Office and Share Point 2010 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word

Chapter 1. An Overview of SharePoint

This book first went on sale as Microsoft introduced SharePoint 2010, a remarkable follow-up to the highly successful SharePoint 2007 product. It is hard to believe that it was only three years ago that SharePoint 2007 debuted as enterprise-level application solution for organizations deploying various combinations of internet, intranet, and extranet sites. It was so successful that Gartner placed SharePoint 2007 in its 2008 leader's quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, Enterprise Content Management, and Information Access Technology. By heavily leveraging Microsoft's Office family products, the SharePoint environment allows teams to work together and collaborate even when separated across the country or ...