Microsoft SharePoint 2010 : Architected for all forms of web scenarios

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that SharePoint Online has more than 1 million online users (and 7,000 partners). “SharePoint is more capable, more extensible, more Internet & cloud focused. It’s an amazing product.” , and yes SharePoint is no longer just an intranet solution, it’s been architected for all forms of web scenarios.

Here are few best features I captured about Microsoft SharePoint 2010

· “Ribbon” interface (in-context editing)

· "Visual web parts” (“no more hard-coding of web parts”)

· Supports development / design on Vista & Windows 7

· Access services (publish Access dbases through SP)

· New sandboxed solutions

· Integrated rich media & Silverlight

· Improved Visual Studio & SQL

· Upgrades from 2007 will include a complete migration of an existing home page design / UI to 2010

· Improved social computing (blogs, wikis, tagging, ratings, etc)

· Improved search algorithms and FAST Search integration

· New site scenarios for:
o Pricing analysis
o Hiring processes
o Citizen management (citizen portals)
o Project tracking
o Sales reporting
o Conference planning
o Delivery scheduling
o Compliance review sites

Now let’s brief about features:

SharePoint Sites
1.Rich User Experience

· Easy site editing, including theming & branding
· Office Ribbon UI for faster training & adoption
· Rich offline experience with SharePoint Workspace

2.Anywhere Access
· Mobile-based interaction with people and content
· Read-write web access using Office Web Application
· Cross-browser support for maximized participation

3.Single Platform
· Collaboration across Intranet, Extranet & Internet
· Improved interoperability with standards support
· Out-of-box accessibility compliance for WCAG 2.0

SharePoint Communities

1.Informal Knowledge
· Promote sharing with easy social authoring
· Easily navigate resources with pervasive tagging
· Find better answers faster via user feedback

2.Social Connections
· Connecting users through enhanced profiles
· Staying up-to-date using news feeds and alerts
· Make expertise discovery easy across the enterprise

3.Participation Anywhere
· Work with peers whether online or offline
· Collaborate on the go through the mobile UI
· Enrich existing applications with social context

SharePoint Content
1.User-centric
· Intuitive interaction with content through Office
· Fast discovery using content metadata and tagging
· Rapid creation and publishing of web content

2.Flexibility and Compliance
· Pervasive records management and legal holds
· Enterprise-wide taxonomies and folksonomies
· Cross-farm policies and rules for all content types

3.Management Efficiency
· Metadata and tagging managed by same services
· Less storage and bandwidth for Office & binary content
· Interoperability framework to link legacy repositories

SharePoint Search

1.Better Answers, Faster
· Improved relevance based on usage and history
· Rich results-navigators for shorter search time
· Support for 400+ content types and 85 languages

2.Knowledge Amplification
· Phonetic and multi-lingual for global relevance
· Social connections driven by interests and expertise
· Secure access to content, whether internal or external

3.Enterprise Deployment
· Improved scale to meet any demand volume
· Deployment-specific tuning for best results
· Search-driven applications to enrich platform

SharePoint Insights

1.Data interaction
· Advanced analysis with Excel Services
· Richer data visualization and easy sharing
· Incorporation of LOB data in data analysis

2.Decision Making
· Powerful Self-Service capabilities and visualizations
· Compelling dashboards to drive business results
· Rich reports with access to millions of rows

3.Organizational Effectiveness
· Drive accountability and alignment with scorecards
· Identify issues and opportunities with real-time access
· Improved API for richer extensibility and development

SharePoint Composites

1.User-Driven Solutions
· Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
· Process automation and data validation with Forms
· Visio services integration for data visualization

2.Data Connectivity
· Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
· LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
· SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs

3.Solution Deployment
· Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
· Platform stability with resource quota-management
· Standards support for integration and accessibility

SharePoint Composites

1.User-Driven Solutions
· Enhanced toolset for end-user solutions
· Process automation and data validation with Forms
· Visio services integration for data visualization


2.Data Connectivity
· Business Connectivity Services for LOB data exchange
· LOB data in Outlook, Word & Workspace without code
· SharePoint data exposed through web services & APIs


3.Solution Deployment
· Sandboxed Solutions for self-service and fast installation
· Platform stability with resource quota-management
· Standards support for integration and accessibility


Developer Investments

1.Developer Productivity
· Rapidly develop solutions with Visual Studio 2010
· Application Lifecycle Management & Team Dev
· Solution quality improved with debugging tools

2.Deployment Platform
· Rich solution UI with Silverlight, XSLT View, Clean HTML
· Data Foundation – Relationships, Lookup
· Better programmability with LINQ, Client API

3.Solution Hosting
· Standardized WSP Package Deployment
· SharePoint Online shared solution hosting
· Install on Vista SP1 or Windows 7 for Developers only