The Complete Portal Solution for Content Aggregation and Document Management

SharePoint Portal Server 2001 creates a portal Web site that allows users to share documents and search for information across the organization and enterprise, including SharePoint Team Services based Web sites all within one extensible portal interface. And, SharePoint Portal Server includes robust document management features that allow companies to incorporate business processes into their portal solution. SharePoint Portal Server 2001 is a stand-alone server product and is now available through Forbes Technology Group. 

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End-to-End Solution

Small workgroups often get by using a combination of e-mail, file servers, and their own hard drives to store and share information. This type of information sharing has become the status quo for team information sharing because all members can participate easily and equally, but it does not create an organized record of a team's efforts. Using a SharePoint Team Services based Web site gives teams an easy and informal way to centralize and share project and team information with team members and other interested parties within the organization.

At an organization or business-division level, however, information sharing requirements naturally become more sophisticated. Using SharePoint Portal Server 2001, organizations can aggregate content from across the organization into a portal Web site so that their users can find the information they need to make better business decisions, regardless of where the data resides. This requires comprehensive search capabilities and the ability to manage large volumes of information across a great number of data stores. Business units also need advanced document management, including structured publishing processes to ensure the information they are sharing is complete and up to date.

Together SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2001 can provide an end-to-end solution that addresses the information-sharing needs for organizations of all sizes. SharePoint Team Services enables an organization to provide a solution for workgroup information sharing that requires little in the way of IT support, while SharePoint Portal Server allows enterprises to effectively aggregate corporate knowledge across file servers, databases, public folders, and Internet sites as well as SharePoint Team Services based Web sites.