Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies is an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. This suite serves as the foundation for developing collaboration and information-sharing applications hosted within an easy-to-use, secure, scalable, enterprise portal.

SharePoint Portal enables a single point of access to multiple systems such as Microsoft Office System programs, business intelligence and project management systems, and existing line-of-business applications, including third-party and industry-specific programs. This integration enables your organization to harness information and resources, providing users a way to extract and reuse timely and relevant information from systems and reports, and quickly locate and access documents, projects, and best practices across the company. Key features of Portal tools for the Enterprise include:

• News Content and Publication Tools
• Group and Audience targeting for more relevant content publication and delivery
• Powerful indexing and searching across file shares, Web servers, secure Web servers, Exchange Public Folders, Lotus Notes, and SharePoint sites
• Single sign-on for enterprise application integration
• Integration with BizTalk server for integration with line-of-business applications
• Integration with Active Directory and Microsoft Office Products

SharePoint sites for teams, documents, and meetings provide powerful team collaboration environments that enable organizations to aggregate, organize, easily find and make use of people, teams, and existing best practices, rather than reinvent the wheel with each project. Individual users are also provided personal portal pages where they can organize the information, programs and sites they access throughout the day.

• Personal Sites with private and public views
• Flexibility, personalization and customization through web parts (dashboard tools) and web part pages.
• Alerts and subscriptions for users to monitor content and sites of interest
• Self-Service Site Creation without the need for web development experience

The products and technologies which make it all happen are collectively known as Microsoft Integrated Portal Technologies (MIPT). They include:

• BizTalk Server
• Commerce Server
• Content Management Server
• SharePoint Portal Server
• Windows SharePoint Services
• InfoPath

Learn more about the products which make up MIPT.