MOSS 2007 | SharePoint Server Setups for the Bay Area

SharePoint and WSS 3.0 Allow Your Organization to Collaborate, Manage Documents, and Build Websites All in One Server Platform

How much time would you regain if you could manage all the company’s information, and your entire website – from the same application?

How much time would your co-workers recoup if they could all work on the same project at once, without endless emails back-and-forth and countless hours deciding what the final document contains?

How much more website traffic would you get if several (authorized) people could update it instead of just one?

Thanks to interactive technologies like ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0), we now have a server platform with all these capabilities. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – "MOSS 2007" for short.

MOSS 2007 provides a complete system in which to build custom, interactive websites and knowledge bases. MOSS supports all intranet, extranet and enterprise-level Web applications within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems.

MOSS 2007 has both internal and external (customer-facing) functionalities. Devote custom internal webpages to teams or specific projects. Store company documents and/or processes in a shared repository. Build interactive websites which are easy to update later. Use the workflow built into MOSS 2007 to create simple approval processes.

All from within the MOSS2007 interface.

We've divided up a selection of MOSS 2007's capabilities below, into Internal and External (customer-facing) categories.

MOSS 2007 Internal Capabilities

Gather together all the content in your organization with the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features. Reports, emails, customer data, services information, team plans, calendars, task lists, workflow, you name it.
Use MOSS 2007 as an intranet, knowledge base, BI platform for Performance Point Server, and shared calendars – all at once!
Build specialized sites for specific projects, team collaboration, even portals for department operations. These portals are not location-dependent; employees in San Francisco can access them as easily as employees in New York.
Keep teams up-to-date on any information changed for their projects with their own RSS feeds.
Modify MOSS with Office: Use your everyday applications to update data on the MOSS server. Access document libraries in Word, shared worksheets in Excel, reports in Access, etc.
Use MOSS 2007 Web Parts to build Dashboards. Assemble data from multiple sources, like KPIs, shared Excel spreadsheets, and SQL Server 2005 reports. View important customer or market information all in one place.
Use MOSS 2007 to access and query your organization's Line of Business (LOB) data, which helps you organize your company's data into one unified platform.

MOSS 2007 External (Customer-Facing) Capabilities

Build your entire website in MOSS 2007, like you would with a CMS. Modify any page in real time, publish it on-demand.
Design your website with the built-in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 application. With ASP.NET Master Pages, design changes in SharePoint Designer 2007 are reflected automatically to the rest of the site.
All users (with appropriate permissions) can update documents on SharePoint sites themselves. Instead of funneling webpage changes through one already-overworked administrator.
All MOSS 2007 content is stored in SQL 2005 databases. SQL 2005 contains built-in security precautions, as well as backup mechanisms. Your website’s content is always safe.
Work on documents remotely from a familiar Office interface. With MOSS 2007's Web Parts you can log into your workspace or My Site from anywhere.
Run a search engine inside your company with MOSS 2007’s Enterprise Search capability. Search through documents, people's records, emails, etc.
Use a workflow to control the approval process for document publishing.

Read more of MOSS 2007's capability to build websites in our MOSS 2007 -- Websites Datasheet.

MOSS 2007 already runs in some of the world's largest enterprises, like Del Monte Foods, Wachovia Corp., BMW and Canon. PlanetMagpie has installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for our Bay Area clients since it first became available. In fact, PlanetMagpie was the only consulting company in Northern California selected by Microsoft to conduct a Customer Beta of the MOSS 2007 software.

MOSS technology is fast replacing content management systems (CMS) and ECM platforms in enterprise networks. Currently we staff not one, but four MOSS 2007 experts. (That's how in-demand this server platform is.)

One of our experts has even set up a PerformancePoint Server 2007 implementation (see the link for more on PerformancePoint) while still in beta!

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area and you're interested in finding out ways Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 could work in your organization, call PlanetMagpie at 408-341-8770 for an initial meeting today. Let's determine what level MOSS 2007 implementation will serve you the most.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Webpage

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