SharePoint 2010 Communities Overview

SharePoint 2010 Communities: Work Together Effectively

As part of the 2010 release, SharePoint Communities provides a comprehensive, flexible platform that empowers people to work together in ways that are most effective for them. Allow your people to collaborate in groups, share knowledge and ideas, connect with colleagues, and find information and experts naturally.

Work Together the Way You Want

The global workforce of the twenty-first century is more diverse than ever. Connect and engage all of your employees with a flexible collaboration platform and a diverse set of tools that range from Wikis to Workflows to Workspaces—allowing people to work together the way they want.

Rely on a Secure Collaboration Platform

Let your IT staff rely on an enterprise-ready collaboration platform that is secure and easy to manage and will support your organization’s growing needs. SharePoint 2010 makes social safe with granular security and privacy controls, centralized management and policy setting, and robust reporting and analysis.

Extend the Value of Your Community Solutions

The SharePoint platform seamlessly integrates with the rest of the Microsoft Business Productivity infrastructure, including the Office applications, Exchange Server, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, and Dynamics. In addition, SharePoint provides Business Connectivity Services and adheres to open standards and protocols, making it easy to integrate third-party applications.

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People Working Together Drive Business Results

This paper examines the value organizations can gain from enhancing their collaborative environment with corporate social computing capabilities. Not only does better collaboration in the form of business communities enable people to work more efficiently, it engages them more fully in the work they do.

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