With MOSS Excel Services, you can:

• Broaden the access and availability of spreadsheets by incorporating interactive spreadsheets into business intelligence portals, dashboards, and scorecards.
• Secure and protect confidential information and maintain one version of the truth by locking down access at the server.
• Reduce development costs, and improve time to market by using Web services to access models and data contained in spreadsheets.
• Use Data Connection Libraries to provide an easy way for your users to share, manage, and discover connections to external data repositories without requiring any knowledge of the technical details.

These "tuned" search result provide a number of benefits for you:

• Relevance is tuned for enterprise content with the best results across structured and unstructured data sources determined by a rich and broad range of factors.
• Robust security, granular administrative controls comprehensive monitoring, analytics, and reporting help ensure compliance and protect intellectual property (IP).
• Enterprise-grade scalability, extensibility, and manageability meet the needs of even the largest organizations.

MOSS portal technology gives you:

• Audience targeting features allow information owners to decide how, when and where specific audiences consume their information.
• The 'My Site' personal site pulls together summary views of personal information, providing full control over information "for me, by me, and about me."
• Personalized information rollup allows users to create customized summaries of important information in the portal.

MOSS portal technology gives you:

• Audience targeting features allow information owners to decide how, when and where specific audiences consume their information.
• The 'My Site' personal site pulls together summary views of personal information, providing full control over information "for me, by me, and about me."
• Personalized information rollup allows users to create customized summaries of important information in the portal.

MOSS Collaboration is an extremely powerful tool:

• Present business-critical information in one central location. Create live, interactive business intelligence (BI) portals that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using integrated BI capabilities such as dashboards, Web Parts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and business data connectivity technologies. Centralized Report Center sites give users a single place to find the latest spreadsheets, reports, or KPIs.
• Instantly connect people with information. SharePoint Enterprise Search incorporates people and business data along with documents and Web pages to provide more comprehensive results. The Search Center provides a single integrated location for employees to find content, processes, people, and business data relevant to their specific needs. This enables people and organizations to make decisions more quickly, based on the latest information and facts.
• Share business data broadly while helping to protect sensitive information. Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides access to data and analytics in real time, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one centralized and up-to-date version while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents (such as financial models).
• Leverage your unstructured business networks to drive better decisions. Employees can use new MOSS knowledge management tools to get the most from their powerful unstructured business networks, both inside and outside their organizations, thereby connecting with people more quickly and efficiently. By exploring these undocumented business relationships and finding subject matter experts, individuals are able to make better decisions more quickly.
• Unlock business data. Out-of-the-box connectors provide accessibility to data in SAP and Siebel systems. The Business Data Catalog allows structured data from line-of-business applications to be integrated into SharePoint in multiple ways through Web Parts, lists, people profiles, and search. Centrally managed connections to back-end systems can be defined once and then reused by end users to access back-end data without writing any code—easily making business data part of portal content. The Business Data Catalog also provides the ability for SharePoint Enterprise Search to integrate back-end business data into the search experience, without having to write any protocol handlers, iFilters, or custom code.

Simplification of collaborative processes enables you to:

• Enhance customer and partner relationships. With smart, standards-based, electronic-forms-driven solutions, you can collect business information from customers and partners through a Web browser. Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) integration and support for other pluggable authentication providers makes it easier to work with non-Active Directory directory service sources, thereby simplifying extranet setups and facilitating tighter connectivity with customers, partners, and suppliers.
• Ubiquitous Enterprise Search. Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has great relevance and incorporates enterprise content such as people and business data, along with documents and Web pages, to provide more comprehensive results. Search is ubiquitous in Office SharePoint Server 2007, with tight integration into SharePoint sites, Web Parts, SharePoint lists, people profiles, and more. This enables people to look for the information they need wherever they navigate to within the portal. Enterprise Search has the capability to search through business data and the search results can be highly customized, for example, surfacing specific metadata elements of back-end records.
• Work when and where you want. With offline access to Office SharePoint Server 2007 lists and document libraries, you can free yourself from limitations of corporate network connectivity. Tight integration with Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 further enhances the offline experience for users.
• Connect and share knowledge. New knowledge management tools empower employees to create and leverage people networks, both inside and outside their organizations, so they can connect and share knowledge more quickly and efficiently with other people.
• Personalize operations. My Sites provide a totally personalized experience for users, with a dedicated site for each user. Each site can be used to store, present, view, and manage content, information, and applications in a controlled fashion. Each site can also be used to present information about the user such as skills and roles, colleagues and managers, groups and distribution lists the user belongs to, and documents the user is working on. And each site contains stringent privacy control and security mechanisms, so that each user can choose how much information to present, and to whom. My Sites can also be fully customized to suit individual requirements.

MOSS 2007 provides your IT staff with a plethora of powerful resources:

• Get enhanced interoperability support. Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on a scalable architecture, with support for Web services and interoperability standards including XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Office SharePoint Server 2007 also has rich, open application programming interfaces (APIs) and event handlers for lists and documents. This enables integration with existing systems and provides the flexibility to incorporate new non-Microsoft IT investments. LDAP integration support for other pluggable authentication providers makes it easier to work with non-Active Directory sources. Out-of-the-box WSRP Consumer Web Part enables integration with other WSRP-compliant portal solutions. Out-of-the-box connectors and Web parts for common line-of-business systems such as SAP and Siebel simplify how business users can access data from these systems directly from within portal-based solutions.
• Enable IT to focus on more strategic tasks. Users can now create sites, initiate workflows, self-provision applications, access back-end data, define security at a per-item level, restore deleted items, and complete other tasks without involving IT. This reduced user dependence on IT improves productivity and also allows the IT department to focus on providing real value-added services to the organization. The Business Data Catalog provides the ability to define and deploy a Business Information Library of connections to back-end systems. This feature can be reused by business users to create personalized views of business data without having to develop any custom code.
• Simplify deployment, management, and system administration. Managing a Web server farm, deploying new pieces of content, and managing synchronization across those sites is now much simpler. Deployment can be done in “top-down” or “bottom-up” fashion. Simplify site staging through out-of-the-box Site-starter Templates for common Web sites, with Area and Page layout templates and pre-configured navigation. And enhanced capabilities to backup and restore content helps IT professionals schedule backups, back up multiple site collections, and then restore each one individually.
• Robust system monitoring, usage tracking, and monitoring tools. These tools help isolate and solve problems faster and improve the operational efficiency of the system infrastructure.