Microsoft SharePoint Server is a platform that allows people to collaborate through interactive Web technology. Teams can manage sets of documents through project lifecycles, capture structured and non-structured data that can be leveraged in reporting functions, and build composite business applications.
For many, SharePoint is not considered a Line of Business (LOB) system. It has historically been considered a document management system. So, why is it included in this book? The reality is that SharePoint is constantly being used as a LOB system as organizations continue to make investments in the technology. No longer is SharePoint just a storage location for Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. SharePoint is very much a platform much like BizTalk. The difference being that SharePoint is a Collaboration platform whereas BizTalk is an Integration Platform, among other things. SharePoint includes an underlying framework called SharePoint...