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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Consulting
Softweb Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified Company is a leading Microsoft SharePoint services provider with the team of expert SharePoint Professionals. We have been serving SharePoint Solutions since the beginning of the technology. Our team of SharePoint developers has extensive experience in deploying, managing and supporting SharePoint Solutions which make them capable of serving efficient solutions. We have been delivering world-class MOSS 2007 Solutions to our clients and now we have decided to deliver de-facto solutions harnessing SharePoint 2010.
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Introduction to SharePoint 2010:
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a Business Collaborative Platform for enterprise and web with superior features and functionalities. It enables you to connect people through formal and informal business communities, within the enterprise and beyond it. In addition, it enables users to manage content throughout the information lifecycle.
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Capabilities of SharePoint 2010
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The main features of SharePoint 2010 are:
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- Connect and Empower people: SharePoint 2010 enables people to access resources from anywhere and at any time, which let them work efficiently and promptly. SharePoint 2010 integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office enhancing user experience for accessing, editing and publishing SharePoint sites
- Cut Costs with a unified Infrastructure: SharePoint 2010 optimizes IT resources by lowering the total cost of ownership. It does this by combining key business collaboration solutions with SharePoint 2010 and further leveraging the common platform to execute solutions for intranet, extranet, and internet presence.
- Rapidly Respond to Business Needs:SharePoint 2010 makes it possible to shorten the time between understanding a business need and delivering business productivity solutions for it.
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Few of the major advantages of SharePoint 2010:
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- SharePoint 2010 allows non technical people to operate the platform all by themselves. Users are allowed to create websites and customize its features without developer support
- The most beneficial feature of the website, which enhances user experience, is the Ribbon. The Ribbon facilitates addition, modification, and interaction with content in SharePoint. It displays the options upfront instead of hiding it in menus.
- SharePoint 2010 has a true multi-lingual user interface. This allows end users to interact with the platform in the language of their choice after completing language packs installation and setting appropriate language on the sites.
- SharePoint reaps the benefit of an improved search experience through FAST. The results encompass SharePoint content as well as possibly show business data and people. The Rich People Search Function from SharePoint 2007 is added to SharePoint 2010.
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Comparison of MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010:
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| MOSS 2007 |
SharePoint 2010 |
| Does not support SilverLight |
SharePoint 2010 supports SilverLight without needing any additional configuration, along with SilverLight web part. |
| Business Data Catalogue (BDC) in MOSS 2007 gets data from external source (LOB Data) but data is read only. |
In SharePoint Server 2010, BDC is known as BCS (Business Connectivity Services). It allows read from and write to data, from external source (LOB Data). |
| Unable to integrate with Sandboxed Solutions. |
Site administrators can safely custom user code by using Sandboxed Solutions through SharePoint Server 2010. |
| Does not display Ribbon interface like MS Office 2007. |
SharePoint Server 2010 displays Ribbon interface allowing users to manage various options for applications upfront. |
| MOSS 2007 supports only internet explorer and not Firefox |
SharePoint 2010 supports both internet explorer as well as the 3.x versions of fire fox . |
| Some functionality including Multi-Select Document checkout /check –in, delete are present in the content and structure pages. |
The functionality such as Multi-Select Document checkout /check –in, delete Multi-Select Document checkout /check –in, delete in the available in Document Libraries. |
| Users cannot use PowerPoint themes to tweak the sites’ visual appeal |
In SharePoint 2010, users can change the site’s visual appeal with the help of PowerPoint themes. |
| Activity feed, profile picture and social feedback aren’t available on My Site |
Activity feed, profile picture and social feedback are available on My Site. |
| Users cannot use benefit from out of box Vision Web parts to deliver vision diagrams within browser. |
SharePoint 2010 users can deploy the out of the box Visio web parts to deliver Visio diagrams. |
| Folders cannot be used in 2007 |
SharePoint 2010 helps users organize metadata at folder level |
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SharePoint 2010 intends to offer improved experience with enhanced features and so there are various new features in it. Contact us at moss@softwebsolutions.com to leverage SharePoint 2010 and maximize your return on IT investment.
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