Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a versatile collaboration technology that companies of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to the information they need.
Windows SharePoint Services helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information that they need to make more informed decisions and get the job done. Windows SharePoint Services makes it easy to share documents, track tasks, use e-mail efficiently and effectively, and share ideas and information. For example, Windows SharePoint Services:
- Provides workspaces for teams to coordinate schedules, organize documents, and participate in discussions — within the organization and over the extranet.
- Allows you to easily author and manage documents, and includes Document Management features, such as the option to require document checkout before editing, the ability to view past revisions and restore to previous versions, and the ability to set document-specific security.
- Helps people and teams stay on task with a variety of communication features that let users know when actions are required or important changes are made to existing information or documentation, including announcements, sophisticated alerts, surveys, and discussion boards.
- Provides creative forums for brainstorming ideas, building knowledge bases, or simply gathering information in an easy-to-edit format, including templates for creating Blogs and Wikis (Web sites that can be quickly edited by team members — no special technical knowledge required).
Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building secure Web-based business applications that can scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your business. With a familiar, Web-based interface and close integration with Microsoft Office, Windows SharePoint Services is easy to use and can be deployed rapidly.
Visit our Windows SharePoint Services demo site.
Application Templates
Microsoft provides a set of 40 Application Templates that can be downloaded and used with Windows SharePoint Services. Application Templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in companies of any size. These templates also provide a good starting point for developing more company-specific SharePoint-based solutions. An example of each of the 40 Application Templates can be found on our Application Templates demo site.
Resources:
- Top 10 Benefits of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Link to an article on Microsoft's website)
- Using Blogs and Wikis in Business (Link to a Microsoft article hosted on this website)
- Application Template Descriptions (Link to an article on Microsoft's website)
- Application Template Datasheets (Link to an article on Microsoft's website)
