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Microsoft SharePoint Building Office 2003 Solutions
Microsoft’s Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) released to market in October 2003. One year later, over 30 million licensees owned SharePoint, making it the fastest-growing product in Microsoft history. This is an important fact, because it shows a serious commitment from Microsoft to SharePoint as an information worker solution platform. SharePoint is not intended to be some passing phase of technology that you might decide to use one day; rather, it represents Microsoft’s strategy to breathe new life into its suite of Office products. This strategy is critical to the company’s long-term growth and profitability.
Even though Microsoft has created a vast array of software products, the empire is really built on the Office suite. Familiar products such as Word, Excel, and Outlook have always been the true moneymakers for the company. Unfortunately, Microsoft has sold the Office suite to almost everyone on the planet who will ever buy it (and many who won’t buy it have simply stolen it). Faced with complete market saturation, Microsoft has historically tried to sell new versions of the Office suite by adding new features. At this point, however, few people see any value in some new fonts or templates, so Microsoft must look for new ways to add value. This is where SharePoint comes in.
Stop for a moment and think about working inside Word or Excel to create a document. These products, installed locally on your computer, are like enterprise rich-clients. However, when you’re using an Office product, you’re isolated from the rest of the organization—it’s just you and the document. In effect, the Office products are like clients with no server. This is certainly unusual for an enterprise application, which is normally supported by a back-end server and storage system. SharePoint is that server. In fact, I often describe SharePoint as the “Office Server.” It functions to connect all of the Office clients together, making the Office suite an enterprise application.
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