Microsoft Share Point - The SharePoint Wheel

The SharePoint Wheel

Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 marketing refers to the "SharePoint Wheel" to help describe what SharePoint's tools can facilitate inside organizations. The wheel refers to six outcomes:

• Sites: A site is a contextual work environment. Once SharePoint is configured, these sites can be created without any requirement for specialized knowledge. A context for a site may be organization-wide, or it may be specific to an individual team or group.
• Communities: A community is a place where communication and understanding happens. Communities can occur around any context, and will typically develop around either shared knowledge, or shared activities (such as collaboration).
• Content: SharePoint provides management of documents and work items that need to be stored, found, collaborated on, updated, managed, documented, archived, traced or restored - in accordance with relevant compliance or governance policies.
• Search: Look for relevant communities, content, people, or sites: search is based on keywords, refinement, and content analysis.
• Insights: Information from any part of the organization can be surfaced inside useful contexts, providing information that can improve effectiveness.
• Composites: SharePoint enables no-code integration of data, documents and processes to provide composite applications ("mash-ups" based on internal data).