Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Features

Satisfy compliance and legal requirements

The Microsoft ECM solution also includes integrated records management capabilities that give organizations the capability to store and protect business records in their final state. Expiration policies applied to these records help ensure that the records are retained for the appropriate time period to comply with regulations or corporate business polices, thereby mitigating legal risk to the organization. Audit trails provide proof to internal and external auditors that records have been retained appropriately. Holds can be placed on specific records under legal discovery to prevent their destruction.

Organize with enhanced document management

1. Save time and easily reuse information. Organize and classify content within a centralized document repository to provide a consistent method for organizing, categorizing, navigating through, and quickly searching for the right information.

2. Help protect sensitive information. Help safeguard documents with integrated rights management that travels with documents wherever they may go. User access rights can be specified for individual items, and metadata can be removed from documents prior to final publication.

3. Streamline collaborative document creation. With built-in document workflows, you can initiate, track, and collaborate on document-oriented processes directly from within Microsoft Office system desktop programs. Important alerts and task information can be displayed in the document, helping to ensure that workflow steps are properly followed.

Consolidate with improved records management

1. Improve legal and regulatory compliance. Apply information retention, protection, and auditing policies to business records to help ensure these records are appropriately retained.

2. Help secure business and vital records. A security-enhanced repository helps ensure that records are locked in the final state.

3. Easy litigation discovery. Help ensure that information required for legal discovery can be retrieved in a cost-effective manner and placed on hold as per the discovery requirements.

Empower with automated forms solutions

1. Automate business processes, including many manual tasks by using Windows Workflow Foundation. Create new workflows with tools like Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

2. Gather information using electronic forms. Using Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, businesses can create electronic forms which are then deployed to various channels including Web sites, mobile devices, and rich client applications.

3. Rapidly deploy and manage forms solutions. Quickly deploy forms solutions side-by-side upgrades to help ensure minimum downtime. View the status of all deployed forms in a single view.