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Microsoft SharePoint

    Microsoft 提供企业级功能来满足关键业务需求，例如：管理内容和业务流程、简化人员跨部门查找和共享信息的方式，以及做出合理的决策。

    SharePoint Portal Server 2003 提供了一个企业的业务解决方案，它利用了放碟工作流的单点登录和企业应用程序集成功能，以及灵活的部署选项和管理工具，将来自不同系统的信息集成到一个解决方案中。这个门户站点使得端到端的合作更为容易，实现了个人、团队和信息的整合、组织和搜索。用户可以通过门户内容、布局的定制和个性化以及目标受众，更快地找到相关信息。公司可以根据受众的公司职位、团队身份、兴趣或其他可以设置的成员规则来设定信息、程序和更新。

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 使用Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2003站点为个人、信息和公司创建门户页面。这些页面可以通过公司和管理工具来扩展Windows SharePoint Services 站点的功能，并且使得团队能够在他们的站点中想整个企业发布消息。

发行版本有SharePoint 2003、SharePoint 2007、SharePoint 2010和SharePoint 2013.

    Microsoft SharePoint is a Web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint has historically been associated with intranet, content management and document management, but recent versions have significantly broader capabilities. It is a major software for creating organizational intranets.

    SharePoint是一个可扩展的给予Web的平台，它有一些共同构成所谓的“SharePoint产品和技术”(SharePoint Products and Technologies) 的工具与技术组成。SharePoint总软件包是一个平台，可以在该平台上构建业务应用程序，一遍更好地存储、共享和管理机构内的数字信息。由于构建应用程序时，可以有代码，也可以无代码，因此，一般的也能用该该软件包创建、部署和管理团队网站，不在需要熟练的技术人员(如系统管理员和开发员) 利用列表、库和Web Part，能够将团队网站转换成为专门构建的，这样能使机构业务过程更加高效的业务应用程序。

  SharePoint comprises a multipurpose set of Web technologies backed by a common technical infrastructure. By default, SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite. The we tools are designed to be usable by non-technical users. SharePoint can be used to provide intranet portals, document  & final management, collaboration, social networks, intranets, websites, enterprise search, and business intelligence. It also has system integration, process integration, and workflow automation capabilities.

  SharePoint产品和技术

  SharePoint产品和技术提供了一下两个主要部分：

   (1)Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: 用于 Windows Server 2003 和 Small Business Server 2003，它包含了文档管理与协同所需要的核心功能，如文档库和列表。

   (2)Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010: SharePoint Portal Server的新版本，提供的功能与WSS类似，但对企业内容管理(Enterprise Content Management)、Excel服务于窗体服务(Excel and Forms Services)、业务数据目录(Business Data Catalog) 和 商务智能(Business Intelligence) 的处理不同。SharePoint还提供了一个更稳健和可定制性更强的搜索引擎，同时还具有将存储在SharePoint环境中的信息比WSS更可定制，更可聚合的格式来部署信息这一特殊功能。

    Enterprise application software (e.g. ERP or CRM packages) often provide some SharePoint integration capability, and SharePoint also incorporates a complete development stack based on web technologies and standards-based APIs. As an application platform, SharePoint provides central management, governance, and security controls for implementation of these requirements. The SharePoint platform integrates directly into IIS - enabling bulk management, scaling, and provisioning of servers, as is often required by large organizations or cloud hosting providers.

    SharePoint的主要功能

    SharePoint为企业提供了通过一个中心位置来链接人、过程和信息的工具。

    (1)Web内容管理

         我们可以利用熟悉的应用程序(如电子邮件或Web浏览器)来创建和发布Web内容。

    (2)监控关键业务活动

         利用企业工具，可以有效地在机构中管理和监控各种业务事件。

     (3)简化协同

          SharePoint的协同工具便易性。

    According to Microsoft, SharePoint is used by 78% of Fortune 500 companies. Between 2006 to 2011, Microsoft sold over 36.5 million user licesnes. Microsoft has two versions of SharePoint available at no cost, but it sells premium editions with additional functionality, and provides a cloud service edition as part of their Office 365 platform (previously BPOS). The product is also sold through a cloud model by many third-party vendors.

Office 365

Office 365 is a subscription-based online office and software plus services suite which offers access to various services and software built around the Microsoft Office platform.

Serving as a successor to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, the service was originally designed to provede hosted e-mail, social networking and collaboration, and cloud storage to teams and businesses. As such, it first included hosted version of Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Office Web Apps, along with access to the Microsoft Office 2010 desktop applications on the Enterprise plan. WIth the release of Office 2013, Office 365 expanded to include new plans aimed at different types of businesses, along with new plans aimed at general consumers wanting to use the Office desktop software on a subscription basis.

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