Collaboration using MOSS
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a
platform for sharing information and working together
in teams, communities and people-driven processes.
Office SharePoint Server is an important part of the
overall Microsoft collaboration vision and integrates
with other collaborative products to offer a comprehensive
infrastructure for working with others. The collaboration
features of MOSS allow you to improve team productivity,
author, review and publish documents & streamline
people driven business processes.
MOSS as a portal Site
Portal sites connect people to business applications,
give access to relevant information and provide a
platform to share relevant information with co-workers.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a world
class Enterprise Portal platform that makes it easy
to build and maintain portal sites for every aspect
of your business.
A portal site helps organization to connect its employees
& business associates to information and expertise,
connect to relevant business applications and role
specific resources.
MOSS based Enterprise Search
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an excellent
enterprise search solution for organizations that
want to increase productivity and reduce information
overload by providing their employees, partners, and
customers the ability to find relevant content in
a wide range of repositories and formats. With actionable
search results that respect security permissions,
MOSS 2007 lets users go beyond documents and across
repositories to unlock information, find people, and
locate expertise in the enterprise.
MOSS Based Enterprise Content
Management
Over a period of time, organizations create a huge
volume of unstructured content that includes documents,
e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages,
and more. This content is rarely stored in a structured
manner and prevents the organization from properly
using these valuable assets for better knowledge sharing,
improved customer communications, and increased process
efficiency. Built on a well-integrated platform, ECM
from Microsoft easily extends content management to
every information worker in the organization. A Microsoft
ECM solution can help businesses in Manage diverse
content, Satisfy compliance & legal requirements,
efficiently manage multiple Web sites, Streamline
business processes.
The ECM capabilities of MOSS include Document management,
record management, Web content management and providing
forms based data collection.
MOSS Based Business Process
Automation
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides built-in
workflow templates to automate approval, review, and
archiving processes. With Office SharePoint Server
2007, you can also create, maintain, and analyze custom
workflows, enabling you to streamline your collaborative
processes. Electronic forms provided through InfoPath
Forms Services are an integral part of such workflows.
These InfoPath designed electronic forms make it easy
to collect and validate information that drives your
business processes. And you can collect and validate
this information right from the Microsoft Office client
applications you use every day.
Solutions & Frameworks on Share Point Portal
1) WorXPace: WorXPace framework is targeted toward
Sales and Distribution oriented organizations in the
consumer packaged industry and their key customers
- Channel partners (Distributors). Users of this would
include Sales persons, Sales Managers / Directors,
Brand managers and channel partners. The worXPace
portal solution is very comprehensive in terms of
functionality taking care of their business transactions,
providing the relevant information at finger tips,
providing collaborative environment and provides appropriate
Information analysis (business intelligence). WorXPace
uses a variety of Microsoft tools and technologies
technologies to manage the flow of information through
numerous sales, marketing and Partner relationship
management processes. The result is improved sharing
of information, enhanced collaboration, better decision-making
and a more efficient approach to the entire distribution
processes.

The worXPace portal won the pan-Asian Microsoft Productivity
eXPerience Solutions Challenge (PESC) contest in 2002.
Organized by Microsoft, the contest was aimed at Microsoft's
ISV partners in the Asian region, providing an opportunity
to test the skills and readiness for the emerging
productivity solutions market.
2) Comprehensive B2B & B2C Portal for a leading
online Car Portal: Carhound, a leading player in UK
market, entrusted Sonata with the development of a
comprehensive portal for customer and affiliated dealers/distributors
related to cars. The solution had a major challenge
in terms of Integration with JATO car database and
other third party sites like Payment Gateway. The
solution was not only developed and deployed by Sonata
in record time but also won Customer Experience of
the year" at WWPC, Toronto, a global competition
held by Microsoft where Microsoft partners can present
only live solutions developed and deployed on MS technologies.
3) New Production Development cycle using Office 2007Linking
Office Systems into an ERP and collaborating information
flow across Office tools can certainly bring about
a big change in the way office systems are used. Given
that an Information Worker spends significant amount
of his/her time on Office systems, enabling them with
access to backend data and allowing them to analyze
and collaborate through Office systems improves information
reach and worker productivity. The 'New Product Development'
showcase application demonstrates a cross section
of Office 2007 features that can change the way information
works use Office tools.
'New Product Development' cycle addresses three functional
stages - Market Research, Product Design and Production.
Each of these stages has been implemented as departmental
portals using Office 2007 components. 'New Product
Development portal' addresses the below needs of business
users.
- Unified portal
- Tools to aid research and analysis
- Tools to aid decision making
- Tools to aid business process
- Business workflows
- Access to Line of Business application's data
through the portal