Collaboration: while using a SharePoint site you are allowed to share information and get your work done more efficiently. A SharePoint site also offers workspaces and tools that your team can use to track projects, coordinate schedules, and collaboratively create and edit documents.

Portals and personalization: You can use portal sites to work collaboratively and access people, information, and business applications that you need in order to get your job done. Office SharePoint Server includes features that organizations can use to personalize the portal site for individuals or groups of users.

Search: You need something but can’t find it? Well, you can use the search on a SharePoint site to help you find information, files, Websites, and people.

Enterprise Content Management: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides powerful Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features for creating, managing, and storing content throughout an enterprise. You can use workflows (workflow: The automated movement of documents or items through a specific sequence of actions or tasks related to a business process. Workflows can be used to consistently manage common business processes, such as document approval or review.), to help manage the process of creating, reviewing, publishing, and even managing the content that your organization creates.

Document management: Document management capabilities can help you consolidate content from multiple locations into a Document Center, which is a centrally managed repository that has consistent categorization.

Records management: Integrated records management capabilities can help you store and protect business records in their final state.

Web content management: Web content management capabilities enable people to publish Web content with an easyto- use content authoring tool and a built-in approval process.

Business process and forms: Office SharePoint Server provides many features that can help you integrate and streamline your 12 eSense Services business processes. You can create browser-based forms and gather data from organizations that do not use Microsoft Office InfoPath. Workflows can streamline the cost of coordinating common business processes, such as project approval or document review, by managing and tracking the tasks involved with these processes.