The official definition of SharePoint Technologies is:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

That’s quite a mouthful. Now, let’s get to the real meaning:

SharePoint Works!!

SharePoint can help you increase the productivity of your employees. Properly implemented it can improve communication, reduce wasted time, eliminate duplicated effort and create a more efficient, well informed work environment. All using the same basic technologies you’ve been using (Microsoft Office). SharePoint is the fastest growing server platform in Microsoft history.

Yes, all that and more.

What SharePoint is not is important as well. It is not new, SharePoint has been around since Microsoft Server 2000 in its original form. It has been fine tuned and improved over the last nine years and a new version is due for release in 2010. It is not a solution in itself, it helps combine the solutions you are already using in your company (Microsoft Office) and improves them by helping people use those technologies more efficiently. It is not hard to learn, most of the new tasks involved can be learned in few minutes and immediate results can be seen.

We invite you to look around and familiarize yourself with some of the benefits of SharePoint on our site, and at Microsoft’s site. Give us a call (717.471.5956) or send us an email, let us come in and discuss with you how SharePoint may help your organization become more efficient and leverage the investment you have already made in your workforce and the technology they use.