Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

Chapter 1. An Introduction to SharePoint

SharePoint is Microsoft's enterprise-level application solution for organizations wanting to deploy any combination of an internet, intranet, or extranet with a consistent user experience. By heavily leveraging other Microsoft Office family products, SharePoint allows teams to work together and collaborate when separated across the country or even the globe. SharePoint is currently one of Microsoft's fastest growing products with over 75 million licenses sold. Perhaps most important to business planners is that Forrester lists SharePoint as the number one portal product on the market and Gartner places SharePoint 2007 as a leader in their "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products in August 2007." ...