Whitepapers

Business Productivity at Its Best
Business Technology Simplified
The Business Value of Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010
Enabling Business Intelligence for everyone
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
Governance Guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
IT as a Service - Transforming IT with the Windows Azure Platform
Leveraging Cloud Storage with SharePoint
Meeting Compliance Objectives in SharePoint
SharePoint Marketing Suite
SharePoint Sever 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide
SharePoint Workflow Authoring in Visio Premium 2010
SharePoint 2010 Adoption Best Practices
SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 – Business Productivity at its Best
SharePoint 2010 Communities Business Value
SharePoint 2010 Composites
SharePoint 2010 Content Business Value
SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Guide
SharePoint 2010 Foundation Business Value
SharePoint 2010 Sites
SharePoint 2010 Usage Best Practices
SharePoint 2010 Walkthrough Guide
Total Economic Impact of Office 2010
Why Your Organization Needs to Implement Data Leak Protection

Whitepapers

Business Productivity at Its Best

This paper shows how Microsoft® Office, Microsoft SharePoint®, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Office Communications Server contribute to the powerful architectural design of the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI). The BPI stack approach suggests that only by thinking at a capability level (for example, “What do users want to do?‖), and then adding the right aspects of capability in each place (client, server, and services), can we create desktop applications that also deliver rich server and services capabilities to information workers.

This paper describes how the 2010 and 2007 versions of Office work together with the related business productivity servers: SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2010 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
The scenarios outlined in this paper show examples of how the power of the business productivity servers can be combined with capabilities of one or more Microsoft Office 2010 applications to deliver rich, intuitive, and easy-to-use capabilities directly into the hands of desktop users. The scenarios cover the following BPIO capabilities and value areas:

Best Productivity Experience across PC, Phone, Browser
Unified Communications
Business Intelligence
Enterprise Content Management
Collaboration
Unified Business Platform

Business Technology Simplified

In today’s business world, technology has a major impact on business success. And yet, for many small business owners, it can be a challenge to get technology to really work for the business.

Through the lens of 16 successful small business owners and leaders, this book provides you with a firsthand look at how simple, modern technology can make businesses more competitive and efficient. Find practical, useful advice on making smart technology decisions—whether you’re just starting out or your technology has grown alongside your business and you now need to simplify. Get new ideas on how to make better use of your time, from eliminating phone tag to keeping your business humming even when you’re on the road. And discover how technology can help you harness information to steer your business toward bigger profits and happier customers.

The Business Value of Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 is The Business Collaboration Platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower people through an integrated, rich set of features, that can be deployed in an Intranet, Extranet or Internet-facing solutions. Robust Business Intelligence capabilities within SharePoint 2010 help organizations manage and access both structured and unstructured data, providing you with the ability to empower your decision makers, improve organizational effectiveness, and enable IT efficiency.

Empower Decision Makers:Ability to create, access, and share information seamlessly and easily

Self Service: Empower all users to discover and manage their aspect of the business with the right information themselves, using only a browser
Work with Structured and Unstructured Information: Easily find and work with structured and unstructured information within the same environment
Share and Collaborate: Use familiar tools to create and share information seamlessly

Improve Organizational Effectiveness:Access the right information to translate strategy into action and enable accountability

Accountability: Manage, drive and define organizational success by aligning to key metrics and strategy with a single version of the truth
Transparency: Providing trusted access to the right information to the right people at the right time
Discoverability: Enabling users to find the right information across all data sources and content types

Enable IT Efficiency: Create and maintain the infrastructure to effectively drive BI to all users, inside and outside the firewall with SharePoint 2010

Enterprise-Ready Platform: Scale up and scale out with a highly available, secure, and interoperable platform with a unified architecture, inside and outside the firewall
Robust Infrastructure Investments: Ensure performance and increase reliability with powerful system management tools and features
Increased Developer Effectiveness: Easily create applications from a single development platform to meet changing business requirements

Enabling Business Intelligence for everyone

Microsoft Business Intelligence can uniquely overcome typical BI solution challenges such as cost, wide-scale adoption, and maintenance. By building on technology you typically already own, Microsoft Business Intelligence is the most cost-effective solution you can buy. But even for those customers who have made no investments in Microsoft products, they can receive business intelligence capabilities in addition to a full enterprise database platform for a fraction of the average cost of solutions from other BI vendors.1 And once implemented, Microsoft Business Intelligence can help you improve organizational performance by meeting your company’s individual, organizational, and IT information and analytical needs. Specifically, Microsoft Business Intelligence combines traditional BI with productivity and collaboration tools in order to:

   1. Empower your people with business insights
   2. Improve organizational effectiveness
   3. Drive IT and developer efficiencies

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

Every organization has unique search requirements. FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint has the capability to customize the search experience so that it fits how your business and your people work. Specifically, with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, you can:

Deliver results that are contextually relevant.
Search in the language of your business.
Tune relevancy to improve accuracy.
Customize the search platform to meet your specific indexing and search requirements.
Configure the user interface to customize the search experience for information workers.

Enterprise search solutions from Microsoft enable you to:

Provide users with results that are meaningful and dynamically tailored to their jobs, roles, and functions within the organization. This means that your sales teams will be quickly able to find product information, collateral, and answers to RFP questions, while your engineering teams will see specifications and requirements documents at the top of their results sets. Site administrators can tailor search quickly and easily to deliver contextually relevant results the first time.
Give users the ability to use terms and languages that are unique to your business. Most organizations frequently use a set of internal names, acronyms, or code words. These words can be confusing to different groups, outsiders, or new members of your organization. Users will be able to use their own terminology to sort, refine, and query your content. Furthermore, advanced language support provides your employees the ability to find content written in its native language.
Ensure that searches provide accurate ranking for relevant results. The major reason that a user continues to use a search engine is if it returns relevant information near the top of the search results. Microsoft search gets better with social ranking capabilities by promoting popular documents. Site administrators will quickly and easily be able to create and deploy new custom ranking algorithms that are tuned meet multiple business demands simultaneously.
Provide a great out-of-the-box experience to get search up and running quickly. Additionally, provide a platform that grows with your business needs so that you can
- Quickly access and crawl new content repositories.
- Add your users and business partners to the lists of extracted entities.
- Perform custom content processing such as sentiment analysis or machine translation.
- Tailor the user interface with custom SharePoint Web Parts or extend the ones that are available out of the box.

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint provides an enterprise search platform for fulfilling these aims. As a brief overview, FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint includes a connector framework that enables the crawler to index files and metadata from various types of content repositories. It also provides an indexing engine that stores the crawled data in an efficient manner in index files, and it provides query servers, query object models, and user interfaces for performing searches on the indexed data.

Governance Guide for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

This book provides guidance to help you determine the aspects of a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 deployment to govern and the governance techniques to use.
Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guide, direct, and control how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals. A comprehensive governance plan can benefit your organization by:

Streamlining the deployment of products and technologies, such as SharePoint Server 2010.
Helping protect your enterprise from security threats or noncompliance liability.
Helping ensure the best return on your investment in technologies, for example, by enforcing best practices in content management or information architecture.

What should be governed?
Every organization has unique needs and goals that influence its approach to governance. For example, larger organizations will probably require more — and more detailed — governance than smaller organizations.
A successful SharePoint Server 2010 deployment requires the following elements:

Information architecture
IT Service hosting SharePoint Server
Customization policy
Branding
Training

IT as a Service - Transforming IT with the Windows Azure Platform

To Microsoft, cloud computing represents a transformation of the industry in which we and our partners such as Atidan work to deliver IT as a Service. This transformation will let you focus on your business, not on running infrastructure. It will also let you create better applications, then deploy those applications wherever makes the most sense: in your own data center, at a regional service provider, or in our global cloud. In short, IT as a Service will let you deliver more business value.
To make this transformation possible, Microsoft provides the Windows Azure platform, complementing our existing Windows Server platform. Together, these two platforms allow enterprises, regional service providers, and Microsoft itself to deliver applications across private and public clouds with a consistent identity, management, and application architecture. By increasing business value and lowering costs, this foundation for IT as a Service will transform how organizations use information technology.

Understanding IT as a Service
To think about IT today, we need to start with the cloud. It’s common to divide cloud computing into three categories:
   1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which provides flexible ways to create, use, and manage        virtual machines (VMs).
   2. Platform as a Service (PaaS), focused on providing the higher-level capabilities—more than        just VMs—required to support applications.
   3. Software as a Service (SaaS), the applications that provide business value for users.

Leveraging Cloud Storage with SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint has quickly become the main location for content within many organizations. This leads to a significant increase in cost as all SharePoint content is stored within a Microsoft SQL database as a BLOB. StoragePoint provides the means for an organization to externalize this content to a location outside of the SQL database such as a file system, SAN, or even a cloud storage provider.

Cloud storage platforms can provide significant reduction in cost for IT departments by offloading the acquisition cost and monthly operating cost to the cloud storage provider. Using StoragePoint to externalize content to a cloud storage platform can help an organization free content that would normally be constrained in a SQL database and leverage a cloud storage vendor to reduce their overall storage costs and footprint within the organization. This paper examines the benefits and barriers that an organization can expect to face when leveraging a cloud storage platform.

Meeting Compliance Objectives in SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies has empowered organizations to realize unprecedented levels of productivity and efficiency, but its adoption also presents distinct compliance-related challenges. The very characteristics of the platform that make it such a potent and popular business tool – its ease of use and propensity for ‘bottom-up’ growth – make the implementation of compliance initiatives both critically important and uniquely challenging.

This document will first briefly review the general principles underlying today’s regulatory and legal environment, then analyze how these principles can translate to concrete SharePoint compliance strategies. Though the regulatory framework today’s organizations face is dynamic and can vary by both country and industry, we can – for our purposes here – benefit from analyzing the entire regulatory ecosystem through the prism of the five major regulations that govern much of today’s business and civic activity.

We will then analyze SharePoint’s native capabilities to meet these compliance obligations, reviewing both the out-of-the-box tools and the procedures by which administrators can implement these tools to meet compliance demands. To help elucidate these procedures, we will walk through several compliance-related tasks organizations often face, highlighting best practices as well as potential hurdles.

Finally, we will review strategies organizations can adopt to streamline and optimize their compliance initiatives. We will briefly analyze the financial and legal cost/benefit of such strategies, and using our common compliance tasks as examples, describe how organizations might utilize these tools to achieve a more robust, efficient, and manageable compliance strategy.

SharePoint Marketing Suite

The SharePoint Marketing Suite provides an additional layer to SharePoint with unique marketing services and tools. Specifically designed for SharePoint environments, CardioLog provides true and insightful marketing and analytic information based on SharePoint’s hierarchy, taxonomy, content and user metadata. The SharePoint Marketing Suite allows one to control and monitor website activity, business processes and knowledge management. Customs can maximize ROI from website investments by assuring that the website and its connected applications are functioning in an optimal manner. With the SharePoint Marketing Suite, there is no need to edit any source code or deploy complicated modues; hence, it enables customers to easily use the best of breed web marketing solutions on the market. It is also a middleware platform for implementing and integrating third party marketing services and tools for SharePoint websites and portals..

SharePoint Sever 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide

The general aims of enterprise search solutions are to:

Ensure that enterprise data from multiple systems can be indexed. This includes collaborative data stored in SharePoint sites, files in file shares, Web pages in other Web sites, third-party repositories, and other line-of-business systems such as CRM databases, ERP solutions, and so on.
Ensure that content from multiple enterprise repositories systems can be searched both independently and from within the context of your business applications. Ideally, users who perform searches with enterprise search user interfaces should be able to see results from SharePoint sites, files in file shares, pages from other Web sites, and data in custom business solutions. This also means that users do not need to know where the data is, before they start searching.
Ensure that searches provide accurate ranking for relevant results, if you expect users to adopt and use those search capabilities. The major reason that a user continues to use a search engine is if it returns relevant information near the top of the search results. Similarly, the major reason that a user stops using a search engine is if it does not return relevant results, or if those relevant results are not immediately visible because of poor relevance ranking.
Ensure that your enterprise search solution identifies people and expertise within your organization. At a minimum, users should be able to search for names of other members of their organization to obtain contact information and availability. Ideally, users should be able to express interest in topics or functional areas of your business and find experts who regularly contribute or provide thought leadership. Your search solution should automatically build out your user profiles from interactions with your regular business systems, including e-mail and your content repositories.

SharePoint Server 2010 provides an enterprise search platform for fulfilling these aims. As a brief overview, SharePoint Server 2010 includes a connector framework that enables the crawler to index files, metadata, and other types of data from various types of content repositories. It also provides an indexing engine that stores the crawled data in an efficient manner in index files, and it provides query servers, query object models, and user interfaces for performing searches on the indexed data. SharePoint Server 2010 also provides powerful relevance ranking features that are designed to provide relevant results for searches over enterprise content and data.

SharePoint Workflow Authoring in Visio Premium 2010

Microsoft Visio has long been the tool of choice for documenting processes. Ever since the introduction of workflow support in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, we have been hearing from customers, “wouldn’t it be great to visualize SharePoint workflows in Visio like flowcharts? Wouldn’t it also be great to go from Visio business process diagrams to executable workflows on SharePoint?”
Since then, the Visio team and the Microsoft SharePoint Designer team have partnered to enhance the workflow authoring experience. In Visio Premium 2010, SharePoint workflows can be authored as a flowchart and exported to SharePoint Designer 2010. For business analysts who are used to defining business processes in Visio, it means there is now an easy way to translate business logic in Visio to workflow rules in SharePoint Designer.

Workflows authored in SharePoint Designer 2010 can also be imported into Visio Premium 2010. For IT professionals who have been implementing SharePoint workflows in SharePoint Designer, it means there is now an alternative way to present these workflows in a visual representation for documentation and for sharing with a broader audience.

This whitepaper gives an overview of how Visio Premium 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 together enable easier workflow authoring and tracking. It also includes detailed tips for working successfully between Visio and SharePoint Designer.

SharePoint 2010 Adoption Best Practices

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a vast number of capabilities that empower business users. For example, SharePoint Server 2010 enables users to collaborate on documents with each other, tag and rate content, self-publish, track group projects, and even develop their own productivity solutions. However, even with this amount of power in hand, users (and the organizations they work for) can benefit greatly from having a clear SharePoint Adoption Plan. Why? Because SharePoint is often something that users can benefit from, but don‟t necessarily have to use to get their job done.
A SharePoint Adoption Plan describes how the benefits of your SharePoint deployment will be communicated to users and what kind of training you‟ll provide. An adoption plan helps you establish the following:

Power Users and Influencers who can “peer coach” fellow users
A plan for Communications and Buzz
A Comprehensive Training Plan

In this white paper, you will learn how to plan, organize, and create your adoption plan. We'll also provide some examples of how to integrate your governance plan into the training and communications plans for your solution.

SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 – Business Productivity at its Best
This paper shows how two products, Microsoft® Office and Microsoft SharePoint®, contribute to the powerful architectural design of the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI). The BPI stack approach suggests that only by thinking at a capability level (for example, “What do users want to do?”), and then adding the right aspects of capability in each place (client, server, and services), can we create desktop applications that also deliver rich server and services capabilities to information workers.

The scenarios outlined in this paper show examples of how the power of SharePoint 2010 and related servers can be combined with capabilities of one or more Microsoft Office 2010 applications to deliver rich, intuitive, and easy-to-use capabilities directly into the hands of desktop users. The scenarios cover the following value areas.

Collaboration Without Compromise
Bring Ideas to Life
Anywhere Access
The Practical IT Platform

SharePoint 2010 Communities Business Value
In the information workplace of today, a convergence of trends is changing the way we work together.

Younger people familiar with a whole new generation of social computing software are entering the workforce. People are more mobile, and businesses are more global than ever before. The speed with which business gets done and decisions are made is becoming faster and faster. Businesses find themselves working with partners, customers and other external organizations more and more often.

As well as these trends, an increasing body of business data supports the belief that better collaboration drives better 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. Studies show that highly engaged employees get more done, have more ideas, and stay with the company longer. Engaged employees also build stronger customer and colleague relationships. More engaged employees are more valuable employees in many ways.

This paper also offers a few key considerations and strategies for planning and implementing a corporate social network or community in a way that supports your business objectives.
The ultimate goal is to build a work environment that is more valuable to your organization.

SharePoint 2010 Composites

SharePoint® Composites, the newest set of capabilities in Microsoft® SharePoint Server 2010, enables do-it-yourself collaborative solutions that are manageable by IT.

1) First, SharePoint Composites enables you to rapidly create collaborative solutions by assembling, connecting and configuring the building blocks of functionality available in SharePoint, via browser-based tools, or advanced no-code tooling in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010, or through Visio® Services and Access® Services which help users share diagrams and desktop database applications using SharePoint.

2) Second, it allows you to unlock the value of your enterprise data through Business Connectivity Services, which helps users connect with enterprise systems and interact with them as easily as with traditional SharePoint data, or directly in the rich experience of Microsoft Word 2010, Microsoft Outlook® 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. It provides search, read and write capabilities, whether offline or when connected.

3) Finally, SharePoint Composites helps your teams of IT professionals maintain control over the platform, allowing them to centralize desktop-based applications, manage custom code with sandboxed solutions and to maintain operational insight with health monitoring and controls.

SharePoint Composites allows your organization to derive more value from existing and future IT investments, from those made on SharePoint to those made on your own enterprise systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and on other proprietary applications. SharePoint Composites enables business users to repurpose those building blocks of functionality and reassemble them into new and interesting solutions, allowing IT to focus on delivering the high-priority projects that only IT can build. And because these end-user solutions are managed on a unified central platform, IT teams benefit from simplified operations and improved service levels.

SharePoint 2010 Content Business Value
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has become a key business priority for most organizations. The amount of business information created and shared is increasing in size and speed every day, government compliance requirements are becoming more stringent, and key business tasks require accurate and fast access to records, documents, and other information. Without content management, information becomes chaos – unmanaged, not searchable, and processes rely more on employee institutional memory than technology. Additionally, users waste time looking for or recreating documents and information, and businesses may pay penalties for documents and information that are accidentally lost or released publicly.

Most business executives recognize the need for a robust ECM solution, but most traditional ECM offerings only provide comprehensive, mission-critical content management designed for a small set of users (working with a team, department, or content type) and focus on security and compliance over usability and collaboration. Enterprise Content Management with Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 delivers both a high quality solution that stimulates and delivers user participation, and the tools for highly secure, well-managed content.

SharePoint Server 2010 enables companies to democratize content management and improve organizations by providing content management to all employees and compliance across all documents. This leads to better, faster, and more secure processes that can be managed through a familiar environment, integrated into business collaboration infrastructure, and built on a trusted and extensible platform. With ECM in SharePoint Server, you can.

Drive participation - Avoid chaos and end-user resistance
Ensure Compliance - Avoid risk by controlling unmanaged content, including Social content
Save Costs - Avoid high costs of point solutions, especially where not needed.

SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Guide
For technical and business decision makers

SharePoint 2010 helps people work together in new and effective ways with a rich set of six integrated capabilities areas. Using SharePoint, people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.
Sites
SharePoint 2010 Sites provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web sites. Share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and publish information to customers.
Communities
SharePoint 2010 Communities delivers great collaboration tools—and a single platform to manage them. Make it easy for people to share ideas and work together the way they want.
Search
SharePoint 2010 Search cuts through the clutter. A unique combination of relevance, refinement, and social cues helps people find the information and contacts they need to get their jobs done.
Content
SharePoint 2010 Content makes content management easy. Set up compliance measures ”behind the scenes”—with features like document types, retention polices, and automatic content sorting—and then let people work naturally in Microsoft Office.
Insights
SharePoint 2010 Insights gives everyone access to the information in databases, reports, and business applications. Help people locate the information they need to make good decisions.
Composites
SharePoint 2010 Composites offers tools and components for creating do-it-yourself business solutions. Build no-code solutions to rapidly respond to business needs.

SharePoint 2010 Foundation Business Value
This paper describes how Microsoft® SharePoint® Foundation 2010 is the next step forward for the Microsoft fundamental collaboration technology framework, Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0. An overview of SharePoint Foundation 2010 as the essential solution for organizations that want a secure, manageable, Web-based collaboration platform is provided. Specific benefits for information workers, IT professionals, and developers are described. And for organizations that want a more feature-rich solution, an overview of SharePoint 2010 is included.

SharePoint 2010 Sites

SharePoint 2010 helps organizations and users improve efficiencies and effectiveness by enabling them to better manage their information sharing. The Sites capability of SharePoint 2010 serves as a “one-stop shop” for all of an organization’s business Web sites. Whether a team site for employees, an extranet site for partners, or an Internet site for customers, users can share and publish information using one familiar system. SharePoint 2010 Sites helps organizations and users to:

Easily Share & Publish Information: Building a SharePoint site is simple. Several out-of-the-box features provide instant value by helping a site owner build the first page right away, as well as change content, add interaction, or apply a design theme. Novice or expert, anyone can quickly create, customize, and publish a site that looks great and meets their business needs.
Deliver Personalized Experiences: SharePoint 2010 Sites allows users to receive and work with the content they need in ways that work best for them. Features such as Audience Targeting, multilingual interface support, and Tagging provide a highly customized Web experience for diverse users across workforces.
Ensure Broad Adoption: SharePoint Sites are as easy to use as they are to make. That’s because SharePoint 2010 Sites work so well with the productivity tools workers use most. The new Office Web Applications make it a snap to work with Microsoft Office documents directly in SharePoint sites. End users can take their SharePoint data offline with SharePoint Workspace and synchronize changes just by reconnecting to parent networks. SharePoint 2010 also offers increased cross-browser support and a great mobile experience, allowing anyone to access and share content, whether in the office or on the road.

SharePoint 2010 Usage Best Practices

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a vast number of capabilities that empower business users. For example, SharePoint Server 2010 enables users to collaborate on documents with each other, tag and rate content, self-publish, track group projects, and even develop their own productivity solutions. In short, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for people to work together. With all of this power, sometimes it‘s hard to know exactly which feature or function to use in a given scenario, or what‘s the recommended approach for solving a specific collaboration need. This paper provides best practices for SharePoint usage and answers questions like:

What collaboration methods and site templates are most appropriate for which types of situations?
What should I ask myself before setting up a SharePoint site?
How should I manage content?
Should I consider a document‘s lifecycle before posting it to SharePoint?
What should I think about when tagging?
What‘s the correct etiquette for social interactions?

In this white paper, you will learn how to manage content effectively, how to choose the best option for displaying content, and the most effective way to find your content later.

SharePoint 2010 Walkthrough Guide
Companion to the SharePoint 2010 Evaluation Guide

SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform of choice for the enterprise and the Internet. For every business scenario in which people need to interact with other people, with content and information, or with line-of-business data, the SharePoint 2010 platform includes a rich set of integrated capabilities that are ready to be used out-of-the-box, but can also be customized to address specific business needs and integrated with other products and solutions. The SharePoint 2010 platform can be deployed both inside the enterprise (intranets) and outside of the firewall (extranets, Internet) to enable interaction with employees, customers and business partners by using the same set of capabilities and tools.

SharePoint 2010 helps you to:
Deliver the best productivity experience by letting people work together in ways that are most effective for them. Whether through the PC, browser, or mobile phone, SharePoint Server 2010 offers an intuitive and familiar user experience and enables people to collaborate effectively within the their current work context. These capabilities are significantly enhanced by the way SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 work together, enabling users to be more productive while using products and tools they are familiar with.
Cut costs with a unified infrastructure that offers enterprise-scale manageability and availability. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint Server 2010 lowers total cost of ownership by offering an integrated set of features and by allowing organizations to consolidate their business-productivity solutions on top of SharePoint Server. This leads to a reduction in costs related to maintenance, training and infrastructure management.
Rapidly respond to business needs with dynamic and easily deployed solutions. Whether it’s an end user, a power user or a professional developer, SharePoint Server 2010 offers the tools and capabilities to design and create business solutions that can be integrated with existing enterprise data, tools, and processes.

Total Economic Impact of Office 2010

Individual productivity and team collaboration have become critical competencies of organizations that are successful and competitive in their markets. As organizations build their competitive positions based on the skills and talents of their knowledge or information workers (iWorkers), better tools are required to make those key resources more efficient and effective. Timely access to information, expertise, organizational wisdom, and communities that can drive innovation and efficiency will be hallmarks of well-run organizations in the new economy.

Most iWorkers in large organizations use Microsoft Office as their main productivity software and find it adequate for their needs. Therefore organizations need compelling reasons to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2010. New Features can be interesting, but unless they translate into customer benefits — such as increased productivity, automated functions that replace manual ones, or new capabilities of the software — the incentive to upgrade will be diminished. Those benefits must also exceed the barriers to adoption that exist — such as the price of the software or lost productivity due to the time spent learning the new software programs — in order for the upgrade to make sense.

In March 2010, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact that enterprises may realize by upgrading from Microsoft Office 2007 to Microsoft Office 2010. To understand the financial impact of investing in the latest version of Office, Forrester conducted in-depth interviews with executives from seven Microsoft Office 2010 beta customers. Forrester then compiled the interview results, including forward-looking expectations, into a composite case study of a 5,000-iWorker Organization. See the Composite Organization Description section for more details.

Why Your Organization Needs to Implement Data Leak Protection

Outbound content sent from any communications tools or stored on laptops and removable storage devices must be monitored and managed in order to minimize risk and to ensure that the content is appropriate and in compliance with an organization’s policies, statutory obligations and industry best practices. Organizations should monitor all avenues through which employees may communicate, including email, instant messaging systems, wikis, blogs, personal Webmail accounts, USB devices, message boards and other tools. The appropriate policies should be established and systems should be deployed so that an organization’s risk can be mitigated to the extent possible.