing can be a string
of disjointed actions, unconnected with business processes. SharePoint Portal
Server includes features like document locking, versioning, and publishing and
makes these features accessible to the average user. It delivers easy-to-use,
document-management features that are integrated with the tools and applications
that are used to create and manage documents, with Microsoft Windows® Explorer and Microsoft Office 2000 applications like Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint®.
Using SharePoint Portal Server, you can also save and check documents
into the document store, capturing business-relevant metadata in Document
Profile forms. You can also tailor forms to your organization. Tracking changes
though multiple drafts as a document is edited, reviewed, and approved is
accomplished using integrated approval routing. This occurs prior to publishing
for public viewing on the intranet dashboard site. You can also roll back to a
previous version of a document. Look for features like Document Collaboration,
Profiling, Lifecycle Management, and Web-based document management through a
browser.
Scalable Enterprise Search
 Locating information in any organization can be challenging. In addition,
wading through the different forms, file formats, and storage locations that
information requires (documents on file servers, HTML pages on Web servers, or
e-mail on messaging servers), and finding what you need when you need it, can be
difficult. People need a consistent place to access needed information—and in a
structured way that makes sense. Intranet portals have become the place where
such information is aggregated, organized, and searchable.
With
SharePoint Portal Server, you have the power of Microsoft's robust search
technologies to create an intranet site that lets you easily access key content
from a broader set of enterprise information. In addition to having one
comprehensive place in the portal to search, you can also set the portal to have
information come to you with information subscription—directly delivering new
and changed content notifications.
Some of the features to explore in
SharePoint Portal Server are Subscriptions, Category Browsing, Best Bets in
Search results, and extensibility using third-party, or your own, digital
dashboard Web Parts.
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