SharePoint 2010 Overview

Sharepoint Overview

• SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Internet.
• When people need to work with other people, with content and information, or with line-of-     business data, they can use the rich, out-of-the-box set of integrated capabilities in the SharePoint 2010 platform.
• People can also customize these capabilities to address specific business needs and integrate them with other products and solutions.
• Using the same set of capabilities and tools, companies can deploy SharePoint 2010 both intranet and internet.


There are three main objectives of using SharePoint 2010. They are.
   o Deliver the best productivity
   o Cut costs with a unified infrastructure
   o Rapidly respond to business


Capabilities Area
SharePoint 2010 helps people work together in new and effective ways with a rich set of six integrated capabilities areas. 

Sites -Provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web sites.

Communities -Delivers great collaboration tools—and a single platform to manage them.

Search -Cuts through the clutter. Find the information and contacts.

Content -Makes Content Management easy. Such as document types, automatic content sorting.

Insight -Gives everyone access to the information in databases, reports, and business applications.

Composite - Offers tools and components for creating do-it-yourself business solutions.


I have just started to learn Sharepoint 2010. This is reference from SharePoint Evaluation Guide.

Thank you.