What is Microsoft Sharepoint?
(from Dynamics AX Newsletter winter 2006/07)

Microsoft SharePoint will be increasingly seen as the glue which integrates Microsoft applications, but what is it and what
does it do?

Microsoft Sharepoint is a data distribution portal – think of it as a
notice board. Microsoft is using Sharepoint to publish data from all
of their data sources. This means that in one screen you can see
and interact with data from, for example:
• Microsoft Office documents
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft ERP applications
• Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
• Microsoft SQL server databases
• Microsoft – everything else!
• Non Microsoft Other applications

The tight integration of Sharepoint enables web distribution for all of
the other applications very easily through a single portal. This means a users I.T. experience should be accessible through a single browser based application – Sharepoint. It is hard to describe the application of such a broad based technology – it’s like asking what electricity can achieve.

Sharepoint has inherent Intranet style functionality including
calendars, document management (version, date and access
controlled), workflow management and much more.

To learn more about Sharepoint and access free downloads then
use the web link below:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepo
int/default.mspx