Essential SharePoint® 2007 focuses on utilizing Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 to improve collaboration and decision-making, streamline processes, and solve real-world business problems. Three leading SharePoint consultants systematically address the crucial success factors, intangibles, and "gotchas" in SharePoint deployment–showing exactly how to maximize business value and reduce project risk.
Drawing on their unsurpassed experience, the authors walk you through planning and architecting successful SharePoint solutions around the unique needs of your business. Next, they address the operational support and end-user functionality needed to make SharePoint 2007 work–with special attention given to the organizational and political issues that can make or break your project. Learn how to:
- Define optimal, workable collaboration strategies
- Build SharePoint applications people want to use
- Architect SharePoint infrastructure for superior performance, reliability, and value. Provide your customers with state-of-the-art sites, blogs, and wikis
- Use SharePoint content management to integrate documents, records, and Web content, and make it all searchable
- Implement forms-based workflow to optimize virtually any business process
- Quickly build business intelligence solutions using Web-base dashboards and server-based Excel Services
- Organize and staff SharePoint support teams
- Migrate efficiently from SharePoint 2003
Whether you're a project manager, consultant, analyst, line-of-business executive, or developer, this book helps you align your SharePoint project with your business strategy–and deliver quantifiable results fast.
Preface
Chapter 1 Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success
Chapter 2 Office SharePoint Server 2007: High-Impact Collaboration
Across the Extended Enterprise
Chapter 3 Introduction to the 2007 Office System as a Collaboration
and Solutions Platform
Chapter 4 SharePoint Architecture Fundamentals
Chapter 5 Planning Your Information Architecture
Chapter 6 Planning Your Move from SharePoint 2003 to 2007:
Upgrade or Rebuild?
Chapter 7 Disaster Recovery Planning
Chapter 9 Enterprise Content Management: Documents,
Records, and Web
Chapter 10 Enterprise Search
Chapter 11 Making Business Processes Work: Workflow and Forms
Chapter 12 Office 2007: Offline Options for MOSS 2007
Chapter 13 Providing Business Intelligence
Appendix A SharePoint User Tasks
Appendix B OS/Browser/Office Compatibility
Index
Scott Jamison is an expert on information worker technologies, collaborative applications, and software + services. He has more than 15 years of experience helping customers solve business problems through technology solutions, currently at Microsoft as Director of Enterprise Architecture. Scott has worked with SharePoint since 2001, recently participating as an architect on Microsoft’s developer advisory council helping design features for SharePoint Server 2007. Scott is a recognized thought leader and published author with several books, including Essential SharePoint 2007. Scott holds degrees in business and computer science.
Mauro Cardarelli is a recognized technology expert in Knowledge
Management and Business Intelligence-based solutions. He has over 18
years of experience in the IT industry, half of which have been spent working
as a Microsoft-focused technology consultant. He has worked with a
number of Fortune 500 companies, and his solutions have been mentioned
in multiple Microsoft case studies. In 2006, he founded Jornata
(www.jornata.com), a business and technology services provider that helps
companies achieve exceptional performance through the effective use of
Microsoft technologies. His primary responsibilities at Jornata include
application architecture and development as well as client-focused
technology evangelism. Mauro is a frequent speaker and author on
Microsoft-related technologies. He received a bachelor of science degree
in electrical engineering from Tufts University.
Susan Hanley is an independent consultant and president of her own
firm, Susan Hanley LLC (www.susanhanley.com), where she specializes
in the design and development of portal solutions and knowledge management
consulting. Sue has more than 25 years of experience as a technology
consultant, holding leadership positions at Dell, Plural, and American
Management Systems, Inc. (AMS). Sue served as a member of
Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council for Portals and Collaboration for
more than four years. She is a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of
building communities of practice and measuring the value of knowledge
management. In September 1997, she was recognized by Consultants
News as one of the key “knowledge leaders” at major consulting firms. Sue
has given top-rated presentations at many conferences in the United States
and Europe. Her byline articles have appeared in Knowledge
Management Review, Management Consultant International, DM Review,
Information Week, and The Cutter IT Journal. Sue is also a featured
author in several books on knowledge management. Sue has an MBA
from the University of Maryland at College Park and a BA in psychology
from Johns Hopkins University.
