Microsoft 2007 User Manual
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Quickly connect people and information
SharePoint Enterprise Search incorporates business data and information about people with
documents and Web pages to provide more comprehensive results. Tools for query hit
highlighting, duplicate collapsing, “did you mean” spelling correction, and alerts help users
locate what they want within search results.
Unlock business data
Out-of-the-box (OOB) connectors provide accessibility to data in SAP and Siebel systems.
With the Business Data Catalog, IT can create a pool of connections to business systems,
which can be reused easily by business users to create personalized, interactive views into
back-end data from browsers—all without writing any code.
Leverage your unstructured business networks to drive better decisions
Employees can use new knowledge management tools to get the most from their powerful
unstructured business networks, both inside and outside their organizations, by connecting
with people more quickly and efficiently. By exploring these undocumented business
relationships and finding subject matter experts, individuals can make better decisions more
quickly.
Work when and where you want
With offline access to SharePoint lists and document libraries, you can free yourself from the
limitations of corporate network connectivity.
Share Business Information Within and Outside Your
Organization
Organization
Simplify and help boost the security and efficiency of collaboration and knowledge sharing
within and across organizational boundaries.
Broadly share business data while helping to protect sensitive information
Excel Services running on Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides access to real-time,
interactive Microsoft Office Excel
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2007 spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these
spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version, while helping
to protect any proprietary information, such as financial models, embedded in documents.