SharePoint is a collaboration tool that provides a space in which an organization can share information. Create document libraries (equivalent to shared folders on the network), manage versions of files, find information, create calendars and contact lists, manage projects, create polls, blogs or wikis and many other possibilities with their development capabilities applications.
Access to SharePoint will be made via the Web and have access only those people who have been invited to it.
Types of SharePoint collaboration portals
Internal use:
The use of the workspace is limited to members within the network to access often called an intranet.
External use:
The use of the workspace is can be accessed both internally and remotely and is often called an extranet.
General SharePoint Features
The most important features of Sharepoint are:
- Library documents: the most common, can store documents, structured file away and subfolders.
- Wiki pages Library: Look to create a small, very useful to quickly create and relate it to other documentation.
- Image Library: Similar to the document library, except where there are just pictures, with icons showing us your content fast.
- Schedule: very similar to an Outlook calendar, lets you define daily events, times, newspapers
- Contacts: equivalent to an Outlook contact.
- Tasks: equivalent to Outlook tasks.
- Project tasks: similar to above but lets see the tasks as a basic Gantt chart, a calendar on the timing to do the same.
- Survey: allows sophisticated surveys with questions of different types, which automatically recorded the results.
- Discussion: Similar to a newsgroup or online discussion forum, a question can be answered by several people, and these in turn by others.
- Announcements: a basic list for an ad with an expiration date, which are shown by default homepage until they expire.
- Links: a list to keep URLs of sites.
- Follow-up matters: a simple helpdesk where incidents are created that must be addressed and resolved.
