Knowing Sharepoint 2010

Introduction

Before moving forward to the integration of Documentum with Sharepoints and available options to do so. Let's take a quick glance on the strengths of both the technologies.
Sharepoint and Documentum no doubt are the market leaders in their competency. Surely leverage the features of both and developing a Hybrid solution is what all companies
should look forward to. But of course, considering other factors like relevance, business need, market trends and budget etc.

Sharepoint as widely known as the collaborative tool for enterprise but also provides some of the best, out of the box features. These features range from Collaboration through blogs
to cross browser support to multi lingual support. And their is always an option for browser based customization like in Documentum Webtop based products, for tailor made solutions.

Table of Content

1. Features Overview of SharePoint 2010
2. What's new in SharePoint 2010
3. Conclusion

Features in Nutshell

Following are the features as described on Microsoft site on high level -

	Feature	Description
1	Access Services	Publish Access databases in SharePoint.
2	Accessibility	Use SharePoint more effectively with improved accessibility, including built-in support for keyboard navigation and support for industry-wide accessibility standards.
3	Blogs	Use the new SharePoint Ribbon to format blog text and easily upload images.
4	Browser-based Customizations	Customize pages and Web Parts to create Web sites that meet your specific business needs.
5	Business Connectivity Services	Work with external data, whether online or offline, in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications using Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly named the Business Data Catalog).
6	Business Intelligence Center	Use the examples in this dedicated SharePoint site template to help you get started with your Business Intelligence projects.
7	Colleague Suggestions	Keep your colleague network current with an automated service that suggests colleagues based on your reporting structure, communities membership, e-mail distribution lists, Office Communicator contact lists, and analysis of most common Office Outlook e-mail recipients.
8	Compliance Everywhere	Manage versions, apply retention schedules, declare records, and place legal holds, whether you're dealing with traditional content, Web content, or social content.
9	Contextual Search	Tailor different results and refinement options based on the profile of the user or audience.
10	Cross-Browser Support	Access SharePoint through Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
11	Dashboards	Create rich dashboards that convey the right information the first time, aggregating content from multiple sources and displaying it in a Web browser in an understandable and collaborate environment. Rich interactivity lets you to analyze up-to-the-minute information and work with the data quickly and easily to identify key opportunities and trends.
12	Decomposition Tree	Perform root cause analyses using powerful analytics to examine core data. View only the most pertinent information using the new Decomposition Tree.
13	Document Sets	Create a Document Set to manage related content as a single entity, speeding up common processes like RFP responses.
14	Metadata-driven Refinement	Use the new refinement panel in SharePoint 2010 to narrow the results of your search and find the right content faster.
15	Multilingual User Interface	Take advantage of out-of-the-box support for multilingual experiences in SharePoint 2010. Give your people language options in site navigation, menus, the SharePoint Ribbon, and customized list fields.
16	My Content	Centrally store and manage your documents, favorite links, personal blog, and wiki pages on the My Content section of your My Site. Customize your pages and set access and permission levels for any content in the section.
17	My Profile	Learn more about your colleagues with Profile pages. The My Profile page contains information about employees, including biographies, job titles, location, contact information, interests and skills, and previous projects.
18	Organization Browser	Navigate your organizational structure to see managers, peers, and direct reports.
19	Out-of-the-Box Web Parts	Use more than 40 out-of-the-box Web Parts to add functionality anywhere in a site with point-and-click simplicity.
20	People and Expertise Search	Search for people by name or by associated terms.
21	Photos and Presence	Help people recognize each other with photos. Use presence to email, IM, or call someone with the click of a button.
22	Ratings	Rate SharePoint pages, lists, libraries, and individual documents with a five-star rating system.
23	Recent Activities	Let people know what you're up to with the Recent Activities feed on your profile page.
24	Sandboxed Solutions	Maintain security and manage system performance with Sandbox Solutions. Sandbox Solutions separate code from other processes, improving the security and helping you control resources and prevent performance problems.
25	SharePoint Designer	Deliver no-code customizations with the new tools in SharePoint Designer, including List and Content Type editors, reusable workflows, XSLT templates, and external content types.
26	SharePoint Health Analyzer	Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems.
27	SharePoint Ribbon	Quickly and easily find and use relevant features with the new contextual SharePoint Ribbon.
28	Silverlight Web Part	Upload Silverlight XAP applications to a document library and use them immediately with the built-in Silverlight Web Part.
29	Streamlined Central Administration	Manage SharePoint 2010 more efficiently with a streamlined administration experience. Use the SharePoint Ribbon to configure and manage your server farm.
30	Tags	Classify and organize large amounts of information in your company by applying tags. Use standardized taxonomy tags defined by the organization and informal social tags defined by employees.
31	Unattached Content Database Recovery	Temporarily mount an unattached content database and browse content, back up a site collection, or export sites and lists without a recovery farm.
32	Visio Services	Publish Visio 2010 diagrams to SharePoint 2010 to let your people view and refresh diagrams in a browser without opening Visio. Integrate diagrams into other SharePoint applications and develop rich mash-ups.
33	Visual Upgrade	Upgrade to SharePoint 2010 but keep the SharePoint 2007 look-and-feel until you are ready to switch. View a site with the SharePoint 2010 user interface before committing to it.
34	Web Parts	Use Web Parts to add new functionality to SharePoint sites. Add a Web Part to any page, and a the new functionality will appear when the page is displayed.
35	Wikis	Create pages that combine the ease of wikis with the functionality of Web Parts.
36	Windows PowerShell Support	Achieve greater control and productivity with Windows PowerShell, a command line shell and scripting language. SharePoint 2010 offers a snap-in so you can take advantage of PowerShell for your SharePoint deployments and manage your server farm and automate tasks with out-of-the-box cmdlets.

The list is long about what SharePoint has to server, SharePoint really has come a long way from past versions. Let's take a look on what SharePoint 2010 has to offer -

1. Collaboration – Of course number one in the list is what SharePoint is know for Collaboration. It offers collaboration through integration with custom sites, newsfeeds etc.

2. External support – SharePoint uses model called BDC in SharePoint 2007 which now becomes BCS (Business Connectivity Services) in SharePoint 2010. It has better and easier system integration.This OOB feature enable users to connect to external data in a meaningful way. Users can now integrate third party applications and extract data
for their purpose.

3. SharePoint Offline Support – SharePoint now offers offline browsing support to previously cached content though not to 100%. But still we can get lists, and external lists offline.

4. SharePoint Designer Enhancements - The designer now support features like portable workflows, and granular delegation.

5. Sandbox Solutions – now solutions built from the SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio.

These are just the glimpse of SharePoint and its features. It for the Business to decide how much it wants to leverage from the available set.