Microsoft Sharepoint

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 offers powerful integration, collaboration, and customisation capabilities to help connect people, teams, and knowledge.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is an enterprise portal that provides a central place to access, manage, share, and interact with relevant information, documents, applications and people for quicker and better decisions, effective teaming, and streamlined business process through a familiar integrated user experience and mainstream platform.

                           

The following is a list of default features offered by SharePoint. However, as with most web based applications the system is virtually limitless in its functionality, it can be developed to your exact requirements.
Document Libraries
Create a document library when you have a collection of documents or other files that you want to share. Document libraries support features such as sub-folders, file versioning, and check-in/check-out.

Form Library

Create a form library when you have XML-based business forms, such as status reports or purchase orders, that you want to manage.

Picture Libraries

Create a picture library when you have pictures you want to share. Picture libraries provide special features for managing and displaying pictures, such as thumbnails, download options, and a slide show.

Links

Create a links list when you have links to intranets, websites or other resources that you want to share.

Announcements

Create an announcements list when you want a place to share news, status, and other short bits of information.

Contacts

Create a contacts list when you want to manage information about people that your team works with such as customers or partners. You can share information between your contacts list and Windows SharePoint Services-compatible contacts programs such as Microsoft Exchange, Outlook or Active Directory users.

Events

Create an events list when you want a calendar-based view of upcoming meetings, deadlines, and other important events. You can share information between your events list and Windows SharePoint Services-compatible events programs such as Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.

Tasks

Create a tasks list when you want to track a group of work items that you or your team needs to complete.

Issues

Create an issues list when you want to manage a set of issues or problems. You can assign, prioritize, and follow the progress of issues from start to finish.

Custom Lists

Create a custom list when you want to specify your own columns. The list opens as a Web page and lets you add or edit items one at a time.

Import Spreadsheet

Choose this if you have a spreadsheet that already contains the columns and information that you want in your list. Once created, the list can be synchronized with the original spreadsheet. Importing and synchronizing a spreadsheet requires a SharePoint Services-compatible spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel XP or later.

Discussions Boards

Choose this if you have a spreadsheet that already contains the columns and information that you want in your list. Once created, the list can be synchronized with the original spreadsheet. Importing and synchronizing a spreadsheet requires a SharePoint Services-compatible spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel 2002 or later.

Surveys

Create a survey when you want to poll other Web site users. Surveys provide features that allow you to quickly create questions and define how users specify their answers.

Web Parts

Create a Web Part Page when you want to add a Web page to this site that displays one or more Web Parts. Web Parts provide an easy way to build powerful Web pages that can show you information ranging from a view of a list in the current site to the latest data from Web Services hosted around the world. Web Part Pages even allow for Web Part personalization, ensuring each user sees only the most relevant information.

Sites & Workspaces

Create a site or workspace when you want a new place for collaborating on Web pages, lists, and document libraries. For example, you might create a site to manage a new team or project, collaborate on a document, or prepare for a meeting. You can specify the type of SharePoint site to create from a set of available site templates.