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Welcome to the SharePoint 2010 Features and Capabilities demo. This is Part 1 of a five-part
video series on SharePoint 2010 key features and capabilities. Our goal is to provide you
and your teams with valuable information around what SharePoint is and how it can be used
to help you do your work more efficiently and effectively. It is important to note that
these videos do not provide training, or how-to instructions related to configuring or working
with your SharePoint sites and components. Instead, the videos provide information on
some of the key capabilities that SharePoint offers and how these capabilities can be leveraged
to support common business needs and scenarios. Detailed training is available via the SharePoint
Help site, which can be accessed from any SharePoint site by clicking the Help link
located in the banner at the top of the page. Training is broken down by the specific categories
displayed within the left-hand navigation pane. These training resources are constantly
being modified and updated, so check the Help site often, as you have specific questions
regarding how to set up, configure, and work with your SharePoSo, what is SharePoint? This
is a common question, and the answer can be complex and confusing, especially for users
who are new to the product. This is because SharePoint, often referred to as a “Swiss
army knife,” is an extremely broad product with a wide array of features and capabilities.
WikiPedia defines SharePoint as “a browser-based collaboration and document management platform,”
which is a tidy definition but ultimately doesn’t tell us much. int sites.In fact,
if you’re looking for a simple explanation of SharePoint, you could be looking for awhile.
That’s because SharePoint isn’t just one thing. It’s not a single program or application
– it’s a platform. It’s a collection of many different products and technologies,
all wrapped up and given a name. Think of learning SharePoint like learning Microsoft
Office. You don’t. You don’t really learn Office. You learn Word, then PowerPoint, then
Outlook, and so on. And in the same way, you don’t learn SharePoint. That’s because
it’s a massive, massive set of solutions of different things you can do with the platform.
As you learn the different things that SharePoint does, you’ll pick and choose your own combinations
of specific things that are meaningful to you, your team, and your business.
Out of the box, SharePoint provides a host of collaboration features and capabilities
that support users’ ability to share ideas, organize and manage information, ask questions
and get answers. In short, it supports users’ ability to find and share information required
to do their work. SharePoint 2010, the version available at FDA, is highly flexible and customizable
and integrates tightly with Microsoft Office 2010 products such as Word, PowerPoint, and
Excel. In addition to its out-of-the-box collaboration
features and capabilities, SharePoint also is an end-to-end development platform, where
IT developers can build custom solutions with and without code. We will not be spending
much time discussing SharePoint’s development features and capabilities in detail, but we
make mention of it because it’s important to understand the wide spectrum of things
that SharePoint can do.Our focus within this demo is on three areas of SharePoint features
and capabilities, including Collaboration, Business Process Automation, and Reporting.
From a business perspective, these are the areas where SharePoint out-of-the box features
are concentrated and where we think you’ll find the most compelling and effective uses
for the tool. In Part 5, we present and discuss a few of the more advanced features and capabilities
around custom application development, just to give you a taste of some additional things
SharePoint can do. To illustrate SharePoint 2010 features and
capabilities as part of this demo, we have created a demo site, called the ABC Team Site,
that has been preconfigured and that includes fictitious content and data. During the demo,
we will be spending quite a bit of time within the demo site itself, as we highlight various
features and capabilities. This concludes Part 1 of our five-part video series on SharePoint
features and capabilities. Part 2 focuses on SharePoint’s extensive collaboration
capabilities, including multiple features that support users’ ability to create, manage,
find and share information.